Hellgate: London on E3

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The upcoming Hellgate: London has, unsurprisingly, been getting a lot of coverage at this year's E3. DaC reported on previews from IGN PC, ActionTrip and Gamer's Hell, to which we'd like to add one from Gamespot:<blockquote>We also had a chance to play the game ourselves, and while it does use your keyboard's W, A, S, and D keys along with your mouse to aim, and the game does seem to be paced faster than Diablo, it clearly doesn't require the manual dexterity you'd need in a first-person shooter. Again, Hellgate is played from a first-person perspective (and switches to a third-person perspective if you have melee weapons equipped) and you do use guns to fire, but your aim and how much damage you deal are actually determined by your character's skill and ability scores, similar to the way combat is determined in NetDevil's upcoming online game Auto Assault. Like with Diablo, the most effective way to deal with any given group of enemies is to strafe around them, dodging any incoming attacks and counterattacking continuously. </blockquote>Also very interesting is the coverage from the Flagship Follower, who're reporting on two E3 HG:L movies leaked through 4Gamers and JustPlayers revealing more about the RPG elements of the game:<blockquote>The camera then moves over and zooms to the character stats. You will notice four basic stats: Concentration, Accuracy, Stamina, and Willpower. Upon leveling up, you gain points that can be distributed to these skills. Below this, the camera focuses on a health value and regeneration rate. Also shown are Vengeance, Speed, Holy Aura Radius, and Critical Hit Damge Bonus. These will change based on the player level and the gear equipped. Vengeance is like a fuel for the character or a skill that uses the fuel. It allows special abilities to be used until your fuel runs out. One example that is shown in the video is the Incendiary Fuel, and epic fuel modification for weapons. This item will take 31% of the base weapon damage and change it to fire damage. Also, the item says "Vengeance is a flame which dies for lack of fuel." This means it will shoot fire until you are out of fuel. So, Vengeance is a secondary attacking function that a weapon has that uses fuel(think mana from a typical RPG).</blockquote>Link: HG:L E3 preview on Gamespot
Link: HG:L E3 preview on ActionTrip
Link: HG:L E3 preview on IGN PC
Link: HG:L E3 preview on Gamer's Hell
Link: HG:L E3 coverage page on the Flagship Follower
Link: HG:L E3 movie from 4Players
Link: HG:L E3 movie from JustGamers