Hellgate London is not a bad game, but it is the biggest disappointment of the year.

The title showed so much promise: it was to be the first major project from Flagship Studios, the newly created team staffed by high level ex-Blizzard employees. With a Hellgate-Palladium this similar to Diablo created by the people who actually made Diablo, we can’t help but make comparisons, and unfortunately, that’s where Hellgate falls well short.