PC Powerplay, an Australian gaming magazine has published a review of Hellgate London in their most current issue. While we do not have scans, we actually don’t publish scans on this website anymore, so don’t expect to see them. However HGG member Darksabre posted a summary of the article that I will now shamelessly copy and paste here!
The two-page review features six screenshots, a boxout of classes and a few
pictures regarding the skill tree, inventory and world map.
Quotes from
the article:
POSITIVES:
“If you like action RPG’s you should buy
this game. If you like FPS games, you should buy this game. If you like RPG/FPS
games, you should probably start cancelling your social committments for the
next six months”
“Killing baddies is the heart of the game, and it’s
both visuall appealing and fun in a classic Quake kind of way: the difficulty is
pitched just right”
“Hellgate is a wonderfully deep, wonderfully
balanced Diablo 2 ripoff”
NEGATIVES:
“The side quests are uniformly
awful, presented 1997 style, as poorly written text over poorly written
dialogue, and the central plot isn’t much better”
“But Hellgate wants 28
different kinds of magical pants, and couldn’t stretch back stories for any of
them, so its greenhorn dungarees for you, hero”
“It bothers me that
Hellgate pretends. It bothers me that it thinks its an update, not a rehash of
the dungeon crawl formula It bothers me that it could have been so much more.
But it is what it is: a good game which doesnt bother with the bits it thinks we
don’t care about”
No mention is given to online modes, subscription or
ongoing updates or patches.
7/10
+ Insanely replayable
+ Easy to
learn, hard to master
+ Great monster designs
- Unexciting Story
-
Recycled RPG cliches
- Little sense of immersion
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