Read about re-release this cult-classic from 18 years ago in our INTERVIEW with Ziggurat Interactive!
“We boil at different degrees.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Originally released in 2005, Boiling Point: Road to Hell is back. Revisit this early pioneer in the open-world roleplaying FPS genre. Upo...
Read about re-release this cult-classic from 18 years ago in our INTERVIEW with Ziggurat Interactive!
“We boil at different degrees.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Originally released in 2005, Boiling Point: Road to Hell is back. Revisit this early pioneer in the open-world roleplaying FPS genre. Upon finding out his daughter has been kidnapped in the pseudo-South American country of Realia, Saul Myers, a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, must head to Realia on a rescue mission. Saul must navigate through the Realian Valley; a region full of tropical jungles, farms, villages, and estates. Saul now has to manage to make his way through the landscape while navigating through dicey situations with corrupt politicians and criminal organizations to find his daughter’s whereabouts.
Manage your reputation. While there are no immediate enemies in the game, it is all in how you play. While the natural habitat of Realia can be dangerous, being home to snakes and large predators, there are six factions for Saul to try to satisfy. While these relationships begin neutral, completing missions can raise or lower your reputation with the Realian government, guerrillas, the mafia, native tribes, bandit groups, and even the CIA. But be careful, creating allies can lead to unrest and enemies elsewhere.
Create your own fate in an immense world
Over 240 miles² (600 km²) – affected by every decision and action
Drive trucks and tanks; pilot helicopters, planes, and boats
Select an arsenal of upgradeable firepower
Align with or oppose police, guerillas, South American Mafia, CIA, and more
Very fond memories of this game, bugs be damned.
It was a victim of its own ambition; open world, quests and side quests to complete, competing factions to placate or antagonise, inventory management, soft RPG elements that actually compliment the game very well... but it was buggy. Cyberpunk levels of buggy. Almost Skyrim levels of buggy.
But the game has charm and character coming out of the wazoo.
The combat felt very good, the driving was pleasingly arcade-y and some of the random encounters were lots of fun! I was driving through the jungle and a tree fell in front of the jeep... then another fell behind... then banditos popped out of the undergrowth.
I enjoyed it very much. Definitely worth a purchase.
The CD version of this game is still in my library, no more having to download a NoCD patch from a shaddy website to avoid plugging your external CD-player each time.
It's a very fun game that had me dozens of hours in over the almost 20 years I owned it, coming back to it every now and then to do a few missions.
It's very janky and buggy but if you like open worlds and FPS with RPG elements I'm sure you can have fun.
Today it's finally on GOG and not abandonware. Thank you.
Game works fine on a laptop with AMD APU 2500U without dGPU.
This game is what gaming used to be about: about crazy companies attempting to do many, many things, and unfortunately not succeeding in many of them.
When the final patches came out, while still definitely janky in many ways, it was now much more than just playable: it was really good fun.
OK let's get the bad out of the way: yes it was graphically dated even then, yes there are some weird mechanics in the game, all skills take forever to level up (they all level up via actually using them only), and some you will likely not ever get near max (e.g. trading).
But if you can look past that, and past the relatively-primitive yet definitely functional FPS gameplay, you will discover a game with so much to offer. There are many factions, you can do missions for all of them - but naturally this annoys their enemies. For most factions you can "reset" their negative view of you. Missions are fun, good variety, and the level design of the bases is really good - nevermind the cut and paste jungle around them...
The factions include: communist guerillas (basically FARC), the Government, the CIA, native Indians (peaceful to terrorist), criminals, the Mafia (basically Columbian drug barons), and civilians even.
The standout parts: there are many types of vehicles, once you're qualified to use them, you can not only drive cars, but also tanks, choppers, planes, and boats. You can even buy some of them, but many can only be used during a mission - but the coolest part is you can take a vehicle from one mission and use it to complete a bunch of other missions.
Also worth mentioning: if you complete a mission fully stealthily, you annoy the opponents MUCH less.
Also features some interesting mechanics, such as how loot and selling items is handled (basically encourages buying weapons, economy doesn't break like in other games even later on).
Truly one of the few RPGs to be set in the modern era, in a unique setting (Latin America). Also you get a bullhorn - best weapon! ;)
Have you ever played an open world game and gone 'I like this, but I want to feel TOTALLY immersed and I want every mission to feel completely different'?
Boiling Point has the fully explorable open world of an Ubisoft style game but then it goes the extra mile in every other area. This is like an 'extreme' mod for an open world Farcry style game.
Your weapons will degrade with use! You need to increase your statistics by gaining experience! You can't see enemies on the mini-map! Your car needs gas and repairs! You can become practically IMMUNE to health syringes! Your standing with the factions determines if they attack you on sight or deal with you! Enemy factions will routinely go to war, take over strategic positions, and even attack you if you interfere! If you want all the info you may have to talk to every NPC because they all have different approaches to the same topics! There's an exhaustion system!
Some of you probably tuned out, but some of you are interested and if you stick with it this game is amazing. Your path is yours here and the consequences too. Kill a quest giver? No problem: an opposing faction now probably likes you and will give you quests instead. Want to get through the jungle faster? Bring a car or hijack a helicopter or a plane from a military base. You can afford something? Go fishing, collect things from fallen bandits or soldiers, sell stolen vehicles, find black markets, do missions for random civilians.
Problems? A few. There's some noticeable hiccups. NPCs sometimes run in place or get lost. Not all dialogue is properly translated or voiced. There's some instability like ending up places you should be which usually just kills you. And this game is HARD. A couple bullets you're out or so severely injured it will cost a mint to get back on your feet.
But Boiling Point is special. Everything was thrown at the wall, and a surprising amount sticks.
This game, even in it's buggiest form, is just fun as hell. It still has some bugs, but who knows maybe they'll all get worked out over time now. I haven't witnessed any major game breaking or crash inducing bugs yet in this release. I'll update this if I run into anything major.
Anyway if you decide to try this out I for one hope you have as much fun with it as I've had in the past, and am having in the present.
This game is waiting for a review. Take the first shot!
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