Hellgate: London (PC Games, 2007)

This game is better than I expected. It has kept my 16 yr old son entralled with it now for several weeks now. Looks like he'll be playing it for a good while to come. The biggest drawback to this game is that once you've installed it on your computer, it cannot be installed again on any other computer. The game automatically registers itself during install and renders the cd key invalid, so make sure you install it on a computer that you pan to keep up and running for a while. I'm a overclocker that's used to doing fresh os installs quite often and this throws a wrench in my usual way of doing things.

So far this game is just what was needed for us DIABLO fans, controls are a little different but still fun.

for all the hype before the launch of Hellgate, I expected alot better Graphics engine. If your into RPG's it will be a fun game for you to play.

well, I heard a lot about this game but...... I wasnt overly impressed. and for the money when you buy it in the store for 49.95 its nothing like bioshock which is a awsome game for the same price.

Many people have panned this game as badly written & excessively buggy - whilst the game on release was buggy, subsequent patches have increased reliability and smoothed gameplay so its at a more than acceptable level.
The game itself is unbelievable fun and almost addictive -there is new content - such as the Stonehenge Chronicles, with another new major area due out soon.
I love this game, its great fun, but for me the community is what makes it so special.
Character progression is easy to get to grips with, and the game itself is fun, especially if you love finding new items. With other modes such as hardcore and Elite, which are harder to master but more rewarding in terms of loot and experience there is a lot of re playability, not to mention the 6 different classes - which may increase with other updates.
The only reason i haven't given this game a maximum "Excellent" score is that the single player game is lagging very much behind the multi player (I suggest if its possible - if you want single player just play online on your own), and the European support isn't good. I myself play on the US servers.
Give it a go, you may well find yourself immersed in the "just one more level"/"I just need to find a "special loot here"" experience

Well first off my friend bought it and said it was like diablo 1 and 2 and i played both of them since they came out. The game has its good points and bad points. The game play is ok but its bad when the guns don't run out of any ammo. Game play and Quests arent that bad could be better but decent. I can go on about the goods and bads about the game but ima leave it as a decent average game.

Great mesh of FPS style game with the RPG / MMO worlds. You will not find yourself getting borded with this game. The maps/dungeons are dynamic!!!

The first person shooter style of control leaves you with a feeling like you really have more control of your actions in the game rather than selecting a target and hitting some buttons to fire off your attacks.

In Hellgate: London, you have to use some skill with aiming, hit and run tatics and much more....

Check this game out at www.hellgatelondon.com

This game is like a more modern version of Diablo 2, good gameplay, all classes capable of soloing and grouping, the economy on the US server isn't bad, but the only bad part is that there's no Deckard Cain :P

didn't like much of anything about the game. wouldn't waste my money a second time if I had the choice-

I loved that it is a 1st Person RPG! It had loads of new features. I loved the open world gameplay. The graphics were spectacular! One of the greatest new RPGS at an amazing price!

I've only played a few hours of this game so far, but so far it seems alright. It doesn't go out of it's way to be original, you just beat up monsters and look for better equipment. At least you can break down the stuff you find into components to improve weapons later so you don't have to constantly warp home so sell your loot. First person view only works with guns and my character is a melee type so not really impressed with that. At least the gameplay is solid and I haven't gotten stuck on a polygon edge yet so I'm gonna go chop up a few more demons now.

a few glitches ruin an otherwise perfect game. most people mention a memory leak glitch however the one that annoys me the most is falling through the zone causing it to reset

This game has been one of the best games to come out for PC in a while. The ability to play as third or first person is awesome. Different weapons for different classes of character are excellent. I actually have three different characters playing at once just to experience those different weapons and skills you can gain.
If you love gaming this would be an excellent purchase for you.

If I knew that this game was so much fun, I would have bought it when it first came out. With the servers down and the developer defunct, you can only play single player mode. However, I rarely do on-line play, so this is not a problem for me.

You will need to google for the SP 1.2 patch.

This game is pretty much fun right out of the box. I enjoyed this game from start to finish. I thought the graphics for 2007 were at the top of the charts for its relase date. The gameplay is smooth and the monsters you have to battle are well designed. Overall this is a FPS that allows for custom characters who do anything from close combat, magic, to long range specialities. You cant go wrong with this game for the prices that its selling for on e-bay. Warning however!!!!!! I would only buy new sealed copies of this game so that you can register your product for online play. If you get a used copy, you will only have access to the single player game.

