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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 204 months Binding: DVD-ROM Brand: Electronic Arts EAN: 0014633098549 ESRB Age Rating: Mature Label: Electronic Arts Manufacturer: Electronic Arts Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: October 30, 2007 Sales Rank: 1633 Studio: Electronic Arts
Features:
Explore post-apocalyptic London: from ancient ruins buried beneath city streets to shattered cathedrals to the last remnants of humanity bunkered in the Underground
Misery Loves Company: Dont be a glory hog fight online
Infinite Replayability: Dynamically generated levels, chance events, and massive quantities of randomly created itemsUnderground
Have it your way: Three unique factions with their own visual and gameplay style
Beyond RPG: Experience new layers to the traditional hack-and-slash formula
Hell Never Looked Better: Delivers a true, DX10 experience, while being fully scalable for optimal performance on older PCs
Product Description: Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games with the action of first-person action titles. It is a world devastated by a demon invasion, where players must create a hero and battle through innumerable hordes of demons while completing quests and advancing through experience levels. Explore a desolate city scorched by hellfire where the survivors meld science and sorcery to gain a foothold against the minions of darkness and save the bloodline of humanity. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable items, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create heroes that are truly unique. London, 2038. According to legend, when the ravens depart the Tower of London, it will crumble to rubble and disaster will befall England. As man became more dependent on science, believing only in what he could define or create, ancient knowledge and rituals were lost to the antiquity of time. Prophecies that had stood as warning for untold generations were seen as archaic folly or ignorant superstition. So, when the harbingers of evil began to manifest, few saw and fewer believed. When the demons finally came, there was little that stood in their way. Compelling cooperative multiplayer experience - by creating unique and individualized game play instances within a vast online community, gamers get all the best parts of traditional massive multiplayer games Hellgate - London Game on 2 DVDs / Bonus Disc containing - Making of Hellgate - London; Official Game Soundtrack
Amazon.com: It’s 2038, and London lies in ruins... From Flagship Studios – creators of the award-winning Diablo® series and the fathers of the action role playing genre – comes HellGate: London, the next benchmark in the evolution of the RPG genre. Combining the depth of traditional RPGs with the frenetic, visceral feel of first-person shooters, HellGate: London offers infinite replayability with dynamically created levels, monsters, items and events that gives each player their own unique hack-and-slash experience. A post-apocalyptic London has been overrun by hordes of terrifying demons, leaving the city desolate and scorched by hellfire. Those who were unlucky enough to survive now gather in the only sanctuary left, the Underground, banding together in order to gain a foothold against the minions of darkness and ultimately save the bloodline of humanity. It is no surprise that these sole survivors come from three of society’s most elite factions, each of whom are masters of a robust number of skills and weapons essential to demon-thrashing. The Templar, a secret society preserving the rites of the original Knights Templar, mix futuristic technology with ancient artifacts to create powerful weapons and armor perfect for short-ranged and melee attacks. The Cabalists are students of the dark arts and edges of science which often leaves them standing right on the line between good and evil. Their mystifying spells make them suited for mid-range combat. The Hunters are mysterious, highly trained ex-military operatives who lay waste to their foes with hyper-advanced weapons that blend theoretical science and the latest in technology – and their bullets can come from almost any distance. HellGate: London delivers an amazing gaming experience to PC gamers of all types – delivering the eye-popping DX10 visuals demanded by the hardcore, and scaling to ensure the masses of casual RPG players can still get the best performance on older PCs. Key Features
The RPG Authority – Flagship Studios was founded by the core creators of Diablo, one of the biggest PC gaming franchises in history with over 13 million units sold worldwide – they are the first, last and only voice in the world of action RPGs.
Beyond RPG – Experience new layers to the traditional hack-and-slash forumla by experiencing the action RPG from the first-person perspective and through nontraditional character classes and playstyles.
Have it your way - Three unique factions with their own visual and gameplay style, offering something for every type of gamer, whether they prefer the longer-range blasts of the Hunter or want to get up close and personal with the Templar.
Infinite Replayability – Dynamically generated levels, chance events and massive quantities of randomly created items makes for infinite replayability -- no two experiences will ever be the same and every game will be it’s own unique event.
