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Dont waste your money!! Play the demo first!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 62
Date: October 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was excited about this game until I played the demo. The graphics are good but overall game play is boring. Those of you that love Diablo 2 you will find this game lacking the intensity. Overall don't waste your money, or try looking at Call of Duty 4 demo or TimeShift Demo. Those games are better FPS.

Text Box Game With Almost No Voice Actng

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 28
Date: November 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

That's right, you read and click your way through all the Hellgate dialog just like the bad ol' days. This issue seems to be oddly overlooked in many official reviews so I thought I'd lead with it--having not been adequately warned myself. Frankly I think it should be written across the game box in 90 point text. The text should be red and flashing. They could use the money they saved on voice acting to install LEDs and a little watch battery so the flashing could warn more people.

It's 2007 and scrolling through endless text boxes should be a deal breaker for a $50 game, but here's the rest of the bad news in case you still care:

Hellgate plays like a raw Diablo stats engine stripped of everything that made the Diablo games engaging. The developers seemed to cut every corner they could: generic story, boiler plate environments, NPCs that just stand around like lifeless mannequins, animations that look like they came from 1994, side quests that don't play into any larger story and are rewarded with the same crap you just purged from your inventory.

Just buy something else or they'll make more.

I've never been this amazed and disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 27
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've never written a really bad review like this. There is always something worthwhile with these games. This one though is astonishing. It simply DOES NOT RUN... ever. I envy those who have played through to tell the tale. But I have never had such a miserable install, so many bugs and patches that simply did not work.

EA should be embarrassed. The error messages are simply too bizarre for words. This is 2007 for goodness sake. No one releases code this nasty anymore. The patching mechanism simply does not work. You are FORCED to create an account, otherwise you cannot have access to support (but I already paid the $50).

You cannot download the patches, you have to use EAs miserable updater, which does not work, ever, on any computer. I was shocked at the amount of code/software quality issues I see on the Hellgate forums. I have NEVER seen anything like it before. It seems like a large percentage of people simply cannot get the blasted software to work.

Enough said. I never write reviews/commentary like this. I leave that to the naive 14 year olds who don't know how the world works. But this time, I am seething with anger over this total waste of money and time.

Hellgate: London

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed playing this game in single player mode right up until the final battle. At that point the game developed a glitch and I can't find tech support help to resolve it. I checked it'd forums and see a number of people have a similar problem. I'm sorry, but for $50, I expect to be able have a good killfest right up to the end.

Do they even test installations?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 18
Date: November 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have a 4 month old very capable computer with Vista, and Hellgate won't even run. I get a warning that it might not run and get directed to a text-heavy Vista "support" page. Vista support is also a joke. I have no clue how to get it to run. I suppose I could research it further, but how cruddy is that. I want a game that will install and run without me being a computer geek.

Full of bugs. Huge disappointment.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: November 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the buggiest piece of software I've ever dealt with. When it runs, the game is some fun, and the graphics are OK--not bad, but certainly nothing special, even with DX10 and all graphics options maxed. In terms of concept and gameplay, it is precisely Diablo 3. But it is virtually unplayable due to all the bugs. It crashes to desktop, randomly locks up, and many quests are bugged, making them impossible to complete. Before buying this, have a look at the official game support forums for an idea of the problems people are having.

If you played Oblivion, this will seem like a 2002 game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 26
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Circa 2002 graphics and character models that look nothing like the quality in the cut-scene movies (think Unreal2); you can only configure a few of the controls; no voice acting on most dialog (you read and flip pages); boring linear levels that are not even atmospheric or spooky in 3rd person; lame AI. I guess if you like fiddling with complicated character attributes and inventory this might be for you. This will be in the clearance $19.99 bin in about 2 months.

...a HELL filled with software BUGS!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: November 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT purchase this software. It is filled with game-crashing, system-stopping bugs. I have a great, fully updated system and it still crashes all the time. If you don't believe me, do a Google search of "Hellgate London bugs"...you'll find plenty to read.

SAVE YOUR MONEY AND TIME! RUN!

Hellgate: London - Unfinished and Uninspired

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: November 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would STRONGLY recommend that anyone considering purchasing Hellgate first play the demo version. Unfortunately, I didn't and I was so incredibly disappointed by the actual game. Flagship Studios should be freaking embarrassed for trying to pass off this tripe as a complete game.

I don't even want to waste time going over all of its inadequacies (of which someone could probably write a book). But the whole game just feels so unfinished. The environments and characters all look flat and uninspired. The textures look like something out of Quake I. What an awesome game this COULD have been.

Try the Demo first

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 17
Date: November 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you want a lot of headaches then buy this game outright. If you want to be smart about it download and try the demo first. Different people like different things, so you may love this game or hate it, gameplay-wise. What is not in dispute though is that the game is definitely buggy. That point has come through in review after review, so do you're self a favor and install and play the demo first. I expect we'll see a patch and a re-release of the demo in the near future, due to these issues. But testing your system out with the free demo will give you the "heads-up" as to whether or not the game will be stable enough with your drivers/system specifications.

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