Cold Winter

released on May 11, 2005

In "Cold Winter", you play the role of Andrew Sterling, a former member of MI6, the British secret intelligence service. Andrew is caught preparing to assassinate someone in China, and is thrown into prison. There he faces torture and imminent execution. But a former friend from his MI6 days arranges to rescue him and offers him a job, having planned in advance to manipulate him so that he is unable to refuse. The first task seems fairly ordinary: to track down a weapons dealer who has been supplying terrorists.


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This starts off quite promising, with the game introducing not only gunplay but also light stealth, crafting and puzzles. Unfortunately most of it is quickly thrown away, as the game leans too heavily on its satisfying-but ultimately-nothing-special FPS combat. It's too easy on Normal, there's practically no enemy variety, and the level design is so-so. The story is not worth paying attention to. If you're really itching for a slower paced shooter, I recommend you get this for real cheap and play it for a bit, just to go guns blazing. There's some solid gore and dismemberment effects here which adds a lot to the impact of the guns. Unfortunately the shotguns feel like shit. The automatic weapons or the sniper rifle are the way to go here.

Full video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is-oatnDUvo

Cold Winter has an awesome story, paired with impressive physics and a badass dismemberment system. Unfortunately, it's PlayStation 2 exclusivity holds it back from greatness. Fingers crossed we get a remaster at some point!

Game controls are too annoying to use