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''Hellgate:London'' is a sci-fi/fantasy [[Action RPG]] developed and published by [[Author Existence Failure|now-defunct]] Flagship Studios in 2007. Many members of the development team previously worked on the [[Diablo]] series and went on to form Runic Games, creators of [[
[[Next Sunday AD|In the near future,]] [[The End of the World
The game focuses on [[London Town|London, England,]] [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the year 2038.]] The streets are overrun by [[The Legions of Hell|demon soldiers,]] [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]], [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]] and [[Hell Hound|mindless hell-beasts.]] Survivors dwell in [[The London Underground]], protected from intrusion by [[Alchemy|Alchemic wards]] built into the stations by [[Ancient Conspiracy|The Freemasons.]] Most people are just trying to survive in this nightmarish new world, but three large organizations are striving for change and searching for ways to hinder or even push the demons back: [[Church Militant|The sword-and-light]] swinging [[The Knights Templar|Knights Templar]] ([[Ancient Conspiracy|yes,]] ''[[Ancient Conspiracy|those]]'' [[Ancient Conspiracy|Knights Templar]]), the [[Gadgeteer Genius|high-tech Hunters,]] and [[Dark Is Not Evil|the sorcerous]] Cabalists.
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* [[Dual-Wielding]]: The Blademaster class has this as one of its gimmicks. Evokers have Dual Focus, which allows for wielding of two more powerful Focus Items.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Almost everyone who isn't suicidally incompetent is a raving psychopath. You'd think that in a demon-possessed future the latter would be a requirement for survival, but there are surprisingly many of the former still living. And sending you on [[Fetch Quest|Fetch Quests]].
* [[Elemental Powers]]: Not limited to the Evoker class, as all weapons deal elemental damage, beginning with plain old physical but including [[Kill It
* [[Elite Zombie]]: Many kinds.
** Grotesques, [[Golem]]-like monstrosities [[Squick|composed of many corpses stitched together.]] When slain some of the corpses will rise anew to continue the fight as standard zombies.
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** Siege Fiends, [[Giant Mook|massive,]] [[Universal Poison|poison spewing]] [[Half Human Hybrids|fusions of human]] [[Squick|and arachnid corpses.]]
* [[Enemy Summoner]]: Zombie Lords summon zombies, and can buff any zombie types, including each other. Flesh Golems litter the ground with Death Maggots, and can spawn those and Zombies on death, while Wurm creates hordes of Death Maggots and [[Keystone Army|fortunately takes them with him when he dies.]] Soul Reapers and Orbiles summon Polyps, and Bedlam can summon them all endlessly. Dunder Liches, including Flaw, summon 2-3 Fire Elementals.
* [[The Engineer]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Your [[Mr. Exposition]], who's been encouraging and feeding you intel the entire game, turns out to be a demon who stood the most to gain from your success.}}
* [[Expy]] / [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: ''Lots''. NPCs the player encounters include thinly-veiled Expies of [[William Shatner]], [[Patrick Stewart]], [[George Romero]], [[Terry Pratchett]], [[
* [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]]: Technician 314 gets attached to the Oracle. It doesn't stop him from talking, and when he's not speaking in tongues, he complains with every breath about the ancient demon with a deathgrip on the front of his head.
* [[Fan Service]]: The female Templar from the trailers, dubbed Avalon, appeared topless in a [[Playboy]] spread.
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* [[Hell Hound]]: The aforementioned Ravagers.
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: Besides their skill at melee combat, the Templars rely heavily on both offensive and defensive holy magic.
* [[The Hunter]]: Though many characters have this sort of focus, some of the ''actual'' [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Cabalists get the greatest and most exotic variety of weapons, including guns that shoot insects and tentacles. The Hunters get a 'ballistic cannon' which shoots [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|electr]][[Shock and Awe|ified]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|exploding]] [[Deadly Disc|sawblades.]]
* [[The Knights Templar]]: According to the [[Backstory]] [[He's Just Hiding|they've been been hiding all this time,]] [[Who You Gonna Call?|acting as a demon-busting service]] while maintaining a [[Masquerade]] that understandably [[Incredibly Lame Pun|went to hell]] when the invasions began. They went public pretty fast after that. They've upgraded their tech a bit, employing [[Powered Armor]] and such alongside their [[Holy Hand Grenade|holy magics.]]
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: The Marksman class has a skill with this exact name.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many from the [[Expy|Expys,]] among other things.
** An NPC named George gives you a quest chain that begins with [[Night of the Living Dead
** In the same station as George is a boy named [[Diablo|Wart who has you retrieve his missing peg leg.]]
** Hunters can use [[More Dakka|automatic]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|rocket pistols,]] [[Warhammer 40000|often called Bolters.]]
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