MMORPG wannabe wannabe?
NPCs in this game are not interesting and seem worthless. Its hard to develop any care or interest in the characters you will meet. Not like good ol Griswold. The missions they give are all run of the mill, no thought tasks. Tasks like go fetch items, or kill a certain boss or number of monsters. The missions do vary but they boil down to the same thing, go someplace and kill everything, then return to base.
The items in the game are also bland in spite of their abilities or looks. There are a lot of different items, but some are completely redundant compared to others, even when they are the same lvl. Though there is much to do with the items like breaking them down or modding and constructing a new weapon, it just doesn't feel important or satisfying.
The skill system is cut and paste from diablo II. A lot of the skills in Hellgate are exactly the same as diablo, like aura of thorns or the bonespear. Nothing feels new or original. Setting skills or attribute points can be frustrating at times due to the fact that you cant undo any selection you have made to your skills. Once you click something to add a point to it, its permanent, even if you accidentally clicked it while browsing your character sheet you cant undo it. The lack of a basic function like that is absurd and seems incompetent.
The story is bad. There is no real info or background of what is going on other than the evil came and the humans fight it. The weapons and items have no description of who made them or what they are how or why they came to be. Everything feels unconnected and when big evens happen its seems irrelevant.
AI is Basic at best. If an enemy sees you it attacks you until its dead. Enemies make no effort to hide or mislead you and will not take cover or run from you.
Multiplayer is bugged up and just as unsatisfying as the single player and any traces of a story are completely lost.
I have no real desire to finish this game. I'm not interested in the ending or anything. The traces of Diablo will, if your like me, make you sad in the realization that you had way more fun playing Diablo the first time around than you are now with its predecessor. Been playing PC games since 1994 so I have played a lot of awesome and pitiful games.
Overall this game feels like a free MMORPG with a hobbled together single player campaign. This game is generic with sprinkles on top. You could buy this game, but you would be sorry like me.