Haha, what? Ziggurat Interactive has announced that they have teamed up with Big Boat to re-release 2005’s incredible kusoge, Boiling Point: Road to Hell on November 14, 2023.
This game and I have history. Back when it released, everyone was looking to what the next generation in graphics would bring to the open-world genre. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was still on the horizon with its big promises, but we needed something now. So, my tightly-knit group of friends and I started poking at Boiling Point: Road to Hell in the interim. Its world was advertised at 25x25km.
When Boiling Point first launched, it was buggy beyond reason. I’m pretty sure I tapped out earlier, as I didn’t yet have my constitution for bad games. However, at least one of my friends pushed a lot deeper into it. I don’t think he completed it.
They’d later patch the game, at which point it (maybe) gained a few fans. I tried it again at that point, and I remember getting into the open world before abruptly losing interest. I distinctly remember being in the middle of the jungle and thinking, “yeah, no.”
The game is about Saul Myers, whose daughter was kidnapped in Realia, a fictional (heh) South American Country that, if I recall, is under the thumb of organized crime and corrupt politicians. As mentioned, it’s an open-world game in an impractically massive environment. Big Boat is making “major improvements to the game’s stability” to Boiling Point to make this the definitive version. No widescreen, though?
This is amazing news. I’m not even being sarcastic. I’m going to have to find time to play this again. Maybe with my time-embiggened gamer brain, I can actually get through it.
Brace yourself because Boiling Point: Road to Hell is being re-released on November 14, 2023 on GOG and Steam.
