Hellgate London

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When I first saw the HELLGATE LONDON trailer, my jaw dropped to the floor. *Not literally. It was like watching Final Fantasy the movie. This game looks amazing. Even if those arent true in-game graphics, I saw the screenshots. The first thing I thought of when seeing the hideous flesh monster in motion, was DOOM 3. It was grotesquely realistic to see the female character plunge her magic sword into the monster and see the organs spill out like spaghetti and meatballs. Even the sound for it was gross. If you ever remember playing the "Flesh Consumed" episode in classic DOOM. This is like a demon that symbolizes that episode IMAO. Its even uglier than the Mancubus from both classic and new DOOM 3. This game is like DOOM 3 RPG style. The monsters and demons all have both a Quake and DOOM appearance. Not that I like to say all game demons look the same. But, it can be quite a task trying to make a totaly different kind of demon, without having some similar characteristics. The truth is concept artists, like myself, try to focus on the characteristics that make the character believable. Even if it is a fantasy. Thats why so many monsters in games have similar characteristics. They are based on animal and human forms. Except for a few alien like characters, that can be more flexible in characteristics.
And it doesn't bug me to see the demons having slight simularities to DOOM 3 and other game demons. Because this game looks awesome.