Others say...

"Admirable attempt"
This game has a decent premise, let the player run free while doing jobs for different factions. True, it's been done before, but never in a location such as this, everyone adds their own little tweaks. my biggest gripe with this game is that it looks horrible! i have a fairly nice gaming rig, athlon64 3700, 1gig corsair xms memory, geforce 7600 OC, as you can see, this rig isn't a puppy, i can run F.E.A.R, doom 3,far cry, half life 2, and oblivion at mid/high to high settings with almost no slowdown, this game looks like Morrowind and still slows down. The other thing is the voice acting, in the cinematics, it's ok, but in the actualy game itself, it sounds terrible. it's a game they could have done so much with, but for one reason or another, they didn't/couldn't. well, you all know how atari's been doing lately, and perhaps games like this are the result, or the cause.

"Still fun after a year and a half."
First, it's very important to update the game to the European retail v2.0 patch. You will be doing yourself an injustice playing the game without applying this patch. Second, if you don't have a decent pc, don't bother buying this game. I have an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ w/ 1.5 gb of PC3200 ram and I have to use the lowest settings available. Make sure you know if your system can handle it before you decide to put your money down. With that said, we can move on.

Boiling Point: Road To Hell is an incredibly immersive, detailed game. It's anything but your typical shooter where you have to perform a task before you can move on to the next level. There are seven factions with whom you can choose to ally yourself with. When you have finished doing all the tasks for a certain faction, you can always defect to another faction to gain more experience, make more money, build up your character's body (the stronger your character becomes, the more he can carry with him, increasing his inventory potential) and basically keep the game going.

The game is set in a fabricated South American based country called "Realia". Everywhere you go, the people always refer to you as "gringo", regardless of your faction status. If you curry favor with a certain faction, some NPCs might honor you by calling you "Senor Gringo", but don't hold your breath for that. The fun thing about Boiling Point is that there are no load zones (ala Morrowind or Postal 2), so you can run/walk, drive, swim, fly or sail anywhere at any time at your discretion. Since you are not trapped in a specific level until you finish a task, you can choose to leave the appointed task unfinished and even delete the task altogether. If at some point you decide that you want to go back and perform the deleted task, you can "undelete" it and go at it again. And the more you walk/run, the more you will be able to carry.

Sound quality is not very good. There are entire sections of dialogue where you have to read what the NPC or even your character is supposed to be saying. It's almost as if the game's designers were not finished recording all the necessary dialogue when the deadline came for the game's release. The v2.0 patch helps a bit, but does not cure it. Some sounds are louder than others. Gun battles on the roads will be much easier to hear than your character grumbling to himself when you honk at slow drivers in front of you.

There are times when it can get boring driving or flying a helicopter 18 kilometers to your destination. This is where a taxi can be helpful. You will need money to taxi, of course, but it can save you the headache of taking the time to get from point A to point B, and you are taxied to your destination immediately. Rain sucks. When it rains, you sneeze and lose 2 health. It's more difficult to see and hear when it rains, but luckily, you can disable the rain feature in the options menu (if only it were like that in real life).

Mountains are a bit tricky. You can either go under the mountain, fly over it in your helicopter or airplane or find the sweet spot on the mountain where you can drive or run up a steep, winding dirt road that takes you to the top. When driving vehicles, such as the Castell, at full speed and you have a head-on collision with another vehicle, the Casetll will only lose 2 points her hit, regardless of how fast you are going at the point of impact. Not very realistic, but preferable to having to get out and hobble away when you are under attack by an enemy faction every time you damage your vehicle. The health display is a lot like Deus Ex. You have to watch your arms, legs, head and torso and make sure nothing is orange or red. When both legs are red, you are going to limp around very slowly until your legs are healed. It's also more difficult to jump with wounded legs. You don't want to be abandoned deep in the jungle with a wounded leg to be chased by a swarm of killer bees, snakes, the occasional jaguar, and of course, your enemies.

Other than the numerous bugs and glitches, the steep hardware requirements, the lousy audio and the somewhat repetitive gameplay, Boiling Point is in a class of its own and there is currently no other game quite like it. This is the kind of game you can lose hours of your day on. I wholeheartedly recommend upgrading your rig to play this. Its worth it.

"patch before you play"
Boiling Point has gameplay similar to Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Mercenaries. It's a free-roaming fps with rpg elements.
I did the research before I bought this game and downloaded UK patch 2 to fix most of the problems before I even played it.
I have a PC with a 3.2 Ghz AMD Athlon 64, 1.50 Gb of DDR RAM and a Geforce 7800 GT with 256 mb of DDR2 RAM. I can run all games such as Battlefield 2 and F.E.A.R. with all detail and quality turned up to max with no performance problems. So far in Boiling Point I notice only an occasional minor lag as it loads more of the game. The graphics are good,.. but remind me of the kind of graphics from games using the Quake 3 and Unreal 2 engine. In other words,.. the graphics are about three or four years behind the times.

It's basically a slow paced game untill you can manage to stockpile some weapons,.. even then you need to level up your gun skills to be a badass. It's more about feeling like your in a huge living breathing virtual world where everything has consequences. I like that kind of stuff. If you don't then you might not like this.

You might as well just give it a try though for the cheap prices you can find it used. Just make sure your PC exceeds the recommended hardware specs and download all the patches you can find before even playing it.

"Boiling Point"
Good start, but the cut scenes and flakey action make it a pain to learn and finish. Overall frustration Factor of 10.

"I rather play San Andreas!"
I was looking forward to this game for a few months reading the previews on the game site.

Why? This is not a good game.

Bad graphics

Boring gameplay

To many bugs to mention

Stupid story

I can go on and on but there is no comparison with San Andreas.

If you want to waste your money buy that not this junk!


I rather play San Andreas.

AND YOU SHOULD TO!