Hellgate:London

[ima_nerd]

Got the demo and enjoyed it, though it seems to just kinda putter out (get to the first station, do a couple of easy quests, open a door... but though there's a zone past it that door it has no quests and there's never a 'now buy the full game' screen.

I couldn't tell from the demo how later characters will play - is it 'I have lots of points in xxxxx so I'll just use that over and over' or do you use a wider mix of skills based on the foe, cooldowns and equipment you have?

It seems to me that you'll be able to have more than one skill maxed out. The skill trees aren't that big and I didn't notice any sort of synergy system so multiple skills should be both available and viable.

After talking to a friend of mine who made it slightly further than me in beta before he stopped playing (level 13 to my level 9), it seems that it does, in fact, get harder at some point. Basically, even by yourself, mobs take more than one or two hits to die. This, plus Epic mode (I think that's what it's called. Mobs hit harder and have more life) and grouping up (Diablo style mob scaling) will make multiple skills and somewhat strategic combat a necessity, I hope.