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Flagship Studios First Project Title Announced
Voodoo Extreme has newsbits from around the interweb about Hellgate: London, the first title in the works at Flagship Studios. The home of well known ex-Blizzard employee Bill Roper is crafting a title that sounds a lot like the Blizzard hit Diablo. From the article: "The game is set five years after a war against demons has already been lost. London is depicted as a burnt out shell of itself. The demons are in the process of "hellaforming" earth to make it more suitable for their kind. A handful of humans have survived."
..what's the gameplay going to be like?
*# PC Gamer describes the game as Diablo played from a first person perspective and set in a post-apocalyptic London.
# Roper consders the game to be an RPG. His arguments: combat is entirely stat based, not twitch based. Hits, misses, and damage will depend on the stats of your character and their weapons; and ranged weapons cast spells (they're actually being referred to as "spell delivery systems").
# The game is set five years after a war against demons has already been lost. London is depicted as a burnt out shell of itself. The demons are in the process of "hellaforming" earth to make it more suitable for their kind. A handful of humans have survived.
# A third person view will probably exist, for melee fighting and whatnot. There will also be a third person "vanity mode" so you can view your character. Multiplayer will exist and support 16 to 32 players. Co-op gameplay will be emphasized, but deathmatch is a possibility. Roper says you will not be able to play as a demon.*
well, here's hoping that it's a good one. and not just a hack'n'slasher. played recently project snowblind.. had all the makings for a good game.. but ended up being average as the potential wasn't used to the full in the levels(the game itself was very much like deus ex - but the levels were built for a straight shooter).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.