Didn't remember this one was from Ubisoft. It's crazy how there used to be creativity in their games and now evertything they do is open world checklists.
Just as a remaster for the (2002) The Thing Video game was announced I was thinking they should remaster Cold Fear. Then this video popped into my recommendations!
Cold Fear was definitely good enough to be seen as more than “Resident Evil at sea.” It had a lot of small touches that made it stick out. You could precision aim and shoot, while moving. Environmental hazards were a legit threat, which could also be used to your advantage. You could eliminate a load of enemy encounters by shooting the heads off any dead bodies you came across. Seriously, if you don’t, they will get up and come after you. Combat was highly satisfying, especially when you could get the environment to do some of the work. The enemy designs were sufficiently off putting. The research vessel and oil drilling platform made for unique settings that oozed atmosphere. Cold Fear was a solid line drive of a game, if a little on the short side.
I remember hearing about this when I first got in. I looked up some gameplay and realized the only thing Coast Guard about it was that the main character is supposedly in it.
You're so right about the over reliance on realism. Honestly though, I blame game marketing. Graphics are the easiest thing to sell to people who aren't already playing games, which was very important back before a "core audience" of gamers actually existed, so they got prioritized and now we can't go back. Because if your game doesn't LOOK visually impressive (for the time) then no one will give it a chance to actually see if the gameplay is any good. It fucking sucks and I blame it for so many of the problems in the industry today.
I do as well and I honestly think we're on a path to where this reliance on photorealism is going to bite the industry in the ass. It already kind of is tbh.
@@snesbagel It absolutely is. It's a big part of the reason games are getting so much more expensive and time consuming to make. Which has of course led to a lot of the AAA sphere's issues regarding how it treats it's developers. It's frustrating, because so much of the power used on graphical fidelity could be used instead to handle game concepts that couldn't have been dreamed of decades ago. I think about some of the stuff games like Half-Life and Metal Gear tried (and often succeeded!) at accomplishing with it's limited resources, and how much more feasible those things could be with modern processing power behind them. Instead, we gotta use it to make games that will look outdated in 5 or so years. Instead, realism tends to have the opposite effect, restricting what's possible and removing player control in order to stretch a game's graphical capabilities to it's max.
look at dead space remake, the animations and gun handling is worse then original, and designs, and sound but people say it's better then original cause it has the modern paint coat. It's a clearly a playable movie then an actual game and the dev team has the balls to say they wanna remake dead space 2 lol, the game with arguably the highest quality game play, lighting, gore and textures and you guys couldn't even do better then ds1
@@MGrey-qb5xz Ok I have to disagree with you here. Dead Space remake is honestly a great example of what you can do with more "realistic" graphics in games with stuff like the peeling system; graphics that actually have implications on gameplay. If you want to actually see an example of something dead space like being ruined by realism, look at The Callisto Protocol.
Cold fear was a great game, I remember playing this back in the early 2000’s and I was in love, couldn’t find it again for the longest time, thanks for the nostalgia
Ah yes, I remember also "The Thing" as another example of mid-2000s games with incongruous songs totally unrelated to the game used in the end credits like it was a movie all of a sudden.
So we keep driving, into the night.. The fact that that game has the main menu theme of all main menu themes, of which I don't think has been matched quite on that level lol.. and that's the song that they dropped the credits with lol.
Just found the channel from the last video, love channels that cover games like shooters and such. Always been a retro/niche game gamer. Keep up the interesting content and the fun comments so I can keep my spork moving through my spaghetti.
This game looks like a gooooood time! So was you’re working on a game in any capacity. And Mother Hub looks like one I’ll be checking out, for certain. Congrats on the viewership 🎉! Keep ‘em coming!
Cold Fear is part of my "Resident Evil in the boat" collection: RE Dead Aim, Cold Fear and RE Revelations. I just wanted to put this here. It's a cool game, short but solid. Recommend to any survivor horror/action horror/seaside horror fans out there! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
That's funny, I've always called it one of the resident evil games, it's the one on the boat, lol.. for some reason, all the people that are speaking the praises of Revelation seem to just not actually understand what I'm talking about.. But then, these are the same people that think RE4 came up with the over the shoulder camera, and also invented you know the concept of third person action, and fed the hungry and, I don't know save the whales or something.. which turns out was bad idea!
