Hellgate: London
was developed by Flagship Studios and co-published by EA and Namco-Bandai. The studio was founded by ex-employees from Blizzard North. Hellgate was designed to innovate on the ARPG formula exemplified with Diablo, and bring with it a hybrid 1st-person/3rd-person perspective. I was initially brought on board to help get a sound library created and organized. Once I was done with that I was hungry to make sounds of my own. I started off with some simple things like footsteps and doors, but was soon making sounds for guns, monsters and everything else. Hellgate really was a sound designer's dream project with the massive amount of sci-fi guns and demonic creatures. All of it tied together with a fantastic horror atmosphere. It's too bad the game wasn't a commercial success. Flagship shuttered its doors shortly after release.