AtomicGamer Celebrating “Hellgate: London Mania”
AtomicGamer.com, a gaming news site hosted by the UGO Network, has published a Hellgate: London preview, two pages in length, an HD video of the beta, and five new screenshots. The article covers a host of topics ranging from the basics such as the classes and their respective strengths to how the gameplay feels.
One of my favorite parts of Hellgate: London is that with a scroll of the mousewheel you can seamlessly transition from a first-person mode to a third-person mode. Yeah, a bunch of games have something like this, but many of them don’t handle the switch between the two viewpoints correctly - either the third-person crosshair doesn’t work right, or your guns aren’t visible in first person mode. If it’s not that, there’s some strange thing that makes it annoying to a player that’s used to either viewpoint. Hellgate works great in both modes, and while I felt like I should have been able to throw out some kind of built-in secondary attack or bash people with the butt of my gun in first-person mode, that’s just a holdover from what players usually get in a FPS. The feeling passed quickly.
As for the video of beta footage, here is AtomicGamer’s blurb about it:
Here’s an AtomicGamer exclusive clip with a minute of footage from Flagship Studios’ action-RPG title Hellgate: London. Here, we explore an underground train station and find that rocket pistols do indeed get the job done.
Really does feel like the final weeks of pre-release are truly upon us. Soon we’ll be remarking about the old days when news was scarce and we had to walk uphill to school both ways in the frigid bowels of winter. Sigh, good times.
– Scapes
