So I've been playing Hellgate: London since it launched (actually started a day before launch with the pre-order) and must say, it's much more enjoyable than I initially expected it to be.
It's also, to my surprise, able to run on my laptop that I use when out of the Curse office. This same laptop struggles to run games like World of Warcraft, so to be able to play Hellgate: London was a complete shock to me. That said, it's made me pretty happy on the weekends!
Speaking of which, I spent most of my off-time yesterday playing my Engineer. I've gotten to level 20 now, and am done with Act 3 of the game's storyline, moving on to Act 4 this evening. I hear there's unfortunately a bug with one of the missions in Act 4, so I may wait until tomorrow's patch to progress through that particular mission.
That said, there were some very neat levels so far in the game, including one that's designed like an RTS. This particular level begs the question: who did the voice acting for the units in it? They sound awfully familiar to the StarCraft Ghost unit, so I'm guessing Bill Roper lent his capabilities in voice acting to Hellgate: London as well. ;)
The skill trees for Engineers are very cool; I love the drone/bot pet system they have going, where the bots aren't targeted by attacks and the drone can actually tank, unlike most "pets" in other games. I've also speced a bit into "Smackdown," which has been incredibly useful against those "Regenerating" bosses since it has a stun component in it. I'll probably be creating a Guardian, Blademaster, or Evoker some time this week as well, so I'll make sure to report my progress in those classes.
I'll save screenshots for when I get to the office tomorrow and can take them on a computer that does the game's graphics engine justice, but for now here's the specs of my laptop to see just how flexible the game is in terms of systems it can be played on.
CPU: AMD Turion 64 x2 Mobile Technology @ 1.6 GHz (2 x 512KB L2 cache)
Video: "Up to" 512MB ATI Radeon Xpress 1100
RAM: 2GB DDR2 (shared with video card)
OS: Windows Vista
That's it for now; time to get back in and try to save London and the world from its demise!
