
It all sounds good, and in reality it all performs very well. Right away your thrown into a small South American town with the ability to go anywhere and do whatever you want. The first thing that's quickly noticeable upon entering the game is the huge environment. Of course, once you're finally done there are plenty of reasons to go back in and try it again. It can last an easy 40 hours of gameplay going straight through thanks to the many missions, submissions, factions to join, items and weapons to buy and sell, areas to explore and more. With so many things to do, the replay value is definitely high here. There's just so much going on at once that you don't know what to do first. Boiling Point: Road to Hell contains so many different features and free-roaming abilities it'll make your head spin. We'll start with the good points before listing the problems with this title, because there are many good points about this game. Ok, so maybe that subtitle is starting to make more sense, but honestly it wasn't exactly necessary. Whether he's tough or not, Saul Myers has a long road ahead of him to finding his daughter, all whilst being surrounded by a hellish atmosphere, corrupt individuals and wars. A true vigilante, he's like Rambo as he reaches his "boiling point" of anger. Who cares about calling the police for help? Saul Myers wants to handle this on his own.

His daughter, a reporter working on assignment, was last seen in a remote area in South America. In this case, Saul Meyers is a decorated legionnaire searching for his daughter. The problem is that Boiling Point: Road to Hell attempts to take the features of such titles and combine them all into one great action/RPG, but unfortunately it doesn't turn out as well as they hoped.īoiling Point has the same type of cliché storyline that you can find in many action games, where the main character is ex-military and is looking for revenge. While playing Boiling Point, it sometimes feels a lot like other titles that have entered this area of gameplay before, such as the Deus Ex series, the Grand Theft Auto series and even a few takes from Far Cry. It looks as if they have achieved their goal, albeit with a little incentive from some other franchises.

Deep Shadows' main goal was to create a huge sprawling environment with no load times whatsoever and plenty of areas to explore. Formerly known as Xenus, Boiling Point began production around 2001 and has certainly evolved a lot since. Bad subtitle or not, Boiling Point is in fact the long-awaited action/RPG title from developer Deep Shadows. Despite its name, Boiling Point: Road to Hell has absolutely nothing to do with hell, and after playing the game for quite a while you'll actually notice that this subtitle is rather useless. No, it's not another DOOM III expansion pack.
