Ultimately, the game contained more than nine hundred separate animations for all characters, allowing for over five thousand possible character movements. Due to the random nature created by this, the player character required nine times the amount of animations usually seen in third-person games. They also used real physics to simulate the movement patterns of inanimate objects on the ship.
To make the ship roll realistically, the developers had to write a completely new program (dubbed the 'Darkwave editor') to allow them to control movement on both the vertical and the horizontal axes. The game was first announced at E3 in 2004. Discovering the involvement of both the Russian mafia and the CIA, Hansen sets out to ensure the parasites don't reach land. The game is centered on Tom Hansen, a member of the United States Coast Guard, who comes to the aid of a Russian whaler in the Bering Strait and finds a mysterious parasite has turned the crew into zombie-like creatures.
It was Ubisoft's first horror game, and Darkworks' second game, after Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare in 2001. Cold Fear is a 2005 survival horror third-person shooter video game developed by Darkworks and published by Ubisoft for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.
