COLD FEAR
Cold Fear is a third-person survival horror video game designed by Darkworks and
published by Ubisoft. It
was released forWindows on April 29, 2005, in Europe and on May 17, 2005 for North America. It was also released for both the PlayStation 2and Xbox consoles on March 4, 2005 in Europe and March 15, 2005
in North America.
In Cold
Fear the player takes on the role of Tom Hansen, a former soldier now
in the employ of the United
States Coast Guardwho has been sent in to investigate a
mysterious Russian whaler, Eastern
Spirit, in the Bering Strait.
The
opening cut-scenes show a SEAL team
under the command of a CIA agent, identifying the ship and trying to discover its
cargo. However, the SEAL squad is slaughtered by an unknown threat. CIA agent
Bennett then orders any government vessel in the vicinity of the Russian boat
to investigate, and it is Hansen's ship which responds. As Hansen, the player
finds out that the boat is occupied by hostile Russian soldiers and by strange
creatures, known as "exocells", that use humans and other life forms
as hosts to
feed on and to use as protection from the environment. These parasites are
a threat from both outside and inside their host bodies. His investigation
leads to the mystery of the ship and its lethal cargo as well as the unethical
experiments which were being carried out aboard the ship.
A series of logs
found throughout the game reveal that Dmitri Yusupov, a member of the Russian Mafia, was originally using the the oil platform, the Star of Sakhalin, as a base of operations for
smuggling. When the drilling revealed the exocells, he had Doctor Victor Kamsky
work with him to turn them into biological weapons. The exocells proved to be a profitable pursuit, as the
prototypes alone was worth $150,000. Meanwhile, PavelBakharev developed
countermeasures to ensure the exocells did not gain the upperhand. As time went
on however, Viktor went insane, unleashing the exocells on the platform as well
as purposely infecting himself. The Eastern Spirit whaling
ship was soon found along with its cargo of exocells, and Barnett, taking the
opportunity to seize the cargo in hopes of profiting from the research, ordered
the investigation of the vessel.
In Cold
Fear, players can choose between a behind-the-shoulder camera angle or a
fixed camera angle. The game employs many scare tactics. For example, when
opening a door, a creature may jump out at the player, or while talking to
an NPC, a
creature may just burst out of his chest.
The conditions on
the deck of the ship can affect the degree of control the player has of Hansen.
Since the game takes place in the middle of the ocean during a storm, there is
a lot of movement as the vessel bobs up and down through
the rough seas. The cargo ship continuously banks left and right while Hansen
is walking on deck, making it more difficult to aim and to walk in a straight
line. In some instances, the ship rocks to such a degree, that Hansen can get
knocked down and potentially fall overboard. There are also many environmental
hazards, like swinging electrical wires and crates hooked up to ropes, which
are also affected by the swaying of the ship, and can easily crash into the
player. Waves crashing on to the ship's deck may also inflict damage on a
player's health. The game also employs a stamina bar, which decreases as the
player performs certain actions, such as running.
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