Hellgate: London Updated Impressions

GameSpot brings us some updated impressions of Flagship Studios’ Hellgate: London, after spending some more firsthand time with the RPG. Here’s a bit to get you started:

While the areas that we were able to see were the same ones that were on display in May at E3 (a dingy downtown London area and a connected subway area), Flagship has apparently been hard at work since then cranking out content to fill out this area, and to fill out the game’s only currently known character profession, the templar. The templar character class (one of several you’ll be able to choose when you play the game) is descended from the secret society known as the Knights Templar, and has the ability to wear body armor and helmets while wielding a weapon in either hand, either using two melee weapons, two guns, or a sword and a gun. As we saw, it may actually be useful to split the difference and try using a melee weapon in one hand and a ranged weapon like the grappler, a retractable grappling hook on a cable that can grab faraway enemies (and even flying monsters) and drag them towards you, so that you can pummel them with your melee weapon.