Early Hellgate ReviewI was a little harsh on Hellgate London on my previous post. I think my message on the game came out wrong also.

I think it's an awesome game. I love playing it. There's a few things that I wish they would have added however.

First is Single Player LAN option. When my friend came over on Halloween and we wanted to play together, we couldn't. The servers were being updated so we had to go our seperate ways and play single player. Now if we had Single Player LAN, we could have at least played together. I hope they add this option in the furture. So people have said that Flagship Stuidios didn't add this option becaue of security issues. I'm trying to think how not playing on the internet is less secure than playing on the internet. What they should have said is, "We don't want people to hack and play together." But I'm still just talking about LAN and not Blizzard's "Open Battle.net".

Secondly, I wisth they would have had full voice acting instead of just greeting voice acting. A lot of people complain about not getting into the story, and I think full voice acting would have helped. All the NPCs should have full voice acting for the text instead of saying [generic greeting] and then have what he is saying in just text form. It would have helped with my experience.

Lastly... crap i forgot what I was going to say. One of the bad reviews pointed it out. Nope I was wrong. I got both of them that I agreed with him about. Oh well.

Here's something. DirectX10 support should be better, especially since I have one of the top of the line DirectX10 cards. I think mine is second on the rankings list for it. I have the NVidia Geforce 8800 GTX (not GTS), which is a 768 MB video card. I think the first is the 8800 Ultra. Glancing at newegg.com, it looks like my ranking is correct to this date. Obviously if you are looking at this post a year down the road, there will be better video cards.

Speaking of hardware issues, the memory problems that people are suffering, need to be fixed. Sunday I was playing with my friend again, and after 5-7 hours, it crashed on my system. I have 4 GB of memory. I should not run out of memory. Nay I CAN'T run out of memory. But alas i did. My friend's computer crashed earlier than that, but he has 2 GB. Still, Flagship needs to fix that.

The hardware problems can be fixed with patches, and the option of LAN can also be patched. They'll probably never put the full voice acting in, but oh well.

Let me kinda go into the graphics area a little more. The graphics are awesome in this game. I want to use DirectX10, but the game makes my Graphics driver crash, therefore crashing the game. The game looks great with DirectX 9, but from what I here from other peopole is that It looks even more stunning with 10. However, they suffer from bad framerate in the 10, so they go back to using 9. I talked about graphics in my previous post and that still stands.

So what did I find good about this game that makes me go "This is awesome." Well the gameplay is fun. I love hacking and slashing, and shooting. It also looks great on my settings. I love the outside levels, the best. The animations are good. Music is good.

It has a very complex items system, that is fun to use. Modding weapons with mods that you find adds attributes to a weapon. You can also upgrade the quality of your weapon if you have enough money. You can also craft your own weapons, and make them out of bluepirnts that you find and scrap metal that you get from breaking down weapons that you do not need. I do have to agree with IGN on this though. Flagship should have designed an auto sort function for your inventory. I've tried to pick up an item only to get the "Full inventory" message and I open up my inventory to find a lot of open slots, just not in one place to that I can fit a pair of boots in my inventory. I have to rearrange my inventory then all of a sudden I have enough space for 3 pairs. Then I can get back into the action.

Which is another fun thing. This game is action packed. The difficulty does increase as you go. My friend and I are just about done with Act II, and a quest is we had to travel to the Mellinium Battle. We get there and, Holy Crap, we have to fight in the battle. That would have been logically assumed but we didn't assume so until we got there. This battle actually killed my computer because of the memory glitch. Lots of enemies and they are big enemies. It's also a big open area which is cool.

My computer died and it was late so my friend went home and I haven't had time to play. Tomorrow we will so we're going to kill everything then. There will be much rejoicing.

I decided to buy the strategy guide for the game. I wanted some tips on item modding and such and I was to impatient to wait for GameFAQs to post one, and to lazy to look it up on the forums or something. The guide came with a sweet poster and helped me out.

On a side note, what happened to people posting guides on Gamefaqs? No one has posted any FAQs for Dead Head Fred yet, or Dragon Blade. I used to be able to find guides for lesser known games on there. I can find lots of Phantom Hourglass and Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles, however. I should write a guide for Dragon Blade. I'm too much of a perfectionist, which I guess could be a good thing. I would tell people where all the objects to be destroyed are, how many enemies to kill, etc. It'd probably be one of the easier games to write a guide for. There's strategies on how to beat bosses on the forums that I can steal from. I could do it. If I had time. Sadly I don't.

Some reminders. Call of Duty 4 comes out tomorrow, along with Gears of War for the PC. I'm picking up Gears of War tomorrow, along with Phantom Hourglass. Yeah I still haven't gotten it. Call of Duty, we'll see. Yes it looks awesome but I've already told you that War games aren't my cup of tea.

November 13th is sneaking up on us too. Lots of games there. Assasign's Creed comes out then. I forgot to mention it in my Honorable Mentionables section of "Games to the Video 2."

I'm going to work on a paper for Englsih.

See you in a week probably.