Game News New Game: Boiling Point

[Vault Dweller]

Tags: Boiling Point: Road to Hell

<a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com>TVG</a> <a href=http://www.totalvideogames.com/pages/articles/index.php?article_id=6602>reports</a> that Atari got the publishing right to a first-person RPG dramaticaly called Boiling Point: Road to Hell, previosly known as <a href=http://www.deep-shadows.com/en/xenus_overview.html>Xenus</a>. The game is being developed in Ukraine by the creators of Codename: Outbreak
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From the official site:
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<blockquote>There is no level or ammunition selection. You just press "Start Game" button and begin to play. All actions take place on a huge not-subdivided territory 25x25km. There are no "locations" in Xenus. You may freely move on the territory. Due to the big size of the game world we introduce different vehicles: helicopters, different kind of cars, tanks. All of them are drivable. Xenus is not another 3D action game with some elements of RPG. It is really both RPG and action. Killing is not the goal of the game. Your goal is to find the sister, so you need to talk with many people to gather necessary information. And these people will not be always friendly to you. There are no predefined enemies in the game. There are a lot of characters but almost all of them are neutral to you at start. Actually, there are six sides in the game: officials, guerrilla, narco mafia, Indian, bandits, CIA. When you help to one of the side you inevitably spoil your relations with others. In the world of Xenus everything costs money. Therefore you have to purchase weapons, ammo, armament take a car for a rent. Money is also helpful to get necessary information.</blockquote>
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Dealing with narco mafia and CIA definitely sounds like fun
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[xemous]

looks like a stalker clone

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Xenus is not another 3D action game with some elements of RPG. It is really both RPG and action.

Riiiight.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Multiplayer in cooperative and team games

Yay.

 

[Sol Invictus]

While I don't know much about this game, I just hope that they don't take Cooperative out at the last moment. id Software did that with Doom 3 and made it 'exclusive' for the X-Box version and that pissed everyone off.

 

[RGE]

Finding your sister? That reminds me of Elsie Hooper, with exception for the aliens. Although, with a previous name like "Xenus", who knows?

 

[Stark]

this game comes right out of the blue. the release date stated is March 2005... assuming this is a realistic date it might very well come out before Stalker, which makes Stalker an imitation instead.

I fail to see the rpg part though. and the screenshots look horrible.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Xenus is not another 3D action game with some elements of RPG. It is really both RPG and action.

Do they expect us to fall for that again?

 

[Fez]

I've heard about this game a while ago I am sure. When I looked into it then it seemed to be a pretty good concept. Not just a Stalker clone either. It had more involvement with NPCs and factions than Stalker is promising. Of course I'll have to wait until some review code is released before I can know if the game will good.