Saw this video of yours show up on my recommendations, and I'm glad it did! It's nice to see some gaming channels out there pay this game the respect it deserves. Sounds like we have a similar history with Cold Fear. I remember seeing a review for it in a spring issue of Game Informer back in 2005. Needless to say, the critics panned it and gave it very low scores. Keep in mind, this was immediately following the release of Resident Evil 4, which obviously blew Cold Fear out of the water (no pun intended). Another interesting fact I remember about that particular issue of Game Informer is that it also featured a review for Haunting Ground, which (if my memory serves me correctly) was also panned by critics and given an awfully low score (kinda ironic, considering Haunting Ground has become a beloved cult classic and highly sought-after PS2 game for survival horror fans). Just like you, I also really got into survival horror at that same time. Once I first played the Silent Hill games in 2004 and started playing the Resident Evil games in 2005, I was chomping at the bit to get my 14-year-old hands on more horror games, and both Cold Fear and Haunting Ground were high on me list, I didn't care what stupid Game Informer reviewers had to say about them, haha. Very glad to still have games like these sitting in my PS2 collection.
The amount of reviews from over the years that have aged like milk is hilarious to me. Jim Sterling giving Vanquish a 5/10 will never not be hilarious to me considering the chronic praise that game gets nowadays and Alien: Isolation is held up as one of the best horror games of the 2010s (which I agree with) but got average-mediocre reviews across the board when it came out lol.
Hey Zombiehobo, while I normally groan at all the extra chat around a game breakdown on these videos, I actually loved your chatter and agree with/was interested in so much of what you had to say with this game and the others you mentioned haha :P. It is so sad gaming as the norm has moved so far away from new and fun ideas to repetitive grindy addictive trash. Loved this game when I played it back in the day and was so surprised almost no one played it :). Thanks for your work!
Glad you enjoyed it fam. I agree with a lot of games focusing to hard on the grind. I feel like everyone wants to treat video games like a second job these days lol.
i think this game is absolutely amazing, not perfect but the atmosphere and vibe it gives, it’s like Resident evil 4 gameplay mixed with some fix camera angles here and there… i love it
Cold Fear is one of the best games we had in that era. Sure, nowadays it shows its problems with animations and controls, but back then, I had so much fun with it. I remember almost all of it and for some reason I was excited about the part on the ship's deck which had a destroyed railing and waves would crash on the walls and could even make you fall in the sea and die. I love this game, I still have it somewhere.
Dino Crisis 3 went to Space because it was going to be in A Resident Evil 3 style city but Dino's but when they announced it and haven't started working on it yet, well 9/11 happened and they had to go into an Entirly different direction to not offend anyone. 🤓
Thank God i still own this game on ps2. I couldnt play longer than 30 minutes at a time because i was terrified. A remaster would be amazing! PS- Neat way to stumble onto your channel.
I remember seeing this game at a flea market back in 2014. I remember picking up the box, thinking it looks like Resident evil revelations, putting it back and proceeding to buy my 3rd copy of rayman 2.
"AND IT WAS COLD IN THAT GROCERY STORE FREEZER AND THE CUSTOMERS HAD FEAR AND THAT IS WHERE I GOT THE IDEA FOR THE VIDEO GAME CALLED FEAR." - Gunther Galipot
I still have a copy of this game for PS2. Interesting thing about it, since there was no in-game map, in the game manual there was a map of the ship. So to navigate I was looking for landmarks in game to figure out where I am, while looking on the map in real life. Quite immersive experience.
Really enjoyed the video, came in knowing nothing about Cold Zero whatsoever despite being a fan of plenty Ubisoft titles and survival horror as a genre, might have to grab a copy of this on steam! Looks pretty decent and like it has a cool feeling/atmosphere... Subbed 🙏
I would definitely recommend giving it a shot, but you are probably going to have to download a fan patch if you want to play at a high resolution. Also, thnx for the sub!
Jules Vern Steampunk survival horror sounds awesome, more wasted potential, hallmark of the vg industry. Always thought this was a mix of elements of re 2 and re4.
This game scared the shit out of me as a kid. And now at 25 years old, I get nervous about going back to play it because it straight up traumatized me.
i loved this game as a kid! Also I am living in the same part where the game is taking place - Sakhalin Island, in the game - second part of it takes place on SAKHALIN START OIL RIG :D that was very funny to me!
