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Forgot your password?   Submitted by Jon Wilcox on March 4 2005
- 13:03  TVG straps on a life-preserver and sets sail into
stormy seas as we play Ubisoft’s Cold Fear...  In the month that
sees the European release of Capcomâ??s eagerly awaited and long
overdue Resident Evil 4, comes Ubisoftâ??s latest foray into the
survival horror genre, which has been dominated over the past
ten years by the Japanese giants: the aforementioned Capcom with
the Resident Evil franchise, and Konami with Silent Hill. Whilst
there have been others, most recently Tecmoâ??s Project Zero (or
Fatal Frame, depending on where you are reading this), the genre
has pretty much been the domain of the big two franchises â?“
but is Cold Fear a true pretender to the crown?  The game
certainly comes from a good pedigree; the developer of Cold
Fear, DarkWorks have previously been involved in the creation
the fourth iteration of arguably the first survival horror
title, Alone In the Dark