First Person Shooter games are not really my cup of tea (third
person view is more exciting), but Cold Winter was one game
that I really enjoyed. The story really gets you into the game and
makes you want to play for hours straight. Although the idea
behind Cold Winter is nothing we haven’t seen before, but
the dramatic cut scenes and the cinematic feel of the game makes
it interesting nonetheless.
In
Cold Winter, you play as Andrew Sterling, a former British
Secret Agent who was captured in China for spying and is being held at
a prison where he is beaten and left to rot. The game starts off with
Kim, another British Secret Agent rescuing you and providing you with
a gun. She is sent by Danny Parish, also a former agent and friend of
Andrew’s. He has his own private security firm and wants you to work
for him. You have to escape the prison and meet up with Kim, who
provides you with a new life.
Parish sends you on missions involving the usual, killing a bunch of
bad guys, mostly anonymous henchmen and guards. You have to complete
tasks to continue the mission and sometimes the tasks seem unnecessary
and a waste of time. In the beginning of the game, the enemy is pretty
easy to kill, but as you move to higher levels; it gets harder to kill
them. Sometimes I had to use a whole mag on one guard. And using
Molotov cocktails and grenades are not really that effective as you
would think and like them to be.
I
don’t want to spoil the story of the game, but the premise is that the
whole world is in danger of annihilation, and it involves many, many
nuclear bombs, and a crazy madman behind it all. And of course, you
have to stop it all single handedly.
GRAPHICS
The gameplay graphics are outstanding, as you can really tell the
difference between Chinese guards, Arabic guards, and the other
ones if there are any. And the details in the faces when you get
close are amazing, and also the details of your surroundings. But
the best graphics are of course the story lines and cut scenes,
where things look very real. Very life like.
AUDIO
The audio is also very good. Explosions, guards yelling, shouting,
the voiceovers, and gun shots all sound very real to me and are
all clearly distinctive. The game really must have focused in
bullet hits, as hits on rocks, metal, bodies, and so forth sound
so real they are scary. They sound a lot like in the movies. One
annoying thing about the sound/audio is the walking. When you walk
along a catwalk for example, the sound of you walking is still
there for a second or two after you stop, and you can not
distinguish the sound between you walking and the enemies walking,
coming to kill you.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The gameplay of Cold Winter is pretty nice. The levels are
not too complicated, everything is self explanatory, and the
movements are mostly smooth, but sometimes can get you in trouble
as you can not always easily target your enemy, resulting in him
shooting you, lowering your armor and health or sometimes even
kill you before you even get a shot of at him. Other that that,
Cold Winter’s gameplay is just like any other revolutionized
first person shooter game. I enjoyed this game, and recommend it.
