Cold Fear

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• Brave dangerous waters - Rocked by huge breakers, you must steady your nerves - and aim - to evade a watery grave
• Keep your bearings - Battle against increasingly mutated enemies in treacherous, unstable environments
• Unleash a torrent of weapons - Create fatal traps and use shotguns, flamethrowers, or any object you can find to survive

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0007M69SS
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 1.2 inches
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: April 15, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,769 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

As seasoned Coast Guard veteran Tom Hansen, you've seen the sea swallow plenty of victims. But when you board a seemingly abandoned ship during a ferocious Arctic storm, nothing can prepare you for the horrors lurking beneath the ship's bloodstained decks.

Features:

• Fight your way through a blood-soaked nightmare straight out of a horror movie.
• Confront fiendishly intelligent and unrelentingly hostile enemies as the ship's deck lurches constantly under your feet.
• Unleash a torrent of weapons: create fatal traps and use shotguns, flame throwers, or any object you can find to survive.
• Take advantage of the ship's unpredictable environment to lure your enemies into fatal traps.

Product Description

In Cold Fear, you'll U.S. Coast Guardsman Tom Hansen survive unthinkable horrors and evade a watery grave, in a mysterious Russian whaler. The ship sent out a distress signal in a ferocious Arctic storm, as when Tom investigates he discovers unthinkable horrors lurking beneath the ship's bloodstained decks. Players must turn their interactive surroundings to their advantage to take down human enemies - and enemies that aren't human any more - to save their own life.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Camera and controls are the real monsters here..., January 2, 2006

By 

Jim Bettis (Fairview Park, Ohio, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Fear (DVD-ROM)

Remember Indiana Jones, TombRaider AOD and Catwoman? Remember how frustrating it was to play because of the camera? Welcome Back! This one's a little easier, in that you can press down on the right mouse button and get a cam view just over your character's shoulder. But, he moves clumsily, you depress the space key to make him run, but does he? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. My hands are cramping from jamming the space key. But the biggest drawback is the saves. Jesus, somebody tell me WHY these game designers NEVER listen to the gamers. I'm a little over halfway done with the game and I've played the level I'm on repeatedly for a good 30-40 times already. Mostly because the character moves so awkwardly and because of the camera. My neighbors are starting to complain... He doesn't move swiftly from side to side and makes it difficult to dodge the big alien life forms...But the most inufriating part of this game is the saves. Oh sure, you CAN save, once you get to the given save point. If you die before that, you can count on repeating long, drawn out actions like going back a long, long distance to rearm. AGAIN, as with the previous games I mentioned, you can't save when you get to a difficult spot and after you repeat parts of the level a few dozen times, you might share my frustration. The graphics are excellent. I'll give it that. It's also somewhat spooky. I like that too. In the beginning, when you're on the freighter, there's a map in the game guide to help you a little. But, there's NO map for the oil rig, so you can run all over the rig trying to find the right way to go indefinitely... Difficulty is ok, so long as you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure things out. I was lost for a fair part of this game, stumbling into the right path just by luck. It's a difficult game at the upper levels, but mostly because you don't really know what you're doing or what is expected of you. I couldn't give this game 5 stars because there was just too much difficulty with the camera and controls, and of course, the saves. Is it worth the money? I guess I'd have to say, I wish I had waited and purchased it used. For $5-10 bucks, it's not so bad. But at $19.95, I think I got ripped a bit. Buy a used copy. You'll thank me for it later. GrizzlyJim

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars VERY disappointing, November 12, 2005

By 

Linda (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Fear (DVD-ROM)

This game's graphics are quite good, and the action taking place on a rolling, wind & ocean swept freighter is novel. However, this game is completely ruined by the inability to move your character around via the mouse (you have to use the keyboard!) -- which means your character is moving around as if he were a main battle tank. And most of the action takes place in third person viewpoint, along with a moving camera at your back or your side. Painfully annoying!
There are also no maps in the game, so expect to re-tread old ground a lot.
You cannot save the game when and where you want -- and there are only so many save slots when you are actually permitted to save.
The game is rather short, but you won't really care about that, because most people will not even wish to finish Cold Fear.
This is one of those very poor ports from a game console, where the developers didn't care to get it right for the PC. They just didn't care at all...

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