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Hellgate: London Review (continued)
More User Submitted Hellgate: London Reviews
Date: 2008-08-24
They kinda went out of business
So I get the game and go to the website to sign up and see a post that basically they were going out of business. So I wait a day or so and they shut down the forums. I returned the game.
Date: 2008-08-14
Let Down
I had waited months for this game to come out...and when it did I sorta wish it never had. At least then I could remain blissfully ignorant of the quality (or lack there of) of this game. I put about 15 hours into the game hoping it would improve, but the game play was so repetitive and lackluster that I decided enough was enough.
I admit the concept was good and the potential was there, but in the end, for me, it was extremely boring. A big waste of $50.
Date: 2008-08-13
save your money
first of, stop by their official forums and browse the tech support section. this game, even now allmost a year after release is plagued with problems.
i have a Radeon HD 4870, 4G ram, intel core 2 duo processor, SATA raid, I can run the game on full graphics modes with no lag, but textures are missing, i can't deconstuct an item, random crashes.
I'm forced to lower settings to low in order to play the game, which makes everything look crappy.
I can run Oblivion full settings smooth as butter, this goat of a game, no.
Tech Support over at hellgate forums consists of two things
1.) They want your dxdiag output
2.) they tell you to uninstall/reinstall your video drivers and the game, even when you explain that EVERYTHING works fine except for hellgate
Also check Google for "Flagship Studios" and see what the company itself has been doing. They've laid off most of the developers, it's a bad situation.
They've taken away the option to 'subscribe' to premium service b/c they simply can't support it.
Date: 2008-08-12
Overhyped, Underrated
I feel bad for Flagship Studios. As a programmer in the games industry, I know how hard it is to make a game. I know how long it takes. I know how brutal the PC industry is. I first saw "Hellgate: London" at E3 in 2005. I thought it looked like it had a lot of potential. I then saw it again at E3 2006, and thought it looked pretty much the same. I forgot about it for a while, and then all the hype surrounding its release began.
The problem is, games have a very hard time living up to hype. Especially when they have a bit of a rocky launch like Hellgate did.
The thing is, Hellgate is actually a pretty fun game. It's an action-RPG in the vein of Diablo (expected/understandable since it's the former Diablo devs who started the company), and it's a good one. Unlike so many of the other Diablo clones, this one keeps one of the core features that made Diablo so great: random dungeons. It's truly an underrated game, and I am very sorry to see Flagship in the state that it's in now.
If you haven't played "Hellgate: London," I recommend you grab a copy and play it. It's certainly worth more than the price it can be had for these days.
Date: 2008-08-07
A VERY UNDER-RATED GAME IN MY OPINION
I'm not gonna write some long-winded revw on how great this game is - I went into this with NO expectations whatsoever and ended up really liking this game - it wasn't too hard and i spent a week or 2 playing it and becoming very involved and interested in it. and that was on single player, so i can't even imagine how good it would be on multi-player. anyways no way does it deserve a 1, 2, or 5 maybe a 3 or 4 but since i had to give it a grade i would say 3.5 as i experienced no bugs whatsoever. come-on now this is at least as good a game as the witcher (which i felt was kinda boring and repetitive after a while) or crysis (over=rated).
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