This game would have stayed a dormant memory had this video's thumbnail not caught my eye. I got this game not long after release. I don't remember much, other than that I enjoyed it.
Now i remember why i haven't finished it and always dropped game after an hour, it made my sick from that shaking of that ship against waves they really did a great job on that so great that i'm sick just by watching it again.
There I was, driving home down route 1 on a Friday payday. Stopping at the Best Buy in Laurel MD and this Cold Fear game was in the new releases. I can barely remember it. I do remember it was on a ship
I just stumbled onto this video in my recommendations and I also didn’t know this game’s existence until today so I went on Wikipedia to find out a little more about this game and I found that reportedly back in 2006 there was originally supposed to be a movie adaptation that some film studio co-purchased the rights for a film adaptation but it was probably cancelled because there’s been no developments on it so I thought I might share it here.
Yeah, back at that period pretty much every game was getting some kind of movie deal or spec script/treatment written for it but pretty much all of them ended up in development hell and the ones that came out were garbage.
Bought this about 2 decades ago at a bargain bin in Game Stop, when they used to sell pc games. Enjoyed it immensely and played it a few more times as i thought the setting was pretty original, killing zombies while slipping and sliding on the deck was something else, lol. Still got the disc, a bit scratched up but in my closet somewhere. Think i'll look for it for old times sake....
1:05 Yeah, the algorithm is weird like that. The more successful a video does, the more likely others are to be shown to people. That's how I stumbled across this one. Good stuff so far. Subscribed, hit the bell, and am making this comment to appease the algorithm Gods so that they may bless this channel. Haha
Ubisoft, like Activision, EA, THQ, used to hire lot of external studios (just like a film distributor) during PS1, PS2 and early PS3 era. Because it was easier to develop and take risk/be creative to do something new. Now the budgets are blown out of proportion, you very rarely see innovative, creative stuff coming from AAA spaces.
Well investors are starting to pull out of the industry entirely which means all the money to make these giant fuckfests is drying up so who knows what'll happen to the industry now lol.
This is easily one of my all time favourite games! It’s a very flawed game that could really do with a remake but there’s just so much to love about this game. Music is easily one of its best aspects.
I was impressed with the wind blowing flamethrower bursts back into your face and damaging you if you were dumb enough to fire into it, because I had never played a game that did that up to that point
@@snesbagel I think it was mentioned either when you first picked up the flamethrower, or as a hint not to fire into the wind. I can't remember which, I haven't played it in a hot minute. That engine was something else!
I'm surprised you didn't mention The Thing, now that was one of the best survival games of the era. It's so good night dive Studios is remastering it. I was hoping for a remake.
It's a shame this game went nowhere. Cold Fear sounds like it would've been Ubisoft's Resident Evil in the sense that the creatures are spawned from a bio-contamination + the presence of shady organizations wanting the weapons that created them.
Lol, for some reason I remember something like a manual save system.. like a manual checkpoint system maybe? Like it wasn't quick savey or anything... But I also remember not having the kind of problems of only a single save file nonsense.. and I would have had those problems lol. It's funny though nowadays, if you don't have auto saves, kids these days don't even comprehend the idea of manual saving.. I mean shit even the PCs, they've taken away most of the keyboard lol.. somehow we've managed to go so far backwards in the peripheral department that even the keyboard has lost the ease of mechanical quick-saving lol.. But of course the important thing is that it makes a lot with noise when you hit a key, and vomits rainbow Skittles at you at all times in random iteratives.
Oh yes, this game brings back the memories. I know they just came out with “Still Wakes The Deep,” but I still think this game should be re-made. Definitely should be made _better_ but re-made nonetheless.
I'm glad I've had the opportunity to play this game as a teenager. Back then it seemed pretty good, had some interesting mechanics, but still not better than RE.
12:48 This is a very true point! I recently got Incursion Red River and while the game is pretty and whatnot, the experience suffers because the framerate isn't stable. It feels like modern games try to be really pretty, however utterly throw most people not on top notch systems under the bus, due to going about it by using expensive rendering techniques and stuff.
@@snesbagel I love RE5 but 6 took everything that I enjoyed in that game and turned it up to 11. After more than a decade of build-up it's like the most coked-out, balls-to-the-wall, no-fucks-given action movie coda to the series imaginable and I love every minute of its glorious insanity.
