Ambitious PC games rarely come without a host of problems. Boiling Point, a fusion of firstperson shooter and roleplaying game, is no exception to that rule, shipping with so many issues that its unplayable out of the box. The Deep Shadowsdeveloped game is crazy buggy, with frequent crashes, routine corruption of save files, vanishing nonplayer characters that makes it impossible to complete quests, and lots of other extreme weirdness, including the ability to destroy a police station with a single crossbow bolt. A recent patch eliminates the save bug and most of the quest and graphical oddities, but at present this game remains proudly unrefined.

Red is an aging scam-artist who s just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred.