Gamespot's verdict on HG:L (Hellgate: London)

Written by gyl on Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Gamespot Score: 7.00 Good
Hellgate: London has plenty of neat ideas, but many of them aren't executed as well as you'd like.

The Good
* Gameplay can be supremely addictive because of the way it lets you collect tons of items and ugrade your gear
* Good-looking graphics, especially on DirectX 10 machines.

The Bad
* Most ranged weapons really lack "oomph"
* Plenty of technical glitches can get in the way
* Story is clumsy and not written or conveyed very well.

Hellgate: London is a likeable action role-playing game that answers the question "What would happen if you took all the loot lust from Diablo and fit it into a first-person shooter?" OK, maybe you weren't asking that question, but Hellgate is an interesting game. It will probably come into its own after a few more patches, but right now, it has almost as many issues as strengths.

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I've tried playing Hellgate: London in a LAN shop and I was amaze by the quality of the design. I was impressed with the overall feel of the game and the number of character types you can create. I tried playing both ranged and melee characters and can I just say that using ranged characters has this really wierd feeling. The game is really nice and after playing it for the first few hours you can easily decide whether to stick to it or not as most of the game's features are found in the first few hours of gameplay.

Even though GameSpot gave Granado Espada a sucky 4.0 (though it gets a 6.9 from other critics) I wouldn't bother shifting to Hellgate: London. Not only it will require me more time (GE already does eat a lot of time alread), but I grew to love and enjoy this "tedious quests and little payoff make this Korean massively multiplayer online game a real grind"-game. Maybe its because of the AFK-able gaming system that allows you to actually go on with your real life without the need to worry about getting your characters left behind (and sometimes if you feel so lazy training to get to that next costume!). Anyway, below are vital stats from Hellgate: London and Granado Espada. Pretty nice turn outs XD.