"Hellgate is proud of its roots. Think System Shock 2, Diablo II, hell, think Deus Ex too. For RPG nuts, there's that pleasing emphasis on items, equipment upgrading and stats. Not only whether you're using the right weapon - but of the thousands of possible weapon combinations and enhancements that get spewed out by the game, is yours any cop?.... The randomness of the game has already been touted. Random quest-givers, randomised dungeons, items created randomly from the Diablo-brand fruit machine of prefixes and suffixes (Immaculate! Mace! Of Smashbastardry!) It's the promise of taking that old-school appeal, adding one dimension and subtracting two persons in a gritty, gorgeous Steampunk London that's providing us with unpardonable titillation."