Cold War is a shooter developed by Mindware Studios, released 27 September 2005 on Xbox, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Cold War is
Cold War is a shooter game developed by Mindware Studios and released in 2005. It was published by DreamCatcher Games. It is available on Xbox, Linux and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
It's 1986, and the United States and the Soviet Union are taking the first tentative steps toward perestroika - a sense of friendship and cooperation that has not existed between the two world superpowers for decades. It appears that the Cold War might actually be over. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks that glasnost is a good thing. A fundamentalist faction within the Soviet government doesn't want the Cold War to thaw - they want it to heat up. Led by Barinsky, the radical head of the KGB, a group of separatists is making a last, desperate attempt to return the USSR to the control of the hard-line Communist regime by framing an American in a plot to assassinate the Soviet president and…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Cold War holds a critic score of 56 out of 100. That places it above 16% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Cold War launched on 27 September 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy and F.E.A.R.. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, F.E.A.R..
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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