It’s heartbreaking. An impressive game that falls short on so many levels, only because it tries to reach so far. Factions, economy, side quests, a huge, lush world and even semi-destructible buildings, all make it seem like it could be a truly brilliant game, but the further you get from the (mostly) workable start, the more and more apparent it becomes that the game is broken.
Deep Shadows has announced a sequel to the great "Boiling Point: Road to Hell." For those who aren't familiar, "Boiling Point: Road to Hell" was a critically acclaimed title released in 2005 for PC. It was a mixture of the role playing and sandbox genres. Now, it is finally receiving a sequel entitled "White Gold: War in Paradise."
Despite all the loose ends, there's something innately promising about White Gold. Even though you'll chuckle at the crooked animation and the lines of powdery, white 'adrenaline' you'll loot from corpses, there are more ideas in here than most other open-world shooters.
PC Zone writes: "I was determined not to harken back to White Gold's predecessor when writing up my impressions of the open-world shooter, but when you're sprinting down a road being chased by a disastrously animated snake, it's hard not to conjure up memories of Boiling Point's hovering death pumas.
The preview code I've been playing is rough as hell (yet thankfully stable), with some outlandish placeholder translations and legally dubious game assets too - a sound effect from Windows 95 when you level up and a near-perfect recreation of a Canon 30D digital SLR camera being my favourite copyright infringements."
This was released!? Jesus, that's such a shame. Few years ago it seemed to garner a bit of attention and I just figured it went off the radar for more in depth development. Finding out it was just haphazardly kicked out like this is actually really disheartening.
Damn.
Short review, saw it yesterday. This game is great, just install the community patch.