@@CanadianPale I didn't really mind the action parts of it so much as I just didn't mesh with the game's shooting mechanics. I liked Leon's and Ada's campaigns, thought Chris' was okay, and kind of hated Jake's lol.
I remember really enjoying this game until I hit a dead end. Some door wouldn't open for me and I couldn't progress through the game any more. It was a shame as it's a good game.
I had this game, it was pretty solid from what I remember but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. What was more funny is I had a classmate with the exact same name as the MC and he couldn’t of been more the polar opposite 😂
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8:31 it's pronounced "cawk-leer".. a simple google search would've told you that.
I didn't really think it mattered a huge amount.
@@snesbagel does if ya names Michael apparently
@@snesbagel it doesn't, just pointing it out. Nice video either way, man. Keep up the good content
@@michaelmyers4943 Thnx fam.
@@snesbagelhey if people are noticing it means they are listening to the whole video lol. Good video man
Didn't remember this one was from Ubisoft. It's crazy how there used to be creativity in their games and now evertything they do is open world checklists.
Crazy and depressing.
Back in the 2000s it was Ubisoft. Now, they are Ubislop.
Haven't bought anything from Ubislop since they rereleased Blood Dragon.
@@Gruntvc You haven't missed a whole lot.
developed by Darkworks
it wasnt from Ubisoft, it was done by Darkworks.
Just as a remaster for the (2002) The Thing Video game was announced I was thinking they should remaster Cold Fear. Then this video popped into my recommendations!
Bro, I about freaked out when I saw the trailer for that remaster.
"Cold Fear" is a nice game, but to be honest, the part on the ship is good, but the part on the oil rig is way less good.
Still good though.
Wait. They're remastering The Thing game????
@@LawgSkrak The video game that came out in 2002,
@@LawgSkrak Yep, Nigthdive Studios.
Cold Fear was definitely good enough to be seen as more than “Resident Evil at sea.” It had a lot of small touches that made it stick out. You could precision aim and shoot, while moving. Environmental hazards were a legit threat, which could also be used to your advantage. You could eliminate a load of enemy encounters by shooting the heads off any dead bodies you came across. Seriously, if you don’t, they will get up and come after you. Combat was highly satisfying, especially when you could get the environment to do some of the work. The enemy designs were sufficiently off putting. The research vessel and oil drilling platform made for unique settings that oozed atmosphere. Cold Fear was a solid line drive of a game, if a little on the short side.
it seems like a heavy physics version of classic re games
And then we got a resident evil at sea 3 of them!
@@californiacombativesclub202 more like just a level that is as static as if they were anywhere else
You mean reSEAdent evil??
@@DetroitAlan01 Resident Evil Revelation 1: am I a joke to you ?
I was in the Coast Guard when this came out and our copy was passed around the boat a lot. I wish they would reboot this game someday.
When I was on the Maui we played this and watched so many bootleg movies/TV series 😂
I remember hearing about this when I first got in. I looked up some gameplay and realized the only thing Coast Guard about it was that the main character is supposedly in it.
What a convenient time to find this channel
Facts
You're so right about the over reliance on realism. Honestly though, I blame game marketing. Graphics are the easiest thing to sell to people who aren't already playing games, which was very important back before a "core audience" of gamers actually existed, so they got prioritized and now we can't go back.
Because if your game doesn't LOOK visually impressive (for the time) then no one will give it a chance to actually see if the gameplay is any good. It fucking sucks and I blame it for so many of the problems in the industry today.
I do as well and I honestly think we're on a path to where this reliance on photorealism is going to bite the industry in the ass. It already kind of is tbh.
@@snesbagel It absolutely is. It's a big part of the reason games are getting so much more expensive and time consuming to make. Which has of course led to a lot of the AAA sphere's issues regarding how it treats it's developers.
It's frustrating, because so much of the power used on graphical fidelity could be used instead to handle game concepts that couldn't have been dreamed of decades ago. I think about some of the stuff games like Half-Life and Metal Gear tried (and often succeeded!) at accomplishing with it's limited resources, and how much more feasible those things could be with modern processing power behind them. Instead, we gotta use it to make games that will look outdated in 5 or so years.
Instead, realism tends to have the opposite effect, restricting what's possible and removing player control in order to stretch a game's graphical capabilities to it's max.
