Comments on: Hellgate: London – A Knight’s Story

By: Hellgate: London - RIP!

Hellgate: London - RIP! — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:17:18 +0000

[...] as the official servers will be closed on the 31st of January, 2009… If you didn’t get to play Hellgate: London online yet, you can still take advantage of those few (very sad) months before the end. Since it’s [...]

By: Hellgate London News Update

Hellgate London News Update — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:53:24 +0000

[...] Hellgate: London is not one of those games easy to forget, especially because there are plenty of reasons to come back to it every couple of days, or even every day, if you have enough time to spare… but now, the Hellgate is in danger! Why? Well, it seems the developer of the game, Flagship Studios, has been taken out of the game! I know it sounds strange, but it may be possible for Hellgate: London to go on without its creators, as we’re going to see right away… Released back in late October, 2007, Hellgate: London is, for many Diablo fans, the game they were waiting for, especially since this has been created by the same group that worked on the Diablo series at Blizzrd Entertainment, and separated from that company some time ago. Since its release, Hellgate: London received one major update, called The Stonehenge Chronicles. As things look now, the game still has a long life ahead, but Flagship Studios may file for bankruptcy in the near future, so… what will happen with Hellgate, after all? At the end of last week, the Korean news website TheGames reported that HanbitSoft is taking full control over the Hellgate: London intellectual property from Flagship Studios, and they claim the reason of being “hard for us to accept Flagship Studios’ requests for continued support in capital and funding any longer and because Flagship was being difficult.” The good part is that HanbitSoft intends to “properly manage and develop Hellgate: London into a good game with proper content,” but this also means a new team of developers. If the outcome for gamers that already paid a lifetime subscription to Hellgate(valued at $150) will be a happy one, or not, that remains to be seen. Obviously, I am also thinking about the other subscribers, but I think they will lose less if things go terribly wrong… The funny part followed one day later, when Flagship Studios replied to that news report, and here’s what they had to say: “This story is an outright lie. We have no idea where they are getting their information from and have asked legal counsel to pursue the issue. We are mystified by Hanbitsoft’s conclusions and any attempt to take over the IP will be met with a strong and swift response, to “illegally take over the IP”. All right title and interest in Hellgate: London resides in Flagship Financing, LLC a wholly-owned subsidiary of Flagship Studios. We are outraged that Hanbitsoft would attempt to completely tarnish the reputation of its most vital developer. Hanbitsoft’s new management clearly does not understand the terms of its relationship with Flagship.” For now, everything seems to be really foggy, because various reports claim that Flagship Studios is cutting down its workforce, but no official reports went through just yet. Well, until we get to see an official report, we should continue enjoying Hellgate: London, and be happy with “Nothing Official has been stated about what is going on, everything you see or hear is speculation and rumors” as the only thing that is sure… These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Lifetime Subscription Extended Time For Hellgate London

Lifetime Subscription Extended Time For Hellgate London — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:55:32 +0000

[...] might ask – well, first of all, like you might have seen in the developer interview posted in the review of the game, they promised to add more cities from “the rest of the world” – of course, a lof of fans have [...]

By: Hellgate: London 1.2

Hellgate: London 1.2 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:59:56 +0000

[...] as a Beta. Anyway, before moving on and reading about this patch, I suggest you to go and read PlayerzBlog’s review of Hellgate: London [...]

By: Longcat

Longcat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:56:42 +0000

lol, internet rage.

That said, I enjoy this game quite a bit. It’s a bit lacking in story, yes, and the gameplay is repetitive, yes. But I like it, and have fun playing it.

I don’t think it merits a 10/10, but it’s a fun game, and I’ll probably be playing it until Hellgate 2 comes out.

By: Allan Gabriel

Allan Gabriel — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:21:46 +0000

Thank you! The latest single player patch has fixed a lot of issues as you can read here: http://www.playerzblog.com/hellgate-london-06-patch-makes-single-player-missions-happier.html

By: Igor

Igor — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:19:27 +0000

Well,I must admit this review shocked me,and for good.I think the game is great,altough it does not open up a new genre.But still its entertaining and the graphics are good.The Story is exciting and the side quests too have a story on their own and that’s good too.The memory leaks and the bugs were not too pleasent but in such a game it was too be expected.the system reqs. are fair if you compare them to games like Crysis.All in all i’m glad that somebody shares my view of Hellgate and knows to appreciate it.Congrats Allan!!!

By: Hellgate - Founder’s Offer Last Call

Hellgate - Founder’s Offer Last Call — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:42:07 +0000

[...] RSS feed or via email: Thanks for visiting!Hellgate London has evolved exactly as I predicted in my review into a wonderful game, most of the software bugs that caused random memory leaks have been fixed on [...]

By: bixel

bixel — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:43:09 +0000

HDR needs to be fxd or toned done, way too much ‘glowy’ on just about everything. Fog or steam needs to be tweaked.

But seriously tho the HDR is way over-powering, all the anti-alias work your graphix card is doing for you is wasted on the significant HDR muddiness.

GUI needs to look more gloomy, its way too optimistic and bright for a ‘Hellgate’ setting. Also an option to remove NPC target indicators/names needs to be added, seeing little floating icons and names are distracting and ruin the RGP’s immersion effect.

Artistically the game looks great, cheers to the 3D artists and texturers. I am looking forward to this.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:25:39 +0000

I agree with Todd, thanks for that.

And thanks for the review my friend.