GameSpy’s Hellgate: London Coverage

GameSpy has dished up a character creation guide, two separate video interviews with Bill Roper, and a blog straight from hell to celebrate the release of Hellgate: London. A snip from the character creation guide:

The Blademaster is death in motion. This class is designed to appeal to those gamers who enjoy third-person maneuvering and managing a combat situation by controlling the location where the fight takes place. As a result, many of the Blademaster’s skills are devoted to dealing out as much damage as fast as possible or putting the Blademaster in the proper place to kill foes quickly. The most important talent chains for the Blademaster are the related Sword of Reckoning/Charge talents (Charge talents require levels in Sword of Reckoning). These allow the Blademaster to zip across the battlefield and launch devastating strikes in a hurry, before enemies can close in. At higher levels of this chain, talents like Hamper can reduce both an opponent’s movement speed and armor. The Path of Righteousness skill lets the Blademaster add damage to every enemy they pass through during a charge. Blademasters share with Guardians the ability to develop Auras, but these should mostly be avoided as they require the Blademaster to be surrounded in order to function. That’s a bad idea, as an immobile Blademaster is as good as dead.