Re-released but probably not fixed
Here’s a trailer:
The size of Boiling Point was core to its appeal. Set in a 25km square chunk of land, you could wander - and drive! - around a fictional South American country in search of your kidnapped daughter. Along the way you could chat to the locals and do jobs for six different factions, with a reputation system meaning that the nation’s government wouldn’t be too fond of you if you did jobs for the guerillas, the CIA not too fond of you if you did jobs for the government, and so on.
It’s real claim-to-fame though is its bugs; not just that there were lots of them, but that they were unusual, often delightful. Here’s a list of patch notes from Boiling Point’s first update, almost twenty years ago:
“Fixed: size of the moon” is poetry and has been lodged in my brain ever since.
This re-releasepromises"major improvements to the game’s stability", though there’s little specific detail about what is fixed or what features it might have to make it run better on modern machines or in modern resolutions. Not that I’m sure thatfixingBoiling Point would leave you with anything other than an old, sorta-empty game with a lot of crap shooting in it.
Boiling Point: Road To Hell will launch onSteamandGOGon November 14th.
