Hellgate: London Preview

WorthPlaying is offering up a preview of Flagship’s Hellgate: London, after checking out a quick demonstration of the demonic RPG. Here’s a bit to start you off:

The way the developer outlined the multiplayer component makes it sound like nothing else that’s currently available on the market. Multiplayer will be massive, but strictly cooperative and based largely on satisfying various task-oriented missions (such as gathering items, rescuing people, or killing specific monsters). The single player and multiplayer campaigns are entirely separate, essentially making Hellgate a title with two unrelated game modes. While the single player game will follow a plotline and ensure certain power-ups, the multiplayer game is more freeform and will make it more of a challenge to acquire the best gear. It’s implied that the multiplayer campaign is meant to follow after the single player mode, and may present a higher level of difficulty overall. While some monster and map generation in single player will be pre-set for the sake of story progression, the multiplayer map generation will be more truly random.