The next official reboot of Hellgate occurred on November 3rd, 2008. They have continued work on the game to this day. You can see some of their work at Revival. While the original game was left in purgatory these modders grabbed the bull by the horns and applied fixes and modifications that breathed new life into the game. Hellgate London’s first solo player revival was thanks to the modding community that had grown up around hellgate. While Flagship intended for Hellgate London to be an ongoing project and even managed to launch a few updates the plan ended up falling through and the original servers were shut down on February 1, 2009. The original Hellgate London debuted on Oct 31, 2007, by Flagship Studios. Remember the dead, but fight for the living! Hellgate London was an excellent first that showed the potential of the concept an expansion or sequel would have been the real jumping off point for the game. I think ultimately it was the always-online for multiplayer, the cost and poor management of servers, and the frustrating (although brute force solvable) quest bugs were what spelled the game’s doom which was a real shame as it was overall a robust experience (barring overused tiles). It was fun and engaging despite the clunkiness and bugs. The options of guns, blades, or magic, the traversal of the world through tunnels and notable landmarks, and the little thrill of excitement at recognizing a game location that you have been to in real life all made this a memorable game. Enter the protagonist our heroic avatar who not only saves this information from the demon’s clutches but helps reconnect and revitalize humanities last remaining bastions of safety within the English tube system. Humanity is barely scraping by but a recent discovering may hold the key to closing hellgates and allowing us to retake the earth. Our journey focusses on London decades after the initial invasion.
The premise of the game is that the earth has been overrun by demonic beings and the risen dead, due to portals that are known as hellgates opening up all over the world. The best way to describe Hellgate London was that it was a first/third person Diablo style cyberpunk shooter-looter. Hellgate London was a game with massive potential and wide scope that floundered during the middle years of broadband internet’s introduction. Like an ancient leviathan that rises from the deep seas to sow terror and discord every 100 years, Hellgate London is once again being revived.
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