Hellgate London Gone Gold

Community Founder Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 2547

Yea just read this....

Hellgate: London has gone to gold master and will be available exclusively for the PC on November 2nd.

"This has been an amazing journey for us and we couldn't be more proud of what we've accomplished," says Flagship Studios CEO, Bill Roper. "We're anxious to get Hellgate: London into gamers' hands and we can't wait to play right along with them." And for gamers who can't wait until November 2nd to get their Demon-slaying on, Flagship Studios is releasing a single player demo tomorrow. Gamers can choose from two of the game's six character classes: the Blademaster, a master of swordplay and action-packed melee combat, or the Marksman, a cool, calculating, long-range specialist. In the demo, these heroes are able to battle through a small handful of storyline and side quests as they adventure through the streets and tunnels around London's Holborn Station.

Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and the action of first-person shooter titles, while offering infinite playability with dynamically generated levels, items, enemies, and events. Whether online or off, a player creates a heroic character, completes quests, and battles through innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances, and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.

For more information, visit
Hellgatelondon.com

Cheers
|2es-mrix

Joined: Jul 05, 2006 Posts: 96

Sounds good,

I think i shall be giving it a go..

Joined: Aug 30, 2007 Posts: 8

I have been waiting I dont know how long for this game, as there has been nothing quite like diablo2 for a while but felt quite let down when Alpha testing. It may have come on a bit since Alpha but I would strongly advise any old Diablo 2 Harcore fans to play the demo before buying this. I feel it may be as much an anti climax as the film Alien V Preadtor was Sad

Joined: Aug 13, 2007 Posts: 283 Location: Birmingham

Posted this somewere else but just incase will put it here i found it a little interesting, prob wont stop me giving the game ago:

Blues News reminds us we should look before we click. Read the following snippet from the End-User License Agreement for the Hellgate: London demo as a grim reminder of the rights software publisher can acquire during your eager rush to install and play a game:

“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.”

The above gives EA the right to comb through your computer, look at the software and hardware components you own, and share that information with the rest of the world. It also gives them the right to maintain a database containing everything they’ve gleaned about you. There’s no use in arguing about the ethics behind this, though, as each of us has a choice whether or not to agree to EA’s terms. While I don’t think anyone at EA is going to pay much attention to what’s on my computer — I don’t start sweating beads after I click “I Agree” at the bottom of a EULA — software publishers are getting ballsy when it comes to collecting what should be personal information.

Gone are the days when a publisher’s information gathering efforts were limited to the postcard you filled out to register a program. Back then, you could choose whether or not to check any of the little boxes under “What other products interest you?” — and that choice was kept separate from you being able to play the game. In this day and age, businesses are employing ever-more aggressive tactics to pinpoint what they think you want to buy, and in the case of software companies, that process is tied into you being allowed to play their games.

Unfortunately, a consumer embargo is all but impossible, so unless someone finds a way to make this activity illegal, we either have to grin and bear it or not play the games we want. I do have one idea, however. Uninstall all of your recreational and non-essential software, install a bunch of Barbie game demos and home gardening applications, install the Hellgate demo, then collect what starts showing up in your mailbox and mail it to EA.

- David Laprad