White Gold follows Boiling Point's structure of enabling the player to go anywhere they choose and follow whatever missions they want. This time you're a mercenary, still played by actor Arnold Vosloo, in a South American paradise. Three large and six smallish islands hide a secret drug production factory - you're there to hunt it down and destroy it. Brilliantly, the reasoning behind this is because its potency is killing celebrities.
It's a close cousin to games such as Just Cause and Far Cry, but with a far more detailed RPG system tacked on. From the beginning there are factions to either appease or antagonise, including the military, mafia, police and civilians, and skills to level up.
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.
Didn't the same team make a very similair game called Boiling Point or something? And aren't they hard at work on another very similair RPG/FPS one space called Precursors?