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8The guys at GameSpy have thrown up a new Hellgate: London preview. The game was shown at Namco's pre-E3 event, and the article offers impressions of the game and the Cabalist class. IGN also has a preview.
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Most notably, there will be a mini-game that plays itself out as you progress through missions. As you know, action-RPGs like Hellgate revolve around the constant, relentless slaughter of horde-upon-horde of monsters. The mini-game will attempt to add a bit of reason to it (or, at the very least, another layer). It works like this: when you kill a monster, you'll initiate a combo. On your interface will appear an icon corresponding to a different monster "family" -- "spectral" for ghostlike ones, "necros" for undead, "beast" for, err, beastlike ones. Your job is to make the next monster you kill one that falls into the family whose icon is lit up on your interface. Do this enough times, and the monster at the end of the chain will yield some kind of bonus, be it a temporary stat buff, a rare item, increased experience, or what have you.
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Sounds like a solid addition to the hypnotic Diablo formula. Sweet!
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Namco is primarily a console publisher and while there are piracy issues with consoles of course, I don't think they're on quite the same scale as PC piracy issues, so Namco might go a bit overboard with copy protection on PC releases.
All that said, HG:L will be largely an online game. CD key authentication may be all they require. The game has a single player component, but something as brutal as StarForce may not be something that Namco feels is neccesary.
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However, their publisher Namco has used starforce as recently as the Curious George game that coincided with the movie, and most publishers tend to stick to one copy protection scheme.
I sent Flagship an email a few weeks ago asking about their copy protection plans and recieved no response. It would be comforting if somebody would ask them about this in an interview.
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I want Hellgate. I want it badly. I'll be sad if it's infected.
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