@@queengames8421 I don't have anything to add to this other than that I agree completely.
look at dead space remake, the animations and gun handling is worse then original, and designs, and sound but people say it's better then original cause it has the modern paint coat. It's a clearly a playable movie then an actual game and the dev team has the balls to say they wanna remake dead space 2 lol, the game with arguably the highest quality game play, lighting, gore and textures and you guys couldn't even do better then ds1
@@MGrey-qb5xz Ok I have to disagree with you here. Dead Space remake is honestly a great example of what you can do with more "realistic" graphics in games with stuff like the peeling system; graphics that actually have implications on gameplay.
If you want to actually see an example of something dead space like being ruined by realism, look at The Callisto Protocol.
Re4,the thing and cold fear i miss my old ps2
just watched the citedale video, and as a nice surprise, you just uploaded another video about one of my favorite genres!
Damn dude, congrats on shooting past 2k subs. Definitely deserved!
Thnx fam, I'm pretty happy about it.
It's been a pleasure having your help Zombie.
Glad I could be of service!
Cold fear was a great game, I remember playing this back in the early 2000’s and I was in love, couldn’t find it again for the longest time, thanks for the nostalgia
Ah yes, I remember also "The Thing" as another example of mid-2000s games with incongruous songs totally unrelated to the game used in the end credits like it was a movie all of a sudden.
That is the best label I have ever heard for that phenomenon.
So we keep driving, into the night..
The fact that that game has the main menu theme of all main menu themes, of which I don't think has been matched quite on that level lol.. and that's the song that they dropped the credits with lol.
Just found the channel from the last video, love channels that cover games like shooters and such. Always been a retro/niche game gamer. Keep up the interesting content and the fun comments so I can keep my spork moving through my spaghetti.
Glad you like the vids so far homie.
Man, great video! Glad I found your channel. :D Spot-on about games being stylized over having “ultra-realistic” graphics being a huge plus.
Love you're reviews, great vibe, like I can tell you just love talking about games.
It's something I can do for a long time, lol.
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nice one man, hope the boom from the citadel video carries through 👍
Me too lol.
really well made video, I had no idea this game existed and a huge part of me wishes i grew up with it haha. well done bro!
Ubisoft made another survival horror game called zombi / zombiu. One of the best zombie game.
Man, I played the demo of Cold Fear as a kid so much, thanks for reminding me this game exists
I played this back on ps2! Memories of this game came back to me weeks again and it bugged me for days not remembering the name!
my step dad always said that was resident evil 5, and i had to always correct him it wasnt back on the ps2.
Damn brother you're popping off right now. So proud. Before you know it you'll be at 10k, then 100k
That'd be neat.
Just found this channel but absolutely love it!
This game looks really good, very atmospheric. I wonder why I never heard about it back in the day. Would have been right up my alley.
It got mixed reviews and Ubisoft was probably never too enthusiastic about it.
This game looks like a gooooood time! So was you’re working on a game in any capacity. And Mother Hub looks like one I’ll be checking out, for certain. Congrats on the viewership 🎉! Keep ‘em coming!
Cold Fear is part of my "Resident Evil in the boat" collection: RE Dead Aim, Cold Fear and RE Revelations. I just wanted to put this here.
It's a cool game, short but solid. Recommend to any survivor horror/action horror/seaside horror fans out there! ⭐⭐⭐⭐
That's funny, I've always called it one of the resident evil games, it's the one on the boat, lol.. for some reason, all the people that are speaking the praises of Revelation seem to just not actually understand what I'm talking about..
But then, these are the same people that think RE4 came up with the over the shoulder camera, and also invented you know the concept of third person action, and fed the hungry and, I don't know save the whales or something.. which turns out was bad idea!
Saw this video of yours show up on my recommendations, and I'm glad it did! It's nice to see some gaming channels out there pay this game the respect it deserves. Sounds like we have a similar history with Cold Fear. I remember seeing a review for it in a spring issue of Game Informer back in 2005. Needless to say, the critics panned it and gave it very low scores. Keep in mind, this was immediately following the release of Resident Evil 4, which obviously blew Cold Fear out of the water (no pun intended). Another interesting fact I remember about that particular issue of Game Informer is that it also featured a review for Haunting Ground, which (if my memory serves me correctly) was also panned by critics and given an awfully low score (kinda ironic, considering Haunting Ground has become a beloved cult classic and highly sought-after PS2 game for survival horror fans).
