4/20/2020 Cold Fear Ship
Cold Fear is a game that was first released back in 2005 so please keep that in mind. This is a survival horror game and it was a fairly decent hit when Ubisoft first put it out. When the game was first released, I played through the original Xbox version of the game, but recently I sat down and played through the PC version of the game and wanted to share my thoughts on how this game from 2005 holds up. All AboardThe story of the game is pretty great and while I enjoyed it I do think that the fact it came out within a year of Resident Evil Deal Aim.
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Cold Fear sees you take the role of Tom Hansen, a U.S Coast Guard with the arduous task of searching through a Russian whaling vessel. Cold Fear (literally “cold fear”) is avideo gameofaction-adventuredeveloped byDarkworksand published byUbisoftonPlayStation 2,XboxandWindowsin2005. This type of game survival horror takes place on a whaling ship in distress at sea when a Coast Guard named Tom Hansen must escape mutants and monsters that haunt the ship.
The story never got the attention it deserved. Basically, you are playing as Tom Hanson, a fine gent who is part of the coast guard and he heads out to sea to help a Russian whaler that is in trouble.Once aboard he is part of a nightmare! There is a parasite on the ship, turning people into monsters! What is even worse is that the Russian mafia and the CIA are involved with this and the ship is heading to the mainland!
You need to stop this from happening and get to the bottom of what is really going on. It is a pretty solid story and the voice acting is a bit cheesy, but I feel for the most part they really nail the story. First & Third PersonThe gameplay of Cold Fear like the story is kind of similar to what Capcom did with Resident Evil Dead Aim. You move around this ship in the third person, but you can then go in the first person when you are using your weapons. The game is very action-based, but there are some puzzles and mysteries for you to figure out too. The gameplay is nothing spectacular in all honesty with you, especially or a game that came out in the shadow of not just Resident Evil Dead Aim, but too.
The Ship Creaks!Setting the game on an old boat is really cool. The boat rocks back and forward and it is something I really liked. Back in the day when I played this, it could make things in the area you are in kind of glitchy, but on the PC this was not as bad, even though it did still happen.The presentation of the game is pretty solid and I love this ship!
It is a messed-up place to be and you do have a sense of horror the whole time you are playing the game. Seriously for a game released nearly 15 years ago, it holds up surprisingly well in the presentation department.I think that Cold Fear is a decent enough survival horror game.
It has a nice mix of action, puzzles, exploration and so on. Plus the story is something that I really did enjoy. I was surprised at how well the game held up in the visual department. The gameplay may be a tad rough as it is a game that came out in 2005. However, if you like horror games I do feel that this one here is worth checking out.7.5/10Pros:. The presentation is pretty good still. I loved the story.
The setting of the boat is really cool. Some great looking monsters to freak you out!. I like the mix of first- and third-person gameplayCons:. A few graphical glitches here and there when the boat moves.
Controls may feel a bit clunky to some. Coming From Darkworks, who, with spawned the whole survival horror genre, Cold Fear is an atmospheric action-adventure set on a ghoulish Russian whaling ship caught in a bitter storm. The constantly-swaying ship and environmental effects are excellent, and the mutated creatures are suitably rotted and lurching, allowing you to execute some satisfyingly gory headshots and blood-spattering.However, Cold Fear is severely hampered by a terrifically awkward control system, random save points, poor object interaction and rather generic puzzle-solving gameplay.
Keycards from dead sailors? Come on - this is 2006, not 1996. Not terrible, but you'd be better off saving your cash and ammo for the forthcoming PC release of the infinitely superior.
Collected via e-mail, 2002A man finds himself locked in a walk in freezer. He is convinced he will die and begins writing letters. His letters end with a final passage where he is saying he can not write anymore because his fingers are beginning to freeze. When they find him dead, not only do they find the letters but they discover that the freezer’s temperature never dropped below 50 degrees. Thus, the man pretty much psyched himself to death.Van Ekeren, 1988The expression “worried to death” has more truth to it than you might think.There is a story about Nick Sitzman, a strong, young bull-of-a-man, who worked on a train crew. It seemed Nick had everything: a strong healthy body, ambition, a wife and two children, and many friends.
However, Nick had one fault. He was a notorious worrier. He worried about everything and usually feared the worst.One midsummer day, the train crew were informed that they could quit an hour early in honor of the foreman’s birthday. Accidentally, Nick was locked in a refrigerator boxcar, and the rest of the workmen left the site. Nice panicked.He banged and shouted until his fists were bloody and his voice was hoarse.
No one heard him. “If I can’t get out, I’ll freeze to death in here,” he thought. Wanting to let his wife and family know exactly what had happened to him, Nick found a knife and began to etch words on the wooden floor.
He wrote, “It’s so cold, my body is getting numb. If I could just go to sleep. These may be my last words.”The next morning the crew slid open the heavy doors of the boxcar and found Nick dead. An autopsy revealed that every physical sign of his body indicated he had frozen to death. And yet the refrigeration unit of the car was inoperative, and the temperature inside indicated fifty-five degrees. Nick had killed himself by the power of worry.
Origins: Can someone really think himself to death? That is the point of this legend: the mind is a powerful thing; so powerful that it can kill. Boxcar he’s trapped in isn’t turned on, but the man stuck inside the car slowly succumbs to hypothermia nonetheless.Because this type of story involves a death caused by something contradictory to the physical evidence, a search of the deceased’s pockets or a quick glance at the floor or walls will inevitably turn up a note detailing the final hours of his life.
The note is a necessary plot element in this sort of tale, as the victim’s thoughts just prior to his death are key to the story, and those are details we couldn’t know without his conveniently having left a written record of what he’d been thinking.The theme of a physically unharmed victim who passes away only because he believes himself to be dying underpins another urban legend. In “Lethal Indirection,” a fellow who believes himself to have been dies of a heart attack.Could someone really think himself to death? The jury may still be out on that concept, but we’ve yet to find any documentation for the claim that someone once died because his power of thought turned him into a corpsicle.Barbara “cold comfort” MikkelsonLast updated: 26 June 2014Sources:Osteen, Joel. Your Best Life Now.New York: Warner Faith, 2004 (pp. 72-73).Waitley, Denis. Empires of the Mind.New York: William Morrow, 1995 (p. 126).Van Ekeren, Glenn.
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The Speaker’s Sourcebook.Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1988 (pp.
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