HELLGATE:LONDON Goes Live

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Friday, October 19, 2007
Source: Hellgate:London Underground Site

Flagship Studios, creators of the DIABLO series, have activated their latest RPG game online HELLGATE:LONDON at their official site. The studio has released plenty of screenshots, videos, etc can be found right here. In fact, no signup is needed to play the demo which you can download here. Here's some information on this new RPG including playable roles and features as said by Flagship Studios.

Characters:

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

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.

If you're one of those RPG fans playing HELLGATE:LONDON, you may find yourself up against or fighting alongside our own Mania Sci-fi/Fantasy Book Guru, Pat Ferrara.

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Comments/Responses

kaybar • Oct 19, 2007, 12:29am •

Somebody please tell me they got this to work, I tried to d/l the 1.45 gig demo twice and both times had errors. To any of you who got it running let me know how it is!

thescourge • Oct 19, 2007, 03:32am •

As long as those "older" computers have 1gb of memory and a NVIDIA or ATI video card. You know I have a brand new laptop and cannot play this game?

DarkJedi • Oct 19, 2007, 05:09am •

No luck yet, Pat?

What's the error message say? Perhaps, it should be sent into Flagship.

goldeneyez • Oct 19, 2007, 08:44am •

Hey, I'm actually playing in the beta & there were problems downloading that client and getting it to work. I had to cancel the first download, delete what was downloaded and re-download the program to get it downloaded completely.

After that, it wouldn't install correctly. To fix that problem instead of just running the program I used WinRaR to explore the setup download and run the installer that was actually inside the compressed package.

That said, I'm not sure if the new single player downloader will have the same issues.

As far as the game, it's pretty fun. The beta is online so it's a mix between Diablo, WoW from the MMO aspect, and a FPS depending on what class you play.

makabriel • Oct 19, 2007, 11:45am •

Been in beta for a while. Game has a lot of potential.

Jakester • Oct 20, 2007, 07:59am •

Did anyone read the EULA:
Originally Posted by Hellgate: London demo EULA
3. Consent to Use of Data. You agree that EA, its affiliates, and each Related Party may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer, including without limitation your Internet Protocol address, operating system, application software and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online play. EA and/or the Related Parties may also use this information in the aggregate and, in a form which does not personally identify you, to improve our products and services and we may share that aggregate data with our third party service providers.

So they can take WHATEVER THEY WANT (your browser cache, for example) of of your computer and GIVE/SELL it to WHOEVER THE WANT. Notice how "online play" is the LAST thing they may use this data for. Do you know what dynamically served content is? It's IN-GAME ADS. You can bet your ass they'll be looking at ALL of your installed software and your browser cache to market ads to you. If you do online banking, they will know what bank you use. Does that make you all warm and fuzzy inside?
If you couple this with online activations like you have with Bioshock, they can look at your installed software and see if you're licensed to play the OTHER games on your machine.

Do you really want to give a GAME COMPANY that much power over your PC and personal information? Is your privacy worth not only playing a game, but you are PAYING them to take your personal information.

Don't be a sheep.

kaybar • Oct 20, 2007, 06:28pm •

thx goldeneyez for the info, and that is pretty f'ed up shit jakester... but it won't prevent me from playing this game.

I'm more interested to see what Flagship's stance on selling in-game property is, that's what REALLY made Diablo 2 fun, having the ability to trade your top-level items for cold hard cash.

panzerhd • Nov 01, 2007, 11:13am •

i got it yesterday, I had now problem loading it, but I used the DVD not down loading it. The game is diffently intense, the graphics are killer. Friend said he had to drop down to DX9 instead of DX10, it kept crashing on him. I run DX9 with np so far. I have done about 10 quest and opened up like 3 areas in the single player mode. Will jump on multiplayer this weekend probably and go from there. This is not a click and kill game u have to aim all your shots and swings and such. Looking forward to getting further into this game.

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