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Cold Fear for PC game reviews & Metacritic score: Cold Fear is the first action-horror title under the Ubisoft brand. The game is set in a dynamic environment on a stormy sea, including intense combat, intellig.
Terror at SeaThe Sixth Generation could easily be described as a golden age of horror games. It was a time that so many titles experimented with something new knowing full well the intense competition they had from Resident Evil and Silent Hill.Cold Fear was one such title that came out during this Golden Age.
Like so many, it tried to do something different while still being in a familiar setting. Also like so many titles, it never got the respect it deserved because of the intense competition. It was a horror experience that knew its audience all too well while also trying to do something different.Horror Game Icon will now look back at Cold Fear and reflect on why it was such a great title and why it has been forgotten. Welcome to the Eastern SpiritAfter a Navy SEAL raid on the Eastern Spirit (a Russian whaling ship) ends in the team being wiped out, the USCGC Ravenswood is dispatched to investigate. The crew boards the whaling ship and splits up only to be attacked. Tom Hansen is the only one to survive and now must figure out what is happening while also finding a way to escape.While exploring the ship, he encounters a group of Russian mercenaries battling other crew members who have mutated.
After finding a radio, he is contacted by a CIA agent who have been monitoring the situation. It’s revealed that the ship was a front being used by a rogue Russian General to experiment with a parasitic organisms.
Hansen must uncover the details about the project and prevent the parasites from being unleashed.At first glance, Cold Fear looked like a standard horror game. The gameplay was the standard setup used by most titles at the time. The plot along with most of the horror elements were clearly inspired by The Thing and Resident Evil along with the movie Virus (hopefully you know what I’m talking about). While not original, it was clear that this was more of a horror game for horror fans.However it had one unique gameplay feature that made it stand out, having players battle the environment. Hansen not only had to battle the infected but also cope with a ship in the middle of a storm. The tilting of the ship presented many challenges as players had to be cautious on deck or they were at risk of being knocked off the ship.
This elemental feature brought a new layer of challenges to the game that made it stand out.A Lost NightmareCold Fear was one of many titles from this Golden Age of gaming horror that attempted to take players to a new nightmare. Also like so many titles of its time, it was overshadowed by other works.
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For this title, it was really all about very bad timing. This was an era dominated by the Silent Hill and Resident Evil series while titles like Fatal Frame, The Suffering and pushed the boundaries of horror.In regards to Cold Fear, it all has to do with the poor release date. The game was released right between the GameCube launch and the PS2 launch of the highly anticipated Resident Evil 4. Having been sandwiched between the launch of one of the most influential horror titles hurt its sales potential.
Making matters worse was how unfairly critics compared Cold Fear to Resident Evil 4.Like so many other great horror titles of the time, Cold Fear fell into obscurity because it was overshadowed by more highly anticipated titles. Those who wish to try out this lost classic could still pick it up on the.Did you ever play Cold Fear and what are your thoughts on it? Let me know in the comment section.8Bit/Digi is an independent media outlet that providesan insight into the gaming community and industry of the Bay Area. Ifyou like our work and want to support independent journalism then wouldyou kindly support 8Bit/Digi by donating to our.
Single-playerCold Fear is a 2005 survival-horror video game developed by Darkworks and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PlayStation 2.PlotThe game begins with a SEAL team deploying on a Russian whaler, the Eastern Spirit, in the Bering Strait. As the team explore the deck, they are attacked and killed by something that literally rips them apart.Seeing his team is gone, CIA Special Agent Jason Bennett, who is supervising the mission, orders any other government vessel in the vicinity to investigate. His call is picked up by the US Coast Guard ship, the USS Ravenswood, which heads to the Eastern Spirit. The crew split into teams, but within moments of boarding, all but Tom Hansen are killed.Hansen sets out to explore the ship and determine what is happening.Gameplay.
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