Really there are only 2 problems.
1. Buggy-prone to crashing, even on my finely tuned Gateway FX.
2. No multi-player-servers are permanently down

Im am goin to explain why the servers are down. The game failed at release...reason? A bunch of stubborn old gamers decided that this was diablo 3, even though blizzard stated this IS NOT DIABLO 3...so what happened? They opened the box, played it, and realized its not diablo 3 and then started crying. It received bad reviews for not being Diablo 3...which is understandable since ITS NOT DIABLO 3. to bad the game wasn't reviewed for being HGL, or else the servers would still be up.

QQ more noobs, buy this game if you like diablo style "RPGs" pffft

Kevin

This game rocks! The graphics are astounding! The FPS view was done in way that makes you feel as close to the action as possible. They sure knew what they were doing when they created this beauty. The gameplay is one of the best I've seen and very intuitive.

Game was in great shape, it had hardly any signs it was ever used at all!! Came complete with book. Even though it didnt work online (the discription said it might not) it was a great buy. Quick shipping, came within a couple of days.

It's not Doom, it's not crysis, it's pure fun.
You get to kill monsters, invite and use your own, you can interact, play online and have a lot of fun.

my kids are 11 and 9 years old, and can not stop playing this game.

graphics are nice and smooth, game play is easy to follow.
overall We (me and the kids) recommend this game and give it 5 out of 5.

I liked that I couldn't play it. There are many things about this game I could have written about but I could not get it to run.

The game is great, the only things I don't like about it are.....

1. no co-op via network
2. you have to have your own disk to have an online account to play co op

A long awaited replacement for the Diablo games, and about time it is too! Well worth $20....wouldn't pay any more for it. If you are familiar with the Diablo games, you'll be quite comfortable with this game. Not a steep learning curve required to start playing. But....here come the "but's":

I play as single player, and only have dial up connection. Don't even try to play the game until you've downloaded the patch - I did - with major frustration. Only to get to the final level, kill all five mega monsters, and then find out the game didn't give me credit for killing them. And it took me hours to get 'em all! (What with all the bugs and all.) So why didn't I download the patch sooner? Well, I'm on dial up remember? And the "patch" is 185.94 MB. Yeah, MegaBytes. Took me 3 days, and I had to use a downloader program to get it, as I kept getting "timed out" and kicked off the download server. That's a biggie on my complaint list. But the patch seems to work nicely, no problems since installing it, haven't run into the former bugs that were so prevalent before. So absolutely positively, get the game, install it, then get the patch. It'll save you tons of headache and heart ache.

Next complaint - no real advice on tweaking the tons of settings you can tweak - and in my case, had to tweak, to get the game to play properly in the first place. The default settings just didn't work well with my not-top-of-the-line graphics card, and I didn't have any success in finding out what I could do, short of getting a new card. When I first attempted to play, the graphics were so choppy that it was impossible to play....and searching for solutions was leading me to buying a different graphics card, and downloading and installing tons of huge files....all on dial up. Fortunately, I did finally tweak in to settings that work well with my system. Mostly by intuition. Turns out my graphics card works wonderfully for this game - once I'd lowered all the settings to fit my system.

Third complaint - no good walk thrus are available yet, at least not without "buying" someone else's guide! There are some partial ones out there, and they helped me in a couple of tight spots, where advancing seemed impossible, and I was wondering if I had hit some fatal bug! But so far, the guides I've found online aren't complete - they don't carry you completely thru the game.

Next complaint - upgrading your weapons and armor. I've lost track of the number of times I've upgraded stuff, only to find out I upgraded my way right out of it - couldn't even use the stuff until my next "promotion". Or two. So use caution when upgrading, adding attributes, etc.

And then there's a complaint I had with all the Diablo games, and that seems to have been kept in this game. At higher levels, some of the monsters are way too easy to kill, and others are way too hard. Seems like there should be a better way to curve the effort required, so that the challenges rise smoothly, rather than "one blow kills this one, 50 kills that one".

Playing on Vista home premium edition, with service pack 1. AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor 3600+ 1.90 GHz. 32 bit operating system. NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE (which is less than what is recommended for this game, but after tweaking settings, is getting me along just fine.)

Despite my complaints, I love the game! Well worth $20 bucks or so - IF you get the patch!

The game is great, and very addictive. i would recommend this game to anyone who likes fps, and the fans of Diablo.