Hellgate: London Review

GamingHeaven has given Flagship’s Hellgate: London a closer examination, now that the action RPG has seen nearly three months of post-release fixes. After a pretty good overview, they hand it a 79/100 and close with these two paragraphs:

When considering Hellgate: London you have to ask yourself am I willing to give the game a chance and not overanalyze every single aspect of it? For you see, as hard as the game tries to hide it, it is at its core just a Diablo 2 clone tossed into a 3D world where the same rules no longer apply. That is perhaps the toughest part to deal with here you aren’t playing a first person shooter. No, you are playing a click-fest RPG that just happens to use a first person perspective.

A final question remains subscriptions. As you might know Hellgate London offers players the choice to pay a monthly subscription and gain access to extra content. Up until now this mostly meant extra loot drops and worthless stuff like that. But as of the 22nd January (if nothing goes wrong again) subscribers got access to the first content update, adding entirely new zones (with new artwork and all. Before you take the plunge you might want to play the game as a non-paying customer and see if it is your cup of tea. Word of caution the game can become addictive without you realizing it!