Ashley_Pomeroy Posted Thursday at 06:54 PM I haven't played it, but I remember reading good things about... a game. From the 2000s. A bit like the later Far Cry games, with open-ended gameplay, but much earlier. It was apparently full of bugs but had an unusually large scope for a low-budget game. It was called... called... Boiling Point: Road to Hell, a Ukranian game published by Atari in 2005, recently re-released on Steam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_Point:_Road_to_Hell It had a 25x25km open world. It was infamous at the time for the patch notes, which included "fixed: jaguar floats across screen at treetop level" and "fixed: size of the moon". Is it any good? I have no idea, but apparently it was at the very least ambitious. I've been playing The Talos Principle 2 recently, and it reminded me of an old 16-bit game called Tower of Babel, by Pete Cooke, who was one of those 8-bit programming legends who seemed to fade away in the 16-bit era. Technically it's not an obscure 2000s PC game - it came out for the ST, Amiga, and Archimedes in 1989 - but it's really obscure and I remember it fondly. I finished it! It's one of those puzzle games where you control a bunch of robots who each have a different skill, and you could program them to perform actions in sequence, like the old Big Trax toy. Google throws up 49 results for "pete cooke tower babel" although I note that there is an iOS remake. But it doesn't capture the original game's nocturnal atmosphere. It came out around the same time as Captive and Archipeligos but seemed to just vanish into obscurity. The third thing I can suggest is Kane and Lynch: Dog Days, which is probably more famous now as the failed sequel to a game that resulted in a reviewer being unfairly sacked, but it had an unusually bleak, downbeat tone and a really distinctive look and feel. There's nothing quite like it. The video game equivalent of, I dunno, Chris Morris' Jam. 0 Share this post Link to post
