Hellgate: London (HL) was a game that was released a few years ago. It was much hyped and had much promise, but it died and took Flagship Studios with it.
HL takes place in the future. Hell has run over onto the Earth and has driven the survivors underground (at least in England, I don't know if they even mention what happens anywhere else). People are living in old subway stations and sewers. Human factions begin to form, ex-military are considered Hunters (Hunters are broken into 2 classes). The Templars have come back into public knowledge as modern day Knights (again broken into two classes). Since Hell is on the Earth some humans have found that they can manipulate magic (yes, broken into 2 classes).
The way the idea of the game was explained to Me was that it was supposed to be a futuristic Diablo in 3d. In fact, Flagship studios was an offshoot of the original people who created the Diablo series and had worked on Warcraft and Starcraft.
The game itself is a fairly straight forward RPG where you follow missions and what not. I bought the game when it was released and played for a short while. The game was flat out buggy. But it was visually very good and kinda fun... but I guess I lost interest. At that time the company was floundering because they rushed the game to market too early figuring they'd patch it later, they also had a weird business model. Flagship figured they could make money by charging an online subscription, but they also wanted people to be able to play online for free.... so they just couldn't make it work both ways and the money they had raised to the develop the game was spent much faster than they could make more money. So Flagship folded, patches are no longer available (ok, they are but you have to look for them) online play may still be available because there is a rabid fanbase and I believe there may still be game servers in S Korea.

Since I'd stopped playing the game I had re-built my desktop, and now it's a fairly powerful 64bit gaming machine.... I noticed that HL had a 64bit version included in the original packaging. I figured what the heck, I'll give it a shot.
WOW! What a difference. The game play has improved because my machine can handle it easily, it's a beautiful game. There is some good humor built into the game (not everyone may get the McKenzie brother and/or Morrissey jokes, but it's in there (and more)). So I'm a little sad because this game could have been great... could have been a franchise as far as I'm concerned... maybe even a MMORPG
The game still has it's issues, somethings just don't make sense. Some of the missions are clunky to finish, some of the sets while beautiful are repetitive, as is some of the action...
But, given more time and money this could have been a great game...
Too bad

Huh. I just picked this up for a few bucks. I didn't know there was a 64bit version. I will give it a shot.

Quoted from Jenner

Huh. I just picked this up for a few bucks. I didn't know there was a 64bit version. I will give it a shot.

it's buggy and there's no support... but plenty of fan love on the net...

i used to play warlords battlecry III
it was an alright game, it got repetitive. the online play dependied on how strong your hero was. a strong hero could wipe out an entire enemy army. i biult my hero into a tank and he laid waste to everyone. a cool feture was that your surviving troops biult experience and you could take them with you into different campaigns and skirmishes. the longer you kept them alive, the stronger and faster they became. i had a knight that could kill half an army before he was in danger of dying and he was fast enough to outrun anything on the map. that was the last pc game i played and that was years ago.