The game that was Borderlands before Borderlands was Borderlands, Hellgate: London is finally returning to America. If you don’t know the story by now, it goes something like this. Flagship Studios made up of people who had created Diablo came up with a FPS Diablo clone. EA bought the rights to publish it and people got excited.
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Is The Faux-MMO The Next Big Genre?
October 23rd, 2009
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In 2007 Flagship Studios and EA teamed up to release the game Hellgate: London. Hellgate: London was a 3-D FPS Dungeon Crawler that much like an MMO had enemies that dropped loot, delicious color coded loot. There were rare enemies, hard to find items, bad ass weaponry that was unique to your character, and yes XP grinding. The difference between Hellgate and a proper MMO was that it could be played single player, like with no Internet connection, and yet it would still feel like an MMO