Mad Skills – Each faction has three character classes that contain a wide variety of skills and spells that are fully customizable.
London Calling – Explore post-apocalyptic London, even darker and gloomier than usual. From shattered cathedrals and landmarks to the ancient ruins buried beneath the shell of a once-great city, players will need to scour all of London in search of the unknown.
Misery Loves Company – Don’t be a glory hog – fight online. Gather with friends or recruit strangers in Underground stations and venture out into mean streets of London together to erase the Demonic threat.
Hell Never Looked Better – HellGate: London features all of the latest next-generation technology to deliver a true, DX10 experience, while being fully scalable for optimal performance on older PCs.
Minimum specifications: OS: Windows XP SP2 or better Processor: 1 GHz (or faster) Pentium 3 RAM: 512 MB or more Video: 100% DirectX 8 compatible device w/ 64MB VRAM or better (e.g., NVIDIA GeForce 3 (except 4 MX)) Audio: 100% DirectX 9 compatible device Disc drive: DVD Hard drive: 6 GB or more free space Input: Keyboard and mouse Internet: Connection required for multiplayer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Fun and worth the money but not much more.
For the price It's at now around 15$ it is well worth it not only that but the only mmo sort of play it has to is also free wich is basicly the exact same thing as the single player but just online allowing you to form parties with other players. The game has a strong story fun gameplay and interesting combat elements all which add up to make a pretty good game.
Rating: - Worthy succesor to D1 and D2.
I admit I waited until the price went down for this game,because the reviews for the most part were brutal.
So I got it a few days ago,and alternate playing it on my XP OS and my new Vista Premium OS.The XP computer is 5 years old,and runs the game perfectly.As does the Vista.No bugs. No gliches.
Now,for the review: I cannot understand all of the harsh reviews this game is getting from some people. I was as addicted to D1 and D2 as a human being could possibly be,so I have experience with the franchise.And I am waiting breathlessly for D3 to come out.But meanwhile,this game has proven (to me) that it is indeed a worthy successor to D1 & D2.
The graphics are killer.The character/class options are great.The weaponry and loot is great.The monsters and their bosses are every bit as good as the first two D's.There are gazillions of quests,and plenty of loot to be found all over the city.I found myself playing it until 4 in the morning the day I got it.I used to do that with D1&2 as well.The save method is a VAST improvement over D2's.The voice actors are okay for the most part.
The only things I consider not as good as the prior games:The music is nowhere near as cool and weird and scary as the two previous games.And the only other thing would be that there is only limited storage space in the inventory.Because when you are out killing things,some of them,not necessarily bosses,drop a huge amount of loot and you have to transport yourself back to your last visited city to sell the stuff,then go back and retrieve the rest.
So until D3 comes out,I will be playing this game very happily.
Rating: - Truly A Journey Into Hell
I'm not sure what happened to all the reviews for this game, but let me repost what I had before.
DO NOT BUY IT.
I know the cheap price and epic marketing blurbs (a Hell rift opens up in a future London? Awesome!) make it seem like a great purchase, but do not be tempted. Even at this point, almost a year after the premiere, this game is pure failure.
The mechanics are bad. The graphics are clunky. The online service (ha ha) is spotty and gimped.
Best of all, the developer is out of business. That's right, this game was so awesome that it spurred Flagship Studios right out of operation.
Rating: - fun game
I've been playing this game on and off since it was released. I like it quite a bit. It's pretty easy to play so if you don't have a ton of time to invest in a game like WOW this is a great game to consider. You can play for an hour or so and still feel like you've made some progress. The classes are pretty interesting as are the things you fight. I honestly don't know why people give this game such a poor review. I found it very entertaining.
Rating: - Only 2 reviews?
Deleting all of the negative reviews will not save this game. The setting is boring, the game play is ok. I wonder if they managed to fix all of the bugs. But i don't care to find out as i stopped playing it after lvl 20 as every single map looks the same and the game kept randomly crashing.
- Fun and worth the money but not much more.
- Worthy succesor to D1 and D2.
- Truly A Journey Into Hell
- Only 2 reviews? 
