We still haven’t made any announcements regarding Hellgate’s official release date. It’s very common for retailers, and even gaming websites, to put in dates into their systems without knowing the actual date for cataloging reasons. If you look at GameStop’s list of games coming soon, and look at the later pages, you’ll see that dates are arbitrarily put for games to have them in the system.

Hopefully we’ll be able to make an announcement regarding the official date soon. Check the official site for more updates. Thanks!

-kaiser

Was wird an dem Spiel alles übersetzt? Werden auch Eigennamen eingedeutscht? Dieser Trend hatte ja schon bei anderen Onlinerollenspielen, z.B. World of Warcraft (Undercity -> Unterstadt, usw.), nicht nur positive Reaktionen hervorgerufen. Würden dann auch Klassenbezeichnungen wie z.B. Blademaster übersetzt werden?

Abgesehen von inhaltlich nicht relevanten Grafiken wird das komplette Spiel lokalisiert. Da wir im Moment aber noch mitten in der Lokalisierungsphase stecken, kann ich leider noch nicht definitiv sagen, was genau alles übersetzt sein wird. Prinzipiell ist es unser Ziel, alle Bereiche des Spiels zu lokalisieren, ohne dabei das Flair der Originalsprache zu verlieren. Dafür gibt es allerdings keine konkrete Regel, sondern es hängt von Fall zu Fall vom Gefühl des Übersetzers und des Teams bei EA ab. Für Hellgate London werden wir die Eigennamen der Charaktere mit ziemlicher Sicherheit nicht übersetzen. Die Klassenbezeichnungen dagegen werden wir lokalisieren, da viele weitere Texte auf sie Bezug nehmen und wir der Überzeugung sind, dass es deshalb sinnvoll und wichtig ist, deutsche Bezeichnungen für sie zu verwenden. Der Blademaster beispielsweise wird sich in der deutschen Version als Schwertmeister den Dämonen entgegenstellen.

 
Außerdem kann man gleich abstimmen, wer oder was mit dem Auto posieren soll. Unter den Antwortoptionen befindet sich auch Luke, seines Zeichens Product Manager für Hellgate: London bei IAH Games. Selbiger stand den Kollegen von PlayHGL für ein Kurzinterview zur Verfügung. Hier ein kurzer Ausschnitt:

What is it like to be the product manager for such a highly anticipated game?

Being in the Industry for close to 9 years now, it is good to be in a position to make decisions for a product based on years of experience. I have played HGL numerous times; at Flagship Studios and at the Taipei Game Show. This AAA title is going to be everything that everyone has been expecting of it and more. It is going to take the genre to another level in terms of appealing to all levels of being a gamer.

Update: Nicht nur Autos kann man verzieren - Auch Motorräder kommen dafür in Frage, wie diese Rennmaschine, die einen klaren Sponsor erkennen lässt: 

Gefahren wurde die Maschine von niemand geringerem als David Brevik, der neben der Entwicklung von Blockbusterspielen selbst Rennsport betreibt.

It has been reported that Mythos will be a free to download and play 'casual' MMO, why have you opted for this route and where will the revenue come from for the game?

It will indeed be free, and if we can do it right, you'll be able to experience all of the content without paying a cent. We do plan to make money, and there will be opportunity to pay us. We really have the goal to make this as painless and sensible as possible, and make sure it's incredible value. We have some good ideas, but I'm not ready to go into great detail about it.

In keeping with the Diablo experience players will control the game via an isometric view and a point and click interface, will players be stuck in a single viewpoint or will they have the ability to zoom and rotate the camera?

The game controls are almost exactly like Diablo. Right now, you can zoom the camera in pretty far, but it stays in the same overhead perspective. The game is designed to look at the world from that view, and that's the way it will stay. It would be easy to add in camera rotation if we want to. The topic has come up, and there are different opinions on the matter. My own opinion is that some option to rotate the camera might be good, if it looks like we need it. Right now, it doesn't feel like it's needed.

There’s PVP in the game, is there a storyline to it or is it currently just a game mechanic?

Bill: Right now, the PVP is pretty much more like arena combat and duelling. We kind of want to find out what it is that our players want out of PVP and how that would work with Hellgate: London, because the game is so different. That would be something we are actually kind of looking forward to building with our community. And we can always introduce a much deeper PVP model with storyline included and things. Our game world will make that, a little I think, interesting and challenging to do because it is really pretty much designed to be PVE. Where you are the humans and the demons come in, and there is not a lot of infighting, but even when you get to the storyline, you find out that not everybody gets along. So I think there is some foundation there to be able have some kind of story driven PVP as well.

[...]So I also want to talk a little bit about the future of Hellgate: London. As we move towards working on getting the game completed, we have a lot of additions for the game moving forward since we are an online RPG. We have many plans for supporting the game, providing things like updates and special events every month. Hoping to release the larger content based patches every three or four months, and intending on focusing initially on four ongoing patches and having a lot of things in these patches.[...]