Hellgate demo this week

By Robert Purchese Published 18 October, 2007

Either today or tomorrow.

Update: EA has waded in and said it will be exclusively available on Game Daily from 17:00 BST today, and available everywhere else 24 hours later.

Flagship Studios has said that a demo for Hellgate: London will be available this week.

According to its website it should be with us today, although everywhere else in the world seems to think general public will be able to download it tomorrow. EA was unavailable to clear it up.

It will be a single-player sampler that lets you test out two of the six character classes from the game: the Blademaster, a melee specialist who likes to get up close and personal, or a Marksman that prefers to keep his enemies at about sniper-distance.

Open to you is a snippet of the storyline to work through, and a couple of side quests to wander off on as you explore the streets and tunnels around Holborn Station - which opened in 1906 before being modernised in 1933. I like trains.

Hopefully it will all come together to give you a good idea of what to expect when the full action role-playing game appears here on 2nd November.

Keep an eye on that official website for places to download the demo from, or pop into our Hellgate: London gamepage for a better idea of what to expect.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (22) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Metalfish #1 4 years ago

    This better be more fun than it looks from the videos on EGTV.

    Hell, if this is half as addictive as DII, I'll probably still buy it.

  • Rizo #2 4 years ago

    I can't wait to give this a go

  • Triggerhappytel #3 4 years ago

    I'll be intrigued to see how this turns out - I was initially interested in it, but some really poor footage put me off a handful of months ago. Despite Flagship saying they're not releasing it until it's ready, I still think it could go either way.

  • VMerken #4 4 years ago

    A free sampler of the "spiritual successor" of Diablo 2? And of the single player bit, no less (the only bit I'm interested in)? I'm there.

  • Gurgeh #5 4 years ago

    The word is that Mythos, the game created as a testbed for Hellgate, has turned out to be better than Hellgate. It's still in beta but the positive feedback means it's getting more development.

  • UncleLou #6 4 years ago

    Your German sister site has reported it'll be out today, exclusive on Game Daily for 24 hours, and everywhere else on Friday. I didn't spot any hint of it at all on GD though, hm.

  • chicknstu #7 4 years ago

    I've never thought about this game before. But now that I do, it sounds like the best game ever.

  • idespair #8 4 years ago

    Demo is up, so downloading now. Quite well hidden on the site at the moment, but the link is:

    http://ww w.gamedaily.com/games/hellgate-...

  • Avenger1324 #9 4 years ago

    Downloading now. Can't wait! :)

  • CaptCastle #10 4 years ago

    Thanks idespair!

  • andymale #11 4 years ago

    up on fileplanet as well now

  • VMerken #12 4 years ago

    Thanks, idespair. Let's see what all the fuss is about... =)

  • PrinzPils #13 4 years ago

    Gamershell has it also ready for download:
    [link url=http:/ /www.gamershell.com/download_21548.shtml
    ]http://ww w.gamershell.com/download_21548...[/link]
    A bit slow, but steady.....
    :-)

  • ZuluHero #14 4 years ago

    hmm its weird - but i'm finding it kinda compulsive.. Its certainly different from different types of MMOs that ive played. The single player is a good taster - but you can clearly see that its meant for online play.. I reckon this game will come into its own in multiplayer... Im gonna play it some more to see if it grows on me :)

  • karstux #15 4 years ago

    Downloading 1.4 GB over http... that's madness. I just know my WLAN will hiccup halfway through and all will be lost. Does anyone know a site that offers this as a bittorrent download?

  • Laserbream #16 4 years ago

    I used Firefox with Downthemall! installed - I believe it results in less corrupt http downloads. Maybe I just got lucky though.

  • Trane #17 4 years ago

    Any others given it a go yet? I'm at work and wondering whether it's worth d/l when I get home =)

  • FlamingCarrot #18 4 years ago

    D'loaded it last night and really enjoyed it. Strange though as i run Vista and an 8800GTX it still wouldn't let the whizzy DX10 effects. Anyway its very good but with the Witcher out a week today i don't think i will have enough time to play everything...

  • M83J01P97 #19 4 years ago

    So am I the onlyone who found this a bit bland and not very interesting... but in fairness this is only a single player demo and not really acurate of what the final game will be. But so far... meh.

  • VMerken #20 4 years ago

    "3. Consent to Use of Data. You agree that EA, its affiliates, and each Related Party may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer, including without limitation your Internet Protocol address, operating system, application software and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online play. EA and/or the Related Parties may also use this information in the aggregate and, in a form which does not personally identify you, to improve our products and services and we may share that aggregate data with our third party service providers."

    Cool EULA. I think I'll pass this one.

  • SpeedyThing #21 4 years ago

    As a big Diablo fan I'm disappointed to say the least. Where's the atmosphere? How could the Diablo team (or at least lots of them) chuck out something so souless?

    I guess this shows that a talented team goes only some of the way to making a good game...

  • Amazing Bryan #22 4 years ago

    Ugh! I just downloaded this and installed it and it told me that I needed pixel and vortex shader 1.1 and my hardware supports 0.0.

    This is one of the only games I've been looking forward to for a while and I can't even play it. Looks like it's finally time to get around to upgrading.