I coulda been a contender ma!

User Rating: 4.8 | Cold Fear PS2
Wow. Just wow. Cold Fear could have been something absolutely mind blowing. In the end it ends up falling short and clawed it's way up to mediocrity. Where to start. The controls are cumbersome, but not to the point where they are a large detriment to playing. The sound effects are your typical horror movie-esque sounds. The game starts off very quickly where things go poorly for a Coast Guard crew sent to investigate an apparently abandoned Russian ship.

Once the action starts, the problems do as well. The camera is absolutely horrendous. I mean on levels that I have never seen before or have seen since. It is easily the most cumbersome interface I have come across. The story is engaging enough to keep you interested.

The sad thing is that this game truely could have been spectacular in every sense of the word. But the effort just wasn't there. The game seemed very rushed and ended up just being a run of the mill average horror genre entry.

It's a shame too, it could have given Resident Evil 4 a run for it's money.