Hellgate: London (v2.1.0.4)

A demon-ravaged London becomes a hunting ground for survivors armed with swords, rifles, arcane focuses, and improvised faith. Hellgate: London blends the click-heavy loot chase of an action RPG with the immediacy of a shooter, letting you battle hellish swarms from either first-person or third-person view. Its near-future setting gives ruined streets, abandoned Underground stations, and shattered landmarks a grim science-fantasy character rather than a standard medieval dungeon-crawl. The mood is relentlessly bleak, but the constant flood of equipment drops and escalating enemy packs keeps the pace energetic.

Players choose from six distinct classes, including melee-focused Templars, gun-wielding Hunters, and spellcasting Cabalists, then shape them through skill choices, attributes, and an enormous range of weapons and armor. Missions send you out from safe hubs into monster-filled zones where clearing objectives, surviving ambushes, and chasing better gear form the central loop. Combat supports both close-range hacking and ranged gunplay, with shields, powers, summoned allies, and class-specific tools adding tactical options beyond simple clicking. Randomized maps, quests, monsters, and item properties ensure that repeated runs rarely unfold in exactly the same way, while character leveling gives each new piece of loot a reason to matter.

Its most distinctive quality is the unusual fusion of Diablo-style randomized loot with a perspective-switching shooter framework; few action RPGs let a mage fling spells over the shoulder one moment and aim down a rifle sight the next. The London campaign remains the main attraction, while the included Tokyo-era content expands the single-player experience with additional scenarios and gear to pursue. Age shows in the presentation and some systems feel rougher than modern loot games, yet the atmosphere and class variety still carry real personality. Hellgate: London suits players who enjoy Diablo, Borderlands, or grim post-apocalyptic RPGs and can forgive an older, more eccentric take on the genre.