One of the most anticipated game releases for this year would have to be Hellgate: London. A good portion of the team who were responsible for Diablo and Diablo 2 are behind this game. They left Blizzard and have created their own company Flagship Studios in order to bring Hellgate: London to the gaming public. We have a trailer straight from E3 for you and some new screens as well.

Hellgate: London will feature first person and third person combat. The team at Flagship Studios are incorporating customizable melee and projectile weapons. While the game may have the feel of a FPS the combat in the game is stats based. This will be a unique development in the hack and slash RPG gaming world. The game makers are promising to make levels which are randomly generatated and gameplay which incorporates large scale co-op gameplay.

The game is set in a post-apocalyptic London. Where demons and demon spawn have overrun the city. Only three factions have managed to survive. The Templar, the Cabalists, and the Hunters. The Templar arise from the secret society the Knights of the Templar. They use futuristic weapons with heavy armour and artifacts. The Cabalists use magic or the dark arts in combat. Hunters are ex-military operatives who used advanced weapons which blend the latest science and technology.

Features include:

· The RPG Authority – Flagship Studios was founded by the core creators of Diablo, one of the biggest PC gaming franchises in history– they are the first, last and only voice in the world of action RPGs.
· Beyond RPG – Experience new layers to the traditional hack-and-slash formula by experiencing the action RPG from the first-person perspective and through nontraditional character classes and play styles.
· Have it Your Way - Three unique factions with their own visual and gameplay style, offering something for every type of gamer, whether they prefer the longer-range blasts of the Hunter or want to get up close and personal with the Templar.
· Infinite Replayability – Dynamically generated levels, chance events and massive quantities of randomly created items makes for infinite replayability -- no two experiences will ever be the same and every game will be its own unique event.
· Mad Skills – Each faction has three character classes that contain a wide variety of skills and spells that are fully customizable.
· London Calling – Explore post-apocalyptic London, even darker and gloomier than usual, with shattered cathedrals and landmarks to the ancient ruins buried beneath the shell of a once-great city.
· Misery Loves Company – Don't be a glory hog – fight online*. Gather with friends or recruit strangers in Underground stations and venture out into mean streets of London together to erase the Demonic threat.
· Hell Never Looked Better – Hellgate: London features all of the latest next-generation technology to deliver a true, DX10 experience, while being fully scalable for optimal performance on older PCs.

* Internet connection required for online play.

It will be interesting to see what the team behind Diablo can come up with next. The mix of FPS and third person plus the randomly generated environments will be an interesting mix. Hellgate: London will be released on PC.