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Hellgate: London

Hellgate: London

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From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games

List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $15.45
You Save: $4.54 (23%)



New (29) Used (7) from $14.99

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 101 reviews
Sales Rank: 1211

Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
ESRB: Mature
Media: DVD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1

MPN: 9854
UPC: 014633098549
EAN: 0014633098549
ASIN: B000QB058U

Release Date: October 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand New!! Open Box Item, Contents Complete and NEW!!

Features:
  • Explore post-apocalyptic London: from ancient ruins buried beneath city streets to shattered cathedrals to the last remnants of humanity bunkered in the Underground
  • Misery Loves Company: Dont be a glory hog fight online
  • Infinite Replayability: Dynamically generated levels, chance events, and massive quantities of randomly created itemsUnderground
  • Have it your way: Three unique factions with their own visual and gameplay style
  • Beyond RPG: Experience new layers to the traditional hack-and-slash formula
  • Hell Never Looked Better: Delivers a true, DX10 experience, while being fully scalable for optimal performance on older PCs

Accessories:

  • Hellgate London (Prima Official Game Guide)
  • Exodus (Hellgate, London, Book 1)
  • Hellgate: London (Hellgate London Trilogy)
  • PC Gamer (1-year)

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
It's 2038, and London lies in ruins...

From Flagship Studios - creators of the award-winning Diablo series and the fathers of the action role playing genre - comes HellGate: London, the next benchmark in the evolution of the RPG genre.

Combining the depth of traditional RPGs with the frenetic, visceral feel of first-person shooters, HellGate: London offers infinite replayability with dynamically created levels, monsters, items and events that gives each player their own unique hack-and-slash experience.

A post-apocalyptic London has been overrun by hordes of terrifying demons, leaving the city desolate and scorched by hellfire. Those who were unlucky enough to survive now gather in the only sanctuary left, the Underground, banding together in order to gain a foothold against the minions of darkness and ultimately save the bloodline of humanity.

It is no surprise that these sole survivors come from three of society's most elite factions, each of whom are masters of a robust number of skills and weapons essential to demon-thrashing.

The Templar, a secret society preserving the rites of the original Knights Templar, mix futuristic technology with ancient artifacts to create powerful weapons and armor perfect for short-ranged and melee attacks.

The Cabalists are students of the dark arts and edges of science which often leaves them standing right on the line between good and evil. Their mystifying spells make them suited for mid-range combat.

The Hunters are mysterious, highly trained ex-military operatives who lay waste to their foes with hyper-advanced weapons that blend theoretical science and the latest in technology - and their bullets can come from almost any distance.

HellGate: London delivers an amazing gaming experience to PC gamers of all types - delivering the eye-popping DX10 visuals demanded by the hardcore, and scaling to ensure the masses of casual RPG players can still get the best performance on older PCs.

Key Features

  • The RPG Authority - Flagship Studios was founded by the core creators of Diablo, one of the biggest PC gaming franchises in history with over 13 million units sold worldwide - they are the first, last and only voice in the world of action RPGs.
  • Beyond RPG - Experience new layers to the traditional hack-and-slash forumla by experiencing the action RPG from the first-person perspective and through nontraditional character classes and playstyles.
  • Have it your way - Three unique factions with their own visual and gameplay style, offering something for every type of gamer, whether they prefer the longer-range blasts of the Hunter or want to get up close and personal with the Templar.
  • Infinite Replayability - Dynamically generated levels, chance events and massive quantities of randomly created items makes for infinite replayability -- no two experiences will ever be the same and every game will be it's own unique event.
  • Mad Skills - Each faction has three character classes that contain a wide variety of skills and spells that are fully customizable.
  • London Calling - Explore post-apocalyptic London, even darker and gloomier than usual. From shattered cathedrals and landmarks to the ancient ruins buried beneath the shell of a once-great city, players will need to scour all of London in search of the unknown.
  • Misery Loves Company - Don't be a glory hog - fight online. Gather with friends or recruit strangers in Underground stations and venture out into mean streets of London together to erase the Demonic threat.
  • Hell Never Looked Better - HellGate: London features all of the latest next-generation technology to deliver a true, DX10 experience, while being fully scalable for optimal performance on older PCs.

