Ripten's Josh Pankratz weighs in on the pros and cons of Flagship Studio's Hellgate London.
Before Flagship Studios, there was Blizzard North. Originally known as Condor, the Redwood-based studio was acquired in 1997 by Blizzard Entertainment. At the time, Blizzard North was hard at work on the development of the game that would be the cornerstone of everything that came after: Diablo.
IGN : Remember Hellgate: London? The dark fantasy action role-playing game came out in 2007 for PC, a year before developer Flagship Studios went bankrupt. Since then, various free-to-play and online revivals have come and gone. Now, 17 years after the release of Hellgate: London, it’s back.
I remember some friends and I all bought Hellgate: London day one because it was made by some original Diablo devs. We had fun playing it, good memories.
PC Invasion: Hellgate: London is back on Steam, but it's not what you expect it to be. It's a single-player game in the vein of Asian MMOs.
I was EXTREMELY skeptical about this game...BUT after playing the demo it looks like it might be a worthy Diablo 2 successor or at least worthy of the annual Diablo-like doses...but the game DESPERATELY needs a LOT of patching to be at its finest cuz in the demo its was VERY evident that there were a LOT of small annoying details that a simple patch could fix