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Boiling Point: Road To Hell (PC DVD)
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4/5 |
Great game but...
(July 12, 2008) |
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This is a great game the storyline is good, the freeroaming is great and the side missions and other little things make it alot like GTA but in the jungle. There is however a downpoint about this game and thats the performance. It's very stop starty, sometimes it freezes when you get into cars other times it freezes while trying to shoot and after a while this becomes very annoying. Also there have been times that half way through a mission it just stops, then starts zooming up to the sky and not doing anything!! Although this is a good game i would only reccomend to ppl with very high spec computers! |
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4/5 |
Underated
(June 19, 2006) |
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I think that people judge this game too harshly. Although the graphics are weak and there are plenty of problems (including bad audio, bugs, and overly temprementel factions), this game is a lot of fun and is very in depth. I have only been playing for a couple of days admittedly, but once I figured out what I was supposed to be doing, got out of the town and started doing some missions I started to really enjoy it, and I'm lookin foward to playing it when I get back. the main problem for me is the glitchyness whilst trying to zoom in/aim your weapons. can be very problematic, and lead to dying lots and lots during combat. get used to quick saving a lot |
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4/5 |
Warm not boiling......
(January 31, 2006) |
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Now i saw this get released last year i think it was to a bad reception, initially most of the slating was down to the sheer bug problems and performance. Since then a new patch has been released which addressed many problems but has DEFINATELY not solved them all. First of, the game itself. A First Person shooter without a linnear gameplay. Its been tried before but never quite worked, this does. Its alot more fun, running around doing the game how you wanna do it. Its not open ended, as in there is a story to follow, but you dont have to follow it along completely. Ive spent hours just doing side missions and such. The game is full of good ideas, like you cant just jump in a helicopter and fly off without training, you have factions like Mafia and the government which you can become friendly with or enemies of, guns can lock and jam depending on the conditions, wildlife can attack you, the sheer size of the playing area is amazing!..... The gameplay is simple, slightly more advanced than a standard FPS because of the inventory menus etc. The gameplay reminds me of Operation Flashpoint, definately not as clumsy but you will get my drift when playing BP. The sound is what has let this down for me, ive had sound problems throughout this game, voices cutting out etc but thats a bug which hasnt been addressed yet. Graphic wise i found this very stable, no bad imaging or rendering anywhere so far after a good 10 hours gaming. Overall this game is good, very good, harder than the standard FPS but this personally is what keeps me interested, i dont like easy games. I cant give this full marks because of the bugs, sound cutting out, random crashes (mostly addressed with the Patch), and needing a decent spec PC to run this smoothly. If you dont mind a few bugs which dont become too much of a problem with the update, and you have a decent spec PC, pref an AMD64, lots of ram and a good GFX card, id advise this game just to see another view on the old FPS genre. A pity the bugs are there because this could and perhaps should have been a landmark game....... |
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4/5 |
Bad programming - Good game.
(November 13, 2005) |
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Boiling Point is at heart a very good game, however as everyone else has mentioned there are serious performance issues - to get the game to run properly you have to have the confidence to go in the .ini file and start playing around. There are suggestions of how to get the game running better on both the Atari and Boiling Point forums (and they work). The game itself is pretty good and the graphics with all of the options turned up are really quite pretty (though you get so much memory lag you have to turn everything off again). Boiling Point's RPG element is reasonably good with a fairly well told and involving storyline, there are minor irritations such as money being the solution to everything (realistic maybe but gets a tad tedious) and there is a certain amount of repetition in NPCs and environs (however most RPGs have that). The strength of Boiling Point is the FPS element which (once your character is levelled) is really good fun - and frankly what the game is about, much of the storyline is just an excuse to shoot respawning enemies. Enemy AI (on harder levels) is very impressive and at times it feels like you are actually fighting real people rather than NPCs. The other noticeable feature of Boiling Point is the forests and foliage which are as dense as they reallt should be and great fun to fight in. Boiling Point is then a good, fun game with a certain amount of depth, it is however doomed to be criticised as all FPS/RPG hybrids will forever be and the serious technical issues can be prohibitive. Also....why isn't this multi-player??? It would be a superb multi-player game and they even have multiseated vehicles in it. If you have the time and/or knowledge to mess around getting this to work properly then buy it - it is well worth playing - if you don't then you will just be wasting your money. I am very glad I did take the time to get this to work........and remember your Donuts. |
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4/5 |
A groundbreaking title...
(October 15, 2005) |
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...that has it's flaws. Boiling Point has been given harsh reviews both here and by the gaming press due to the buggy state it was released in, as I write this it is on patch 2.0, which, provided you have 1) a resaonably fast cpu 2) a decent amount of ram - 512 or more 3) a decent graphics card,which does significantly improve the stability and performence of the game. Forget the linear level-by-level design of many FPS games, this has more in common with Morrowind than it does with most of the 'shooters' out there- although it is very much an action game. If you take Farcry , downgrade the graphics a bit, and cross it with a good RPG, then you get something like this. You are in a game world that feels very very big, your path, be it lawman or criminal, is very much your own choice, you can master a variety of different weapons, vehicles and skills, and you can take your time to explore. You experience day and night, weather, alcohol and drug addiction, tiredness, bullet wounds, headcolds (!) and a variety of other things that make the game feel like its designers took the time to get the most out of the genre as possible. I highly recommend this to gamers who like the FPS, but yearn for more depth. You'll get both. Plus, there's rumours that a multiplayer mode will be added in a forthcoming patch. Boiling Point is one of the bravest games I've played ina long time. |
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