My review and performance of BP:)

[arnoldu]

I just want to say this game is awesome! Sure there are some bugs, but other than stuttering sometimes the game is great! I have only played typical first-person shooters until now but that gets boring after a while so I thought I would try this one because I heard of the role-playing element. This is the first game I'm playing every minute I get, there is so much to do I just keep on playing:) No, I don't work for Atari or Deep Shadows. I'm just an average guy who thinks this game should get some positive feedback instead of all the negative feedback it gets. Hopefully the next patch will make it even better:)
Here are the specs for my computer:

Windows XP Professional with SP1
ATI Radeon 9600 with Catalyst 5.6
Intel Celeron CPU with 2.40 GHZ
512 MB RAM (DDR RAM)
Direct X 9c

I have ALL the settings on high except for those sliders which you move left and right in Video settings, I have those on the lowest settings. Except for a few stutters it works fine, the lower I set the settings the worse the performance gets for me. I also close all open programs and do a system defragment before I play or reboot right before I play. Any questions are more than welcome.

Thank you
Arnold Unrau

[NAM]

hi, i think most people dont like boiling point too much because they think its a racing game like GTA.
its not. or a shooter like Farcry, its not.
its a rpg-shooter hybrid game, more like Morrowind :)

While a more traditional shooter would just throw together a series of levels of blasting until you catch up with your errant child, Deep Shadows has essentially just made a valley and then left you to it hehe :)

So what do you do to find your daughter? Well, logically enough, you can start asking people about the town and then go and ask her employee. This uncovers clues and leads, which you can then pursue. Someone needs a favour before they'll tell you what's going on? Well, get in a car and head off to see if you can fulfil the need. Short on cash? Try taking on jobs for one of the representatives of the game's many factions. Of course, these endeavours raise and lower your standing with all the groups, changing how they interact with you later. The simple experience of heading across the map can radically depending on your earlier decisions.

And what a map. After the loading pauses every minute or so of Half-life 2 or Deus Ex: Invisible War, this freedom to roam is the greatest freedom of all, adding hugely to the atmosphere and the sense that this is a real place.
While not as beautiful as the verdant flora of Far Cry, its sheer size and your ability to genuinely explore it makes for a very different and immersive thing.

Combat & RPG
While the actual model for both combat and stealth is relatively simple, they're functional enough. And it's not really about the combat anyway, with the majority of the game spent exploring, conversing and working out what to do next. The most satisfying missions are the ones where, by examining at the situation, you manage to work out a clever solution rather than simply doing the expected. Just because the files you have to steal are in the middle of a heavily guarded Mafia base doesn't mean you have to kill every guard there.
In most missions you can choose between different npcs to visit that all can help you find out more about what you are looking for , in different ways. Some will send you on kill missions , others will offer you information if you pay them etc.
There are role-playing game-style stats, which improve through experience. Weapons can be customised to improve range or damage if you have the right equipment. Get drunk too much, and you become an alcoholic. Similarly, you can become addicted to combat drugs or medical syringes. You even get tired, and find yourself catching forty winks in your car before heading off into the undergrowth to complete a mission
What holds it back from even higher accolades is that it's one of the buggier games of recent years. However it's important to understand that for this sort of game, that's no real change. Any game which has attempted to be this freeform, this large and merge this many genres has always been as buggy as Boiling Point.
Gladly enough i never experienced any crashes , but read about some few poor guys on these boards , who couldnt even start the game due to crashes. Patch 1.1 is out and Patch 2.0 is coming in 1-2 weeks, promising an enhanced AI, better driving physics and adding features like repairing your weapons.
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