Hellgate: London combines the depth of role-playing games and action of first-person titles, while offering infinite playability with randomly-created levels, items and events. The player creates a heroic character, completes quests and battles innumerable hordes of demons to advance through experience levels and branching skill paths. A robust, flexible skill and spell system, highly customizable appearances and a massive variety of randomly generated equipment allow players to create their own unique hero.
The game can be played in either third-person or first-person perspective. Melee classes default to a third-person view, whereas ranged classes default to a first-person view. Precision aiming is not required to use most weapons, which can track their targets, “lock-on”, or carpet an area with explosives. The game also contains sniper rifles and other weapons that require accurate manual aiming, most are exclusive to the Hunter faction. The graphics are great, the action never stops, and it is very easy to find action in the game from the first level. I really recommend it.
v2.1 [Apr 26, 2012]
-A new quest line that covers the spread of the Abyss through Parliament Square and the survivors' efforts to fight back
-A major rebalancing of the Blademaster class
-A complete PvP overhaul, including achievements, rankings, rewards, and a new CTF team gametype
-Changes to the Shared Stash, such as a separate pane for each difficulty
-Addition of two new trinket slots for players to add rings and such to their characters
-An attribute respec NPC that allows players to remove points from an attribute for a fee-per-point
-Three new skills for each class
-A consignment house (read: auction house) where players can sell stuff to other players without direct trading
