This knowing, gratuitous placement of things that go ‘boom’ and the comical way in which the cast of British eccentrics deliver the few lines they have is admirable Hellgate never takes itself too seriously. Lava erupts through the walls and the pavements are not populated with NPCs taking flight but, more entertainingly, with another gaming staple – combustible barrels.
The street levels are littered with abandoned police cars, burntout black cabs and upended phoneboxes. I love that the art style is so crisp, with a colour palette that’s not quite as drab as you might expect. This leaves the Beast’s hitbox – about the size and location of a posing pouch – briefly vulnerable so you can pepper it with ‘nut shots’ it’s about the toughest fight in the game.įlagship’s vision of a London that has been destroyed by The Burn and overrun by demons is a fair attempt at creating the chaos such circumstances might bring, and anyone who has spent the Saturday before Christmas shopping on Oxford Street will recognise it immediately.
This fight requires you to first catch him in the crossed beams of two light cannons, shrinking him temporarily, at which point he spawns a dozen electricallycharged Fellbore minions.
A boss with piledriver hands and a fiery breath attack, the Beast has been interrupting Templar communications. Another dispatches you to the Tower of London to kill the massive Beast of Abbadon. Wide, abandoned streets, pokey alleys, dank train tunnels, cloistered courtyards and subterranean necropolises provide a somewhat impressionistic (if sometimes accurate) interpretation of London, although Flagship had a decent stab at recreating reallife locations like St Paul’s and Covent Garden Market.Ī notable exception to the many fetch quests is a mission that places you inside the head of Techsmith 314, exploring the winding synapses of his mind, looking for the Limit of Imagination. Given the numbers involved, I can forgive Flagship for repeating a few of the dozen or so generic environments. However, you’ll be taking the scenic route through 200 story and sidequests that play out in around 115 locations. London Underground aficionados will know that from the game’s starting station, Holborn, it’s only two stops on the Central Line to St Paul’s, where the final battle takes place.
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