In light of the October announcement of Cold Fear, a new horror-tinged action title from Ubisoft and Parisian developer Darkworks, we recently got to go hands-on with the game for the first time. Our brief experience with a demo version revealed some adventure game-style puzzle-solving and a solid-feeling third-person-shooting model. That’s a lot of hyphens, but in simpler terms, the game is looking surprisingly good for one that Ubi hasn’t publicized much at all until now. Cold Fear is still several months off from release, but the early build we tried out gave a favorable first impression, and we’re interested to see how the final version shapes up before its first-quarter ‘05 release.
Tom Hansen will be up against unnatural enemies–and the elements–as he attempts to uncover the mystery of a derelict Russian whaler adrift on the Bering Sea.
Cold Fear places you in the role of Tom Hansen, a Coast Guard officer who encounters a derelict ship adrift on the Bering Sea. Upon boarding and exploring the ship, Hansen quickly discovers that things have gone decidedly south aboard the mysterious vessel. Everything is in shambles, with some parts of the ship destroyed and other parts on fire. More disturbingly, a large number of the ship’s occupants seem strangely thirsty for Hansen’s blood, and most of them don’t seem quite human. There are a number of still-human survivors on the ship–Russian mercenaries, it turns out–but they’ll be gunning for you too, in an attempt to cover up whatever madness has occurred on the doomed whaler.
The demo version of Cold Fear placed us near the beginning of the game, apparently not long after Hansen has boarded the ship. You’ve got two basic perspectives on the ongoing action. By default, you’ll see a third-person view with variable camera angles à la Resident Evil or other such adventure games. But we found the optional pseudo-first-person view to be much more useful, because it swings the camera down just over Hansen’s shoulder and provides you with a free-look ability and a laser sight (at least with the default pistol). Even better, you’ll switch on a handy flashlight while in this view, which comes in awfully handy in the dark confines of the ship’s lower decks. You can walk around freely in the shooting mode, which makes exploring the ship with the controllable perspective a must.
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