White Gold: War in Paradise explores the shadowy background of modern low intensity conflicts in the Caribbean, where modern high-tech weapons battle with a darker side of drugs and voodoo magic. The story revolves around a secret agent who has been sent to the Caribbean islands to investigate a rash of deaths linked to a new designer drug nicknamed "White Gold." However, the region is in the midst of volatile civil unrest, with six different factions fighting for control. Your character is caught in the middle, and you'll be required to tackle several missions for each faction in order to get to the bottom of this mysterious new killer.
Perhaps the best description of the gameplay of White Gold is that it appears to be a mixture of Oblivion, Far Cry and Mercenaries. While the meat of the game is in shooting baddies and operating vehicles, there is a fairly robust set of RPG elements as well. This is a meaty title, with at least 60 missions in the main story mode, and hundreds of side-quests and plenty of interactive NPCs in free-roaming environments.
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.
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.
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.
