cold fear

Cold Fear is a third person survival horror video game designed by darkworks and published by ubisoft. It was released for Windows on April 29, 2005, in Europe and on May 17, 2005 for north america. It was also released for both the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles on March 4, 2005 in Europe and March 15, 2005 in North America

Throughout the series of logs found throughout the game, the reason for the cargo of Exocells was revealed. Dmitri Yusupov, a member of the Russian mafia, was originally using the Star of Sakhalin as an oil drilling platform as well as a base of operations for smuggling after purchasing it for a low price. When the drilling revealed the exocells, he then had Doctor Kamsky work with him to produce biological weapons using the exocells. The exocells proved to be a profitable pursuit as the prototypes alone was worth 150,000 USD while Pavel Bakharev developed countermeasures to ensure the exocells did not gain the upperhand. As time went on, the patience of the Cartel grew thin. Yusupov relied by strongarming Viktor to work for him. This drove Viktor insane, and he unleashed the exocells on the plattform as well as infecting himself. The Eastern Spirit whaling ship was soon found along with its cargo of exocells, and Barnett, taking the opportunity to seize the cargo in hopes of profiting from the research, ordered the investigation of the vessel.