Angel Dust on 24/7/2007 at 04:21
I've been very interested in checking this game out but have been a bit wary beacause of the bugs and stability issues it seems to have. I've noticed that sime patches are out now and was wondering how much they improve this issues. I understand that the game will probably still have its problems but to anyone who has played it would you say it worth the purchase with the patches?
Claws on 24/7/2007 at 21:41
It's very stable with all the patches, however the game gets boring very quickly. The play area is huge but a lot of the scenery is repeated.
Paulie007 on 25/7/2007 at 13:02
I liked the game concept and it had the potential to be really great but the awkward implementation made the gameplay so frustrating I just gave up on it.
maxmon on 25/7/2007 at 16:44
This game looks pretty good actually. I think they should make a remake on consoles.
Hell Kitty on 26/7/2007 at 12:58
I had quite a lot of fun with the game. With only the first patch I didn't have any problems. Mind you, I also had no problems with an unpatched DMoMM, so maybe I'm just lucky.
I remember being impressed with the variety in the missions.
The play area is huge but it is also horribly cut and paste. Every market, gas station, bridge, dirt path to a camp, road up a mountain side... it's all the same one each time. And with such a huge map you'll be traveling a long way without actually looking like you're getting anywhere.
When I first started playing STALKER it really reminded me of BP.
As for consoles, the sequel* White Gold: War in Paradise is apparently also coming to the 360.
I'm not sure if it's actually is a sequel, but it's definitely more of the same.
D'Arcy on 27/7/2007 at 23:21
I got bored with the game relatively quickly. The huge map, that meant very long times spent travelling around quickly put me off. But I still played through right until the end.
vurt on 28/7/2007 at 15:02
I had fun with it, not more bugs than any other games really. really underrated, especially considering how few free-roaming games there are out there..
DaveW on 28/7/2007 at 15:18
The play area is rather large and repetetive (due to how they made it, i.e they made one "block" of road and then just repeat it over and over, unlike the GTA games), and the action is rather cack - but I still think it's a really good game. The concept is very cool and the game pulls it off with moderate success. Oh, and all the "Gringo" talk gets repetetive. Really, really repetetive.
Anti-Social FatMan on 29/7/2007 at 09:49
i gave it about ten hours of play - with the most recent patches, on a way-more-than-rec-spec machine, i experienced 0 performance issues and 0 bugs...
but the game is so utterly flawed that i find myself thinking that simple gameplay elements are bugs - for example, you play a military veteran of ten years, and yet you begin the game without even the ability to fire weapons properly (which is represented by the guns locking up?)
or how dire the ai pathing is - just try and get a friendly to follow you
or, and this really was the icing on the cake for me, how the enemies refer to you as a she-dog - at least in the UK version... a... she dog? no one is going to censor the word bitch in a game of any age rating, and i think boiling point carries a 15 age rating, which points to bad translation - and if it's an appropriate representation of the rest of the game...
RPG/FPS has a tendency to do things wrong - either your bullets do less damage (that makes sense) or you have to spend 20 seconds lining up a shot that even someone who's never fired a gun before could probably make
if you gotta play it, though, then yeah - bugs are fixed... but your time would be better spent with stalker, if you've never played it
DaveW on 29/7/2007 at 10:04
I found Boiling Point more entertaining than Stalker actually. I feel dirty.
The guns locking up isn't to do with your character, it's because they're "worn". Buy a new gun from a shop and it won't do it - picking up guns from dead enemies just doesn't work. The worst part is that enemies don't suffer from the misfires, so it's completely unfair.
The characters refer to you more as a Gringo than she dog (isn't that in just one of the lines?). The rating's 16+ in the UK.
