Hell… aint a bad place to be!
Some games hit you like a freight train, events that you’re literally scared to miss. Others coax you from afar like a siren on an ocean of beer, playing on the back of your mind until a rainy day where you take the plunge. Hellgate can’t rally claim to be the former but once you’ve played it for an hour or so you just.. can’t.. put.. it.. down!
the levelling system is so polished that there’s an endless wealth of skills/upgrades to strive towards
Lets get the plot out of the way. Demons (daemons?) have come out of a book and taken over the world. Or something. And everyone wears neon coloured armour and fights with swords as well as guns. Or something. And the battleground is London because; well, because the game was made in England and it makes a change from bloomin America.
What it all boils down to is a very simplistic, Diablo style hack/slash/hack/slash/hack kind of gameplay where there are only two attack buttons and you just fight your way through swarms of zombies on the streets. Graphics are pretty good but not great, performance is pretty good but not great. On paper it doesn’t really sound like it has much to offer at all.
None of this, of course, is immediate, and this is why I stress that you have to play this game for an hour before you get hooked. And regardless of how you like your other games, don’t play as the first-person marksman character. It just isn’t that kind of game and you’ll be disappointed. Go third person, get yourself a sword, ignore the plot, get slashing and appreciate this game as it slowly unfolds before your eyes.Then, like me, you’ll never put it down again.
The Bad: Average graphics when played in first person, takes a bit to get going & not everyones cup of tea(or should that be chalice of blood!).
