Hellgate London Skill Guide

Hellgate 2 Using Unreal 3 Engine to Build A More Terrifying World

Don't be surprised if someone tells you that you will be able to play Hellgate 2 in the near future. Back in September, the current Hellgate developer HanbitSoft had hinted about the development of Hellgate sequel. We have no idea of what Hellgate 2 will look like at the moment but according to Korean website gamemeca , the game will use Unreal 3 Engine.

Gamemeca says that HanbitSoft has signed an agreement with Epic Games to use Unreal 3 engine for the development of their new project. The senior official in T3 Entertainment reveals that the development of Hellgate 2 has begun early this year and the new Hellgate MMO will be similar to the orginal Hellgate: London in terms of theme and style.

When Hellgate: London was announced years ago, the gaming world was shocked by its gameplay concept that combined action and shooting with role-playing. Today we've already had many games of this genre, and Flagship Studio has been gone, but the Hellgate brand is still there and hopefully Hellgate 2 will give gamers another shock when it comes out.

Video Game Reviews: Borderlands Review

Disregard all the goofy talk about Borderlands and its million-plus guns, or its "Diablo 2 starring Mad Max" premise; the one thing you absolutely need to know about Borderlands is that it's basically Mario Party for FPS fans. No, that doesn't mean that Borderlands is suddenly a board game full of mascots, fluctuating rules, and silly minigames. It's that Borderlands is a game where the single-player ranges from good to downright boring or frustrating; but when you add multiple players to a session, it becomes a delightful fusion of cooperative mechanics, a simple (yet effective) reward scheme, and solid gunplay. It's secretly the party game for people who disdain minigames, but love to shoot things in the face. A more traditional description for Borderland would be, "cooperative FPS with Diablo-esque mechanics." You start off by picking a character: Roland the gun-toting soldier, Lilith the stealth/magic femme, Mordecai the sniper, and Brick the boxer/tank. Then you guide that character through a grand journey with multiple quest hubs and dungeons; most of the quests are of the simple "go to a dungeon and kill/collect x amount of y." My first playthrough, where I mostly focused on going down the critical path with a little bit of (but not nearly all) of sidequesting, took about 27 hours. By the way, the overarching story of "finding the secret Vault while guided by a mysterious woman who talks to you in your mind" is just serviceable; it's there to give you a reason to kill things, but don't expect anything more in-depth. But while games like Fallout 3 and Hellgate: London still use under-the-hood die rolls to determine first-person results, Borderlands, courtesy of Gearbox's experience in the FPS genre, uses actual skill in its combat. You don't aim center-of-mass and miss due to an incredibly unlucky dice roll -- you simply hit. While there isn't super-detailed location-based damage (you can't shoot a gun out of someone's hand or cripple their legs), at the very least, a bullet to the head counts as a critical hit. Also, the general aesthetics of gunplay are well-realized; shotguns impart oomph, sniper rifles sound off with a satisfying crack after each shot, and submachine guns blurt out bullets at a furious rate. Curiously, the only gun that seems off is the rocket launcher; there doesn't seem to be enough splash damage, and sometimes I can't even tell where the rocket itself will go.

Hellgate: London

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