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Hellgate: London (PC DVD) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 867
Platform: Windows Xp
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Age: 11 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930057220
ASIN: B000FNA25U
Release Date: November 2, 2007
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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 Don't buy this game unless you like playing solo offline October 24, 2008
Don't buy this game the company (Flagship Studios) who made it no longer exists and when January 31st 2009 comes around the company currently supporting the multiplayer servers (Namco-Bandai) will be dropping their support and the US and EU servers will close.
Now on the other hand you can still play the game offline in a Singleplayer function (which is good if you can find the latest singleplayer patch online). It's not as great as the multiplayer was though (and things that were subscriber only for the multi don't appear in the singleplayer).
 The worst game EVER made! October 7, 2008
Ignore the one star review. I wish Amazon allowed a zero stars option for the review but it won't.
This really a god awful game. Its pretty but that cannot make up for the fact that it seems to have been created from a list of how not to make a computer game. I've just completed it, sludging through uninteresting and unchallenging level after repetitive level only because I paid good money for the thing and once you are personally invested in a story (even a really bad story) you tend to want to know what happens at the end*
Repetition is really the keyword to this game, its pointless grinding against random targets from start to finish. a sort of plot has been tacked on afterward but following that will only lead to an expectation of a conclusion, and such an expectation will only disappoint. The engine sucks, making farming next to pointless. The customization is more of a hindrance than a help because you can quite easily improve your kit to the state where you can no longer equip it (at least not for a good few levels), with no warning and no option to remove mods. No shop in the game will ever sell you anything of use except for healing, everything in the shops will always be way below your current needs and thus worthless. Once you reach about half way through the game you gain xp at such a slow rate as to make leveling almost worthless.
The speech is moronic in its attempt to be 'British' and the given the guide forgets to include most of the information needed to play the game and there is no tutorial, you'll need Google and a few hours time just to grasp how to play the game.
*to save other poor sods having to put up with the dire gameplay to find out, I'll tell you ... nothing happens. Absolutely nothing at all. All the clues you have collected mean nothing and have no point. The promised climax of 'doing this will defeat the bad guys' just doesn't. You simply beat the last boss and a new one appears in a bit of film saying "ha ha, you lose, please walk through that portal to exit the game with no victory or feelings of accomplishment whatsoever".
Trust me when i say, please save yourself the heartache and buy anything else instead. It's a blessed relief that Flagship went under.,
 Brilliant September 22, 2008
Bought this game on the recommendation of a magazine, didnt regret it once. A great game but it can become repetative, theres a limited number of different mission types. But despite this, the game is certainly worth playing, I suggest trying various character types to find one that suits your style. Once the game is patched the creases get ironed out and it becomes even better. Much recommended!!!
I love it! May 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am an ex-D2 player and I stopped bitching and whining about games not working my way some time ago. In short: The game works. I love it. If you do not like it when a game gives you hell then you should avoid this one. The title makes this somewhat obvious.
Definetly shouldn't buy this April 15, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was a massive fan of the Diablo series and, after hearing this game would be a Three dimensional Diablo II i was itching to get a copy. However i was soon to find this to be one of the worst games i think i have ever played.
A select few of the downfalls that make this game so bad
The Gameplay - Repetetive to say the least. Only about 4-5 different level types, and the diablo "random made map" feature isnt anywhere near as good as it only produces about 6-7 maps. Also the NPC's arent different, oh no they are one of about 20 skins with a different color and name........
The graphics - Admittedly i do not have Dx10 but im pretty sure it wouldnt be much better. Everything is more of a Blur than a graphic. Also the physics are terrible. You find yourself dying because a NPC decided to shoot you through the walls of London, which seems to look the same wherever you are (i.e places like regent street looking exactly the same as oxford street, houses, buses, cars, fences, the odd police car)
The constant bugs - .......and im not talking about the odd glitch, you find yourself jumping through levels and then getting stuck between a fence and a bus, then not being able to get out, so having to do the whole level again.
Skills are easy to bug - i myself chose a magician, and i literally bugged a skill with a freind all the way through to about level 29 where it randomly stopped
Bad game. had such potential but was made so bad.
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