Cold Fear is a simple, action/horror game which seems alot like Resident Evil 4, but actually, is alot like old RE games
Tom Hanson is in the Coast Guard, sent to investagate a Russian whale ship that other people sent died on. Right, people are dying, just keep sending other people, makes sense. Oh and right in the middle of a huge storm, awesome idea. Anyway, everybody you are with dies, quickly. And you are left alone.
You walk around this ship, wondering what's going on, find a love intrest, and become a total wuss-ass cliche character. Seriouslly he knows her for like, 10 minutes and yeah. Anyway has you can see the whole story is pretty lame. All you need to know is you are on a ship, and later an oil rig filled with zombie like monsters, and Russian people that after you save, want to shoot you.
Oh and another thing about these Russian people. They will shoot you with AK-47's and SMG's but yet you can't pick them up and use them. No, of course not. You have to find one lying around on the ship. Makes perfect sense.
In the game you'll get a Handgun, AK-47, Sub machine gun, Shotgun, Speargun,and Flame Thrower. None of which really matters because the shotgun rules all and you'll be using that most of the time.
So here is how the game works. You have an objective, which is useally just 'go to this place'. You do that, save your game, and move on to the next objective. It seems to me that you're just traveling to the next save point, watching something happen, then going to the next place. And with no real boss battles to break up the same-ness.
At the end it's a pretty easy, and very short game. And it's basiclly over before you realized it's begun. IT's also not very scary at all. Or they don't do it good enough, in rooms where it looks like a monster or something is gonna pop out, it useally does. But it will switch to a cutscene, which is not very scary at all. It needs to happen in game, really would get you jumping.
Cold fear is what you get when you take Carrier and add RE4. And sure has you read my review you've basiclly seen nothing but bad stuff for Cold Fear. But in the end it was a decently fun game. And it never sold to well so you can pick it up pretty cheap now. So if you are looking for a new game for your Xbox or PS2, that is cheap, and not too scary. Try this one.