Just like you, I also really got into survival horror at that same time. Once I first played the Silent Hill games in 2004 and started playing the Resident Evil games in 2005, I was chomping at the bit to get my 14-year-old hands on more horror games, and both Cold Fear and Haunting Ground were high on me list, I didn't care what stupid Game Informer reviewers had to say about them, haha. Very glad to still have games like these sitting in my PS2 collection.
The amount of reviews from over the years that have aged like milk is hilarious to me. Jim Sterling giving Vanquish a 5/10 will never not be hilarious to me considering the chronic praise that game gets nowadays and Alien: Isolation is held up as one of the best horror games of the 2010s (which I agree with) but got average-mediocre reviews across the board when it came out lol.
Hey Zombiehobo, while I normally groan at all the extra chat around a game breakdown on these videos, I actually loved your chatter and agree with/was interested in so much of what you had to say with this game and the others you mentioned haha :P. It is so sad gaming as the norm has moved so far away from new and fun ideas to repetitive grindy addictive trash. Loved this game when I played it back in the day and was so surprised almost no one played it :). Thanks for your work!
Glad you enjoyed it fam. I agree with a lot of games focusing to hard on the grind. I feel like everyone wants to treat video games like a second job these days lol.
i think this game is absolutely amazing, not perfect but the atmosphere and vibe it gives, it’s like Resident evil 4 gameplay mixed with some fix camera angles here and there… i love it
Cool vid. I'm not big into survival horror, but I shared this with a friend who is, and as it turns out, he's played this game.
Yeh, it's semi-popular among people who are really big into the genre. Thnx for sharing it!
Damn unlocked a core memory with this one
And here I was thinking Assassin's Creed Unity was Ubisoft's attempt at horror.
Remember beating this around 2011. I miss those days when it was style and art direction over realism.
Cold Fear is one of the best games we had in that era. Sure, nowadays it shows its problems with animations and controls, but back then, I had so much fun with it. I remember almost all of it and for some reason I was excited about the part on the ship's deck which had a destroyed railing and waves would crash on the walls and could even make you fall in the sea and die.
I love this game, I still have it somewhere.
the WTF Boom meme was how i found this game lol
Vintage meme right there.
I'm a very important and wet man, how do you like it?
WHY MUST YOU DOUBT GUNTHER ?
I honestly loved this game back in the day and I was young enough to find the early jumpscares actually scary. Good memories
I would love to get a sequel or remake for Cold Fear!
how does ur channel not have more subs, great content
Still new and not very good at titles and thumbnails.
I used to play this game on my Xbox years ago
The development art was extremely good
Dino Crisis 3 went to Space because it was going to be in A Resident Evil 3 style city but Dino's but when they announced it and haven't started working on it yet, well 9/11 happened and they had to go into an Entirly different direction to not offend anyone. 🤓
Ah I see, I didn't know that.
Thank God i still own this game on ps2. I couldnt play longer than 30 minutes at a time because i was terrified. A remaster would be amazing!
PS- Neat way to stumble onto your channel.
If the thing is getting a remaster i believe cold fear also deserve a remake👍🎮🎮
Agreed
I remember playing this and 'The Thing 2002' round the same time way back in the day.
The Thing is one I plan to do a video on when the remaster comes out.
I remember seeing this game at a flea market back in 2014. I remember picking up the box, thinking it looks like Resident evil revelations, putting it back and proceeding to buy my 3rd copy of rayman 2.
The graphics blew me away when I first played it. Can't believe this game ran on PS2
Yeah, it looks exceptionally good for the console.
You just unlocked a childhood memory
The ship movement was a great addition to this game.
"AND IT WAS COLD IN THAT GROCERY STORE FREEZER AND THE CUSTOMERS HAD FEAR AND THAT IS WHERE I GOT THE IDEA FOR THE VIDEO GAME CALLED FEAR."
- Gunther Galipot
13:08 I wish more people would have this mentality, then we wouldn't have all these games where the artstyle is "realism"
3 am means 3 more video essays on niche survival horror games
Soulful comment.
Ubisoft and EA this two logo whenever I used to see as kid
I knew it would be a banger game
Same. Used to be a mark of quality.
