Hellgate: London Review
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You start by selecting your class and customizing their hair, skin color, and face before sending them into the world. There are half a dozen classes to choose from: the melee-based Guardian and Blademaster, the ranged Evoker and Marksman, and the minion-summoning Engineer and Summoner. All allow you to kill demons in a variety of ways, though between some of them there are some obvious similarities, and they just don't feel different enough.
And one of the biggest problems with the classes themselves is the skill system. If you've played Diablo 2 you'll know the rules: gain a level, gain a skill point. Some skills have prerequisites in the form of level requirements, either in your character or another skill. The thing is, the skill trees are just plain uninteresting. The Evoker stands out as particularly dull, where there isn't so much a '˜skill tree' as a series of vertical '˜skill lines'. It's really hard to tell which skills are even useful, or to compare one to another.
