A primitive classic game,but spent to much to make it, it has amazing animations and visuals but very predictable at all

User Rating: 8 | Cold Fear PS2
By Dan0981 | Review Date:
In Cold Fear the player takes on the role of Tom Hansen, a former soldier now in the employ of the United States Coast Guard who has been sent in to investigate a mysterious Russian whaler Eastern Spirit in the middle of the Bering strait. The beginning cut-scenes show a SEAL team under the orders of a CIA agent, identifying the ship and trying to discover its cargo. Unfortunately, the SEAL squad is slaughtered mercilessly 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 "exocels", 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 to Hansen from inside and outside 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.

Throughout the series of logs found throughout the game, the reason for the cargo of Exocells was revealed. Dmitri Yusupov, a member of the Russian Mafia was originally using the Star of Sakhalin as an oil drilling platform as well as a base of operations for smuggling after purchasing it for a low price. When the drilling revealed the exocells, he then had Doctor Kamsky work with him to produce Biological Weapons using the exocells. The exocells proved to be a profitable pursuit as the prototypes alone was worth 150,000 USD while Pavel Bakharev developed countermeasures to ensure the exocells do not gain the upperhand. As time went on the patience of the Cartel grew thin. Yusupov relied by strongarming Viktor to work for him. This drove Viktor insane and unleashed the exocells on the plattform as well as 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.

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