Sadly, there's far too much action and not nearly enough story in Hellgate.
It sounds like an awesome premise and one that's ideally suited for the action-RPG format that the Flagship folks created for the Diablo franchise all those many years ago. If you're getting here late, you deserve to be told that Hellgate is set in a future London where groups of Knights Templar strike out from their bases in the London subway system at the forces of Hell that have taken over the rest of the city. The action RPG scores high in terms of atmosphere and the quantity and quality of monsters and loot, but falls far below the mark owing to repetitive combat, generic levels and a multiplayer system that adds little to the single player experience. Well, after a few more days with the title, we're firmly convinced that our initial impressions weren't far off the mark.
So if you read last Friday's impressions of Hellgate: London, you know that we were hoping to spend a little more time with the game before finally rendering our ultimate verdict.