I loved this game as a kid. Aurora watching, cold fear, cold war(stealth game) are the not so popular games i loved.
I still have a copy of this game for PS2. Interesting thing about it, since there was no in-game map, in the game manual there was a map of the ship. So to navigate I was looking for landmarks in game to figure out where I am, while looking on the map in real life. Quite immersive experience.
I forgot game manuals even used to exist lol.
Really enjoyed the video, came in knowing nothing about Cold Zero whatsoever despite being a fan of plenty Ubisoft titles and survival horror as a genre, might have to grab a copy of this on steam! Looks pretty decent and like it has a cool feeling/atmosphere...
Subbed 🙏
I would definitely recommend giving it a shot, but you are probably going to have to download a fan patch if you want to play at a high resolution. Also, thnx for the sub!
I actually had this game as a kid
Jules Vern Steampunk survival horror sounds awesome, more wasted potential, hallmark of the vg industry. Always thought this was a mix of elements of re 2 and re4.
This game scared the shit out of me as a kid. And now at 25 years old, I get nervous about going back to play it because it straight up traumatized me.
Enjoyed the vibe of your video. Hope you start getting more views soon.
God this was a blast to the past! I remember this being the “RE on a Boat” game.
i loved this game as a kid! Also I am living in the same part where the game is taking place - Sakhalin Island, in the game - second part of it takes place on SAKHALIN START OIL RIG :D that was very funny to me!
Always cool when I game gives a shoutout to a place where you either live or have lived.
@@snesbagel especially like mine - island on the far east of Russia :D
This game would have stayed a dormant memory had this video's thumbnail not caught my eye.
I got this game not long after release. I don't remember much, other than that I enjoyed it.
Now i remember why i haven't finished it and always dropped game after an hour, it made my sick from that shaking of that ship against waves they really did a great job on that so great that i'm sick just by watching it again.
There I was, driving home down route 1 on a Friday payday. Stopping at the Best Buy in Laurel MD and this Cold Fear game was in the new releases. I can barely remember it. I do remember it was on a ship
I just stumbled onto this video in my recommendations and I also didn’t know this game’s existence until today so I went on Wikipedia to find out a little more about this game and I found that reportedly back in 2006 there was originally supposed to be a movie adaptation that some film studio co-purchased the rights for a film adaptation but it was probably cancelled because there’s been no developments on it so I thought I might share it here.
Yeah, back at that period pretty much every game was getting some kind of movie deal or spec script/treatment written for it but pretty much all of them ended up in development hell and the ones that came out were garbage.
Bought this about 2 decades ago at a bargain bin in Game Stop, when they used to sell pc games. Enjoyed it immensely and played it a few more times as i thought the setting was pretty original, killing zombies while slipping and sliding on the deck was something else, lol. Still got the disc, a bit scratched up but in my closet somewhere. Think i'll look for it for old times sake....
"By the power of Cold Fear's awesomeness, I, Gunther Galipot, wipe this planet out of existence!!!"
-The original WTF Boom
1:05 Yeah, the algorithm is weird like that. The more successful a video does, the more likely others are to be shown to people. That's how I stumbled across this one. Good stuff so far. Subscribed, hit the bell, and am making this comment to appease the algorithm Gods so that they may bless this channel. Haha
Thnx man, I really appreciate it!
I find this genre super interesting, I played Signalis and thought it was great
I still need to get Signalis, it looks amazing.
Ubisoft, like Activision, EA, THQ, used to hire lot of external studios (just like a film distributor) during PS1, PS2 and early PS3 era.
Because it was easier to develop and take risk/be creative to do something new.
Now the budgets are blown out of proportion, you very rarely see innovative, creative stuff coming from AAA spaces.
Well investors are starting to pull out of the industry entirely which means all the money to make these giant fuckfests is drying up so who knows what'll happen to the industry now lol.
Cold Fear is great. It’s still available on PC.
Yep, that's where I played it! Lol.
This is easily one of my all time favourite games! It’s a very flawed game that could really do with a remake but there’s just so much to love about this game. Music is easily one of its best aspects.
Yeah, I didn't mention it in the video but the soundtrack is pretty baller.
god damn, so happy to see you pop off!!!!!!
Thnx fam, it's been pretty awesome.
