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• • HellGate: London: Review

  • Based on this review we can safely assume that he just played it and only for a few minutes, got bored, and decided that was that.

     

    He says the opening scene is awesome. Yes.  Did you see the other cut scenes that were horrible and boring/uninteresting?  Minus the last cut scene of course.  The inbetween acts cut scenes were basically cop outs. 

    He didn't play all the way through.  He would have gotten REALLY tired with the same tilesets over and over, and he would have also (if he played a few months ago) realized that after you beat it on normal soloing through nightmare required massive amounts of grinding (I'm sure it still does but I quit a few months ago).

    This game was such a bad design under a great concept and some actually well designed gameplay elements that it was the heart break that made me realize I'm never going to buy another game again, until it's been out for many months.  I bought five game copies for family members and I so we could play it, and all of them tried it and didn't get past act 2 declaring the tech tree "mundane", the loot system archaic, and generally a horrible horrible game as they laughed at me for spending 200 bucks so we could finally have a game to play together.

    You see, we loved Diablo 2.  We still play it.  We are just bored with it, since Blizzard never updates it.  Too bad Hellgate is the worse game I've ever played.   I tried so hard to enjoy it, but I just couldn't.  It wasn't fun at all once you've played it for 30+ minutes!

    The way melee swings is annoying, and the monsters get replayed over and over...  to the point where you wish there were more interesting monsters to fight because you're bored.

    You also get tired of doing the "gather this, do this" quests that are basically errands and get tedious.  There's just not a lot to this game that is well done, a 5 or a 4 would have been a better rating.

    If the reviewer couldn't even stomach playing all the way through and beating the last boss on normal, then this game deserves a 0... since it couldn't keep the players attention long enough for him to finish.   Of course, maybe his day job is consuming all his time.

  • Posted: 4/16/08 3:48 AM
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