Bill Roper on the Hellgate

eToyChest has an interview up with Bill Roper, formerly of Blizzard Entertainment, discussing progress on the action-RPG Hellgate: London. From the article: "Hellgate: London is playable as a stand-alone single-player game, but it's the multiplayer components that we believe will really make it shine. We're building our own online destination for the game that is comparable in features to any MMORPG. This means a client/server structure to provide safe and secure gaming, character databases, customer service, guild support and so on. We want to provide ongoing content for the game long after it has shipped, and we're building both the game and our infrastructure to lay the ground work for doing just this."

I'm not impressed yet.

[MaWeiTao]

Not to be a troll, but for now it looks to me like a Doom/Unreal hybrid with a bit of fantasy thrown in for good measure. How many more games like this are we going to see? I wish there was a bit more creativity out there.