Comments on: White Gold: Nonsense Gaming At Its Finest

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:52:54 +0000

This game looks too bad to be bad.

If you catch my drift.

The anecdotes will be hilarious and plentiful.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:10:28 +0000

Heh I think it’s time to reinstall Boiling point and lose myself in it for a month before Far Cry 2 is out

By: roryok

roryok — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:34:38 +0000

I want to see a cameo from the midget with the floating briefcase.

By: Mr. President

Mr. President — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:22:37 +0000

Killer bees that eat through kevlar.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:20:46 +0000

Sweet!

This is going to make no sense at all!

Hopefully I’ll be able to fly a car upside down and then get stuck in a swarm of killer bees in this too.

Can’t wait.

By: Mr. President

Mr. President — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:55:01 +0000

I am now playing Boiling Point for the first time thanks to the RPS article – and I’m seriously loving every minute of it. Bought the game for the laughs, stayed because it turned out genuinely good. As far as ukrainian games go, it is superior to Stalker in many ways (well I’m not a Stalker fan to be honest). The game world is so free, and there’s just so much.. stuff to do.. None of the various game mechanics are even implemented particularly well, but together they create something much better than just sum of its parts.
Once you get used to this world’s rules, you can basically live in it, complete your goals in many different ways, including those not intended by the developers. Tired of driving across the entire country? Take a taxi! Can’t afford taxi fare? “Borrow” an AH-1 Cobra from the military… The chopper also has the ability to transform any sneaking or run-n-gun mission into a very satisfying B-movie mini-apocalypse… You’re clearly not even supposed to use the chopper outside of a few specific “chopper” missions, but who’s to stop you? There are just so many unscripted movie-like experiences in this game. If only it was less buggy and had some sort of decent story… Well, you can’t have everything, I guess..

Sorry about this wall of text, I’m just really, really impressed. I’m buying the sequel immediately when it comes out. Then I’m putting it on a shelf and waiting until at least a couple of patches have been released.

By: roryok

roryok — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:50:53 +0000

@Kanakotka

Just Cause was polished version of boiling point, with some ridiculous ninja moves in otherwise believeable game.

I take great offence to this remark. NOTHING about just cause was believable. Not the steering the car while standing on the roof, not the parachuting from the ground into the air (i’m reliably informed it actually works the other way around), not the jumping onto passing jet fighters and climbing into the cockpit, not the standing in the middle of a circle of over 30 enemies shooting and throwing grenades at you while your health depletes at the speed it takes to install windows.

By: whizzedoutwoz

whizzedoutwoz — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:44:18 +0000

Aslong as Voslo is onboard for the voice then im sold, I love this game already, and all for the wrong reasons, Boiling Point was broken in so many ways, but also one of the best games in the last 5 years.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:37:31 +0000

I still, after all these years, cannot properly run this game without restarting it every few minutes due to insane mem leaks.

Also, it greatly reminds me of Just Cause, well, Just Cause was polished version of boiling point, with some ridiculous ninja moves in otherwise believeable game.

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:02:02 +0000

@Bhlaab: Whether it will be GotY material at some point in the future has nothing to do with whether it’s a disappointment now.

By: Bhlaab

Bhlaab — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:40:48 +0000

To be fair, white gold probably has more in common with stalker than GTA or mercenaries

By: Sapper Gopher

Sapper Gopher — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:57:49 +0000

I wish Rockstar or Volition would take a stab at the new ‘GTA in a tropical climate’ subgenre, since everyone else has botched it(Just Cause, Mercenaries 2, White Gold probably). Have a plot about cocaine smuggling or something to raise eyebrows, otherwise just implement what those games promised but didn’t deliver. Maybe Just Cause 2 will get it right, sigh.