Final Verdict
In summary, Hellgate: London was released as, and to this day remains, an under developed action RPG, that probably needed another 6-12 months of polishing to allow it to transform into the game that the designers originally envisaged. While there are definitely faint glimmers of potential present, you’ll spend most of your in-game time struggling to see these gems through the piles of grit and grime that obscure them from view. As it currently stands, player’s will find it difficult to maintain any interest in grinding through this dull and repetitive experience once, let alone re-visiting the game with a different character class. If you’re already addicted to playing the game online, pray that the owner’s don’t decide to shut the servers down anytime soon. The rest of us might want to fire up our old copies of Diablo 2 to get us warmed up for the impending sequel.