I was impressed with the wind blowing flamethrower bursts back into your face and damaging you if you were dumb enough to fire into it, because I had never played a game that did that up to that point
I didn't even know that could happen. That's really impressive.
@@snesbagel I think it was mentioned either when you first picked up the flamethrower, or as a hint not to fire into the wind. I can't remember which, I haven't played it in a hot minute. That engine was something else!
@@radicalthestral8210 For real. Sucks it never got used for anything else.
this channel freakin rocks!
absolute quality content
"this mandate no longer exists" lmfao! that was the moment where I subscribed lol!
I'm surprised you didn't mention The Thing, now that was one of the best survival games of the era. It's so good night dive Studios is remastering it. I was hoping for a remake.
i literally watch your vids for game recommendations thanks , i had never heard of this ....time to play
Glad you like the vids and I hope you enjoy the game!
It was an amazing horror game, the ship listing physics were amazing.
It's a shame this game went nowhere. Cold Fear sounds like it would've been Ubisoft's Resident Evil in the sense that the creatures are spawned from a bio-contamination + the presence of shady organizations wanting the weapons that created them.
Thanks for reminding me about this game! Totally going to emulate this on the Steam Deck
Great video, glad I found this channel, liked and subscribed
Not enough games are set on boats / at sea. It has a unique vibe imo
As someone who suffers from severe sea sickness, this game looks like mynown personal hell.
One thing that sucks about this game is the fact that there are no manual saves.
Checkpoints only, that's a bummer in 2024.....
Lol, for some reason I remember something like a manual save system.. like a manual checkpoint system maybe? Like it wasn't quick savey or anything... But I also remember not having the kind of problems of only a single save file nonsense.. and I would have had those problems lol.
It's funny though nowadays, if you don't have auto saves, kids these days don't even comprehend the idea of manual saving.. I mean shit even the PCs, they've taken away most of the keyboard lol.. somehow we've managed to go so far backwards in the peripheral department that even the keyboard has lost the ease of mechanical quick-saving lol..
But of course the important thing is that it makes a lot with noise when you hit a key, and vomits rainbow Skittles at you at all times in random iteratives.
My friend had this game for the Xbox we played this for hours staying up late good times.
Wait I totally remember this! This unlocked a forgotten memory!
Wow this one went under my radar, its funny how resident evil revelations came out 7 years later after this with a similar aquatic theme.
Look at that! The waist high water guy has to go in and save the Navy Seals. Figures
We need a Cold Fear Remaster, maybe a Remake even though I’m all for Originality and a proper follow up.
Great video! Your voice is very pleasant to listen to.
Thanks fam, glad you enjoyed it!
Oh yes, this game brings back the memories. I know they just came out with “Still Wakes The Deep,” but I still think this game should be re-made. Definitely should be made _better_ but re-made nonetheless.
I'm glad I've had the opportunity to play this game as a teenager. Back then it seemed pretty good, had some interesting mechanics, but still not better than RE.
Cold Fear was actually a really good game!.
It was peak Ubisoft back then..
12:48 This is a very true point! I recently got Incursion Red River and while the game is pretty and whatnot, the experience suffers because the framerate isn't stable. It feels like modern games try to be really pretty, however utterly throw most people not on top notch systems under the bus, due to going about it by using expensive rendering techniques and stuff.
Yeah, it's a trend that's been getting on my nerves for awhile now.
_Resident Evil 6_ was the logical culmination of everything that had come before it in the series. And it was _glorious..._
I prefer RE5 but that's just me.
@@snesbagel I love RE5 but 6 took everything that I enjoyed in that game and turned it up to 11. After more than a decade of build-up it's like the most coked-out, balls-to-the-wall, no-fucks-given action movie coda to the series imaginable and I love every minute of its glorious insanity.
@@CanadianPale I didn't really mind the action parts of it so much as I just didn't mesh with the game's shooting mechanics. I liked Leon's and Ada's campaigns, thought Chris' was okay, and kind of hated Jake's lol.
I remember really enjoying this game until I hit a dead end. Some door wouldn't open for me and I couldn't progress through the game any more. It was a shame as it's a good game.
I love to see this again honestly
I had this game, it was pretty solid from what I remember but it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. What was more funny is I had a classmate with the exact same name as the MC and he couldn’t of been more the polar opposite 😂