Minimum specifications:
OS: Windows XP SP2 or better
Processor: 1 GHz (or faster) Pentium 3
RAM: 512 MB or more
Video: 100% DirectX 8 compatible device w/ 64MB VRAM or better
(e.g., NVIDIA GeForce 3 (except 4 MX))
Audio: 100% DirectX 9 compatible device
Disc drive: DVD
Hard drive: 6 GB or more free space
Input: Keyboard and mouse
Internet: Connection required for multiplayer

Product Description
Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games with the action of first-person action titles. It is a world devastated by a demon invasion, where players must create a hero and battle through innumerable hordes of demons while completing quests and advancing through experience levels. Explore a desolate city scorched by hellfire where the survivors meld science and sorcery to gain a foothold against the minions of darkness and save the bloodline of humanity. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable items, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create heroes that are truly unique.
London, 2038. According to legend, when the ravens depart the Tower of London, it will crumble to rubble and disaster will befall England. As man became more dependent on science, believing only in what he could define or create, ancient knowledge and rituals were lost to the antiquity of time. Prophecies that had stood as warning for untold generations were seen as archaic folly or ignorant superstition. So, when the harbingers of evil began to manifest, few saw and fewer believed. When the demons finally came, there was little that stood in their way. Compelling cooperative multiplayer experience - by creating unique and individualized game play instances within a vast online community, gamers get all the best parts of traditional massive multiplayer games Hellgate - London Game on 2 DVDs / Bonus Disc containing - Making of Hellgate - London; Official Game Soundtrack



Customer Reviews:   Read 96 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars Let Down   August 14, 2008
I had waited months for this game to come out...and when it did I sorta wish it never had. At least then I could remain blissfully ignorant of the quality (or lack there of) of this game. I put about 15 hours into the game hoping it would improve, but the game play was so repetitive and lackluster that I decided enough was enough.

I admit the concept was good and the potential was there, but in the end, for me, it was extremely boring. A big waste of $50.



1 out of 5 stars save your money   August 13, 2008
first of, stop by their official forums and browse the tech support section. this game, even now allmost a year after release is plagued with problems.

i have a Radeon HD 4870, 4G ram, intel core 2 duo processor, SATA raid, I can run the game on full graphics modes with no lag, but textures are missing, i can't deconstuct an item, random crashes.

I'm forced to lower settings to low in order to play the game, which makes everything look crappy.

I can run Oblivion full settings smooth as butter, this goat of a game, no.

Tech Support over at hellgate forums consists of two things
1.) They want your dxdiag output
2.) they tell you to uninstall/reinstall your video drivers and the game, even when you explain that EVERYTHING works fine except for hellgate

Also check Google for "Flagship Studios" and see what the company itself has been doing. They've laid off most of the developers, it's a bad situation.

They've taken away the option to 'subscribe' to premium service b/c they simply can't support it.



4 out of 5 stars Overhyped, Underrated   August 12, 2008
I feel bad for Flagship Studios. As a programmer in the games industry, I know how hard it is to make a game. I know how long it takes. I know how brutal the PC industry is. I first saw "Hellgate: London" at E3 in 2005. I thought it looked like it had a lot of potential. I then saw it again at E3 2006, and thought it looked pretty much the same. I forgot about it for a while, and then all the hype surrounding its release began.

The problem is, games have a very hard time living up to hype. Especially when they have a bit of a rocky launch like Hellgate did.

The thing is, Hellgate is actually a pretty fun game. It's an action-RPG in the vein of Diablo (expected/understandable since it's the former Diablo devs who started the company), and it's a good one. Unlike so many of the other Diablo clones, this one keeps one of the core features that made Diablo so great: random dungeons. It's truly an underrated game, and I am very sorry to see Flagship in the state that it's in now.

If you haven't played "Hellgate: London," I recommend you grab a copy and play it. It's certainly worth more than the price it can be had for these days.



3 out of 5 stars A VERY UNDER-RATED GAME IN MY OPINION   August 7, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I'm not gonna write some long-winded revw on how great this game is - I went into this with NO expectations whatsoever and ended up really liking this game - it wasn't too hard and i spent a week or 2 playing it and becoming very involved and interested in it. and that was on single player, so i can't even imagine how good it would be on multi-player. anyways no way does it deserve a 1, 2, or 5 maybe a 3 or 4 but since i had to give it a grade i would say 3.5 as i experienced no bugs whatsoever. come-on now this is at least as good a game as the witcher (which i felt was kinda boring and repetitive after a while) or crysis (over=rated).


5 out of 5 stars Great Game and Why   August 5, 2008
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Ive heard of problems with its release I bought it at bargain bend not hoping for much. I like this game whatever problems they had they fixed the only bad part is I dont think they will do an expansion. If you liked Oblivion or diablo2 this you should like also. better graphics with the same game play as diablo2 equal graphics if not better than oblivion. I have not tried the online portion of this game however. An expansion is needed to make this truly great adding more lvls items and classes like diablo 2 did.

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