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The Japanese version of Hellgate: London was available for play at Namco-Bandai's TGS 2006 booth. Three character classes at varying levels could be chosen in this build, and we went with a level 10 character. Wielding dual katanas, this guy seemed like the coolest choice anyway. A safe zone was the first thing that loaded. Wandering around we found a number of NPCs willing to engage us in conversation, though didn't understand any of it since we can't read Japanese. As a result, we went outside to hit enemies with swords.

The first minutes of play put immediately in environment: a catch in fast and effective hand, a tunnel of subway (we are in London) filled with disasters - and aggressives - small beasts, and especially the feeling which one did not finish pressing on the trigger. The waves of enemies follow one another at rather constant intervals, with obviously this style very diablo-like (since it is well as that which the play is presented) which wants that an enemy commits suicide with an extreme facility... in any case concerning the simplest monsters. These are only these that we met during our meeting of demonstration, and they had d�ja the advantage of being rather varied. Obviously it is a question of collecting many the items quickly released with the passage (weapons, armours, etc), and one thus advances rather quickly - initially in the subway then in the devastated streets of the English capital.

Game Watch: Please teach the basic specification of multiple play mode.

Roper:With the stand-alone game is not possible, community function only of the multiple player game, it makes the economic system and densely it is. Especially inside the group to make the human relations where the user is smooth in regard to fight and the community, of the kind of surface which becomes easy is thought carefully.

Game Watch: The multiple play mode "of Hellgate:London" has imagined the game design like MO+MMO like "Guild Wars". It probably is how to become final in regard to the specification of multiple play mode?

Roper:There is MO and a MMO each element. "Guild Wars" is the circumstances sale of expansion such as 1 year later from substance sale, but you think that with Flagship we would like to keep renewing on occasion. In addition, when "Guild Wars" is, keeping appearing in battle in 8 human plays, 3 people coming out midway, the stripe uninformed, you play the level with 5 people not to obtain, level being too high, there is a weak point that the user stops being able to keep being attached to the level of stage.

"Hellgate: With London ", the part of that is made soft. It is possible to add 3 people whom it comes out midway, while playing. In addition, remuneration becomes equivalent of 5, but degree of hardness going down to equivalent of 5, it is possible to keep continuing QUEST. Making the friend list and the guild list, those where the user is easy to make the group, to participate is easy, have become major feature of multiple player mode.

Game Watch: Lastly tell concerning service schedule.

Roper:First closed beta it is the schedule which in North America is started to end of year. That while gradually keeping expanding contents, also the reaction of the user asking, it keeps developing the game itself. Especially until tight it is not the case that you think of scheduling, satisfaction it is finished in the contents which go, it is the intention of keeping boiling down contents thoroughly.