Dude, that's so fucking weird I did that too! Dead serious. I think I paid $2.99 a piece for them at Gamestop back when they used to have a bin full of loose PS2 discs sitting on the counter. I got a LOT of great games out of that bin back in the day.
Great review! Does anyone else feel sad that physics engines nowadays seem to have gone backwards? Ragdolls seem sparse these days and objects are nailed down to the environment. I just replayed HL2 last month and it was such a blast playing around with the game world. Good times.
IGN claims an Xbox port was planned. Wish it happened too as it would've improved the framerate and load times. Regardless though this is a great game. Funny how at a glance it may look like a cheap budget game but once you pick it up you know it has a lot going for it.
WOW!!! I just finished telling my friend ab out how much I loved this game. He looked up some UA-cam videos and was like, "This looks good... Why haven't I ever heard of this?" Very glad you made this!
I think I'm gonna check out the local retro game store to see if they've got this cult classic. Having way more fun going back and playing older games than new ones with their fancy graphics.
I'm glad you reviewed this. I also thought Cold Winter was like an unofficial Soldier of Fortune sequel because of the globe hopping and gore. It also had features that would become more used in games like Far Cry 3, like crafting and the animation used when using health packs. If any game needs to be remastered and released on the PC, it's Cold Winter.
I can see already that a lot of peeps loved this game growing up as did I. The gun play was good and the bullet damage was visceral beyond just the gibs of old.
I've always wanted to play this. It's written by one of my favorite writers: Warren Ellis. The comic book author, screenwriter, novelist behind Red and Transmetropolitan. I am thoroughly pleased to hear that you liked it so much. I might take up my search again sometime soon. Cheers
I discovered this game on one of those PS2 jampack demo discs when I was a kid. When I turned 19, I remembered this game and found a copy on amazon, and enjoyed this game immensely. Such a hidden gem.
Wow what a nostalgia trip. I played the crap out of the multiplayer in the day. Shame you weren't able to experience it. One of my favorite multi tap games!
This game was amazing to play on split screen 2v2 using a Multitap! We used to cut up refrigerator or washing machine cardboard boxes to divide the screen in two to avoid screen peeking, we even took the curvature of the CRT into consideration and closed the gap with some card stock and bits of transparent sticky tape. One side got controllers 1 and 3 which was top left/bottom left and the other side got 2 and 4 which were top right/bottom right. This had great gunplay for the time, but unfortunately the devs decided to put a literal bright red marker that even showed distance to target over the enemy players. It would be visible constantly unless you crouch walked and it couldn't be turned off. We ended up migrating to Delta Force: Black Hawk Down after a while for our gaming nights, which was also a whole lot of fun in itself. Cold Winter is running on Renderware, a very capable (again, for the time) rendering engine that was compatible with just about every major gaming platform in the 2000's. They could have very well released it on PS2, Gamecube, Xbox and PC and sold more copies. I'd love to see what the modding community would make for this in the PC realm.
YOU REVIEWED THIS! I was the one who mentioned this game and you had responded months ago you would! Shame on youtube for never giving me the notification, thank you :)
Picked this up back in 2010 when my brother got a PS3 as we were both Xbox fanboys at the time of Cold Winter's release. It's a dream of mine to seeing this getting the proper re-release it deserves. It was one of the most ambitious FPS's ever released on the PS2!
Great review. This is one of my favourite games on the PS2. It deserves a remake with new graphics and improved AI but no changes on the rest, it’s good the way it is.
I actually played this on my vacation to Africa back in 2006, and also while still living in upstate NY. Never owning a gaming PC, i was still looking for that elusive 007 Goldeneye 64 style of game. The OG Xbox had a few contenders (Far Cry, Half-Life 2, Timesplitters 2 & 3). However, besides Red Faction, Timesplitters, MOH FL, and Wolfenstien, *Cold Winter* was one of the purest FPS titles on the PS2. Worthy edition to the collection. Game on!
@xman777b Thanks for your input on the game my friend. Came to discover I already own the game in my PS2 collection & I have no idea how I obtained it.
@vinniecorleone62 that's kewl. Truth be told, I definitely remember you showing it, in one of your pick-up videos a few years back. By the way, there is a strategy guide for this one.
@vinniecorleone62 yeah. If I didn't write inventory lists for my games/strategy guides, I definitely would've forgot a few as well. Have a feeling I mistakenly repurchased that little Battlefield Bad Company 2 guide, a few weeks ago. Take it easy Deano
The whole video I kept telling myself, "this reminds me of Black" and then you made the comparison now I need this game in my life. I feel Black deserves a mandatory playthrough by all single player FPS fans because it's a damn good play the first time through and this looks like a similar level of enjoyment and Mayhem. Can't wait to try and find a copy
@@pp3k3jamail the AI in most fps games is not good at all. i would argue that some of this games strong points make up for its mediocre AI. its honestly one of the better shooters on ps2, not quite up there with timesplitters but still very playable. plus the idea of a gritty m rated take on a bond game is just cool
I got the demo of this when I was 12 or so in a playstation magazine. Wasn't allowed to play these games so i must have played that demo 1000 times without my parents knowledge. Also played the demo of Darkwatch. Can you review that as well? never got to play that full game on ps2
Another great review. I'd love to see you reviewing Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter on the PS2, far as I can tell you've never covered it. Flawed but interesting game, that one - varied gameplay but awful shooting.
Cold Winter was one of those games that I thought was pretty forgettable upon the first playthrough. Then some years later I'd play through it again and see a sort of "value" that I just didn't see before. I'm in definite agreement about the comparison to Black and SoF2 - actually, I prefer it to both games. Black had no multiplayer, no gore system, enemy deaths were (I think) animation-based rather than physics-based, character dialogue was really mindless, ridiculous perfectionism (e.g. destroy every single fuel tank, barrel, etc.) was required to pass the game on Black Ops (the highest) difficulty, less variation in enemy appearances (always a variation on the faceless, masked paramilitary/insurgent character), less overall weapons. Perhaps Black's only clear advantage is that it was graphically superior - yet somehow Black is remembered while this game isn't. It is actually closer to being a much more violent version of 007-shooters like Agent Under Fire if one aims for the closest comparison possible. I still remember the early Egyptian city levels (my favourite part of the game) just after escaping the PRC prison fondly, and some weapons like the AK and PKM were very fun to use. There are still many games I feel it loses to - even on the back of the game manual is an advertisement for Scarface: The World Is Yours, a marvelous, similarly violent, large scale and nowadays obscure game that would be released a year later, also published by Vivendi. And half a year earlier, I felt, Killzone did a lot of things better - looked better, had a much better multiplayer mode (e.g. 14 bots maximum against Cold Winter's lousy 3), much more replay-ability (e.g. unique paths for certain characters) and was more creative than a mere "rogue agent" story similar to Goldeneye: Rogue Agent. I'd wager Cold Winter may become more of one of those "cult classics" in time, with a small group of both praisers and haters, most people totally oblivious to the topic being discussed, often in a hotly, profanity-laden manner. Far Cry 2 has already became the same way - some proclaim it the series' best, others the worst, but few seem to be merely ambivalent.
the turning speed and the aiming sensitivity is pretty bad and I wish I could increase it but the game is so good (one of the best ps2 shooters IMO) that I don't really let that bother me
there's nothing more annoying than a tool gamer saying "campaign" ... you played a game that's it, you didn't run for election, and you didn't do anything more than playing a game, and that's fine but ppl need to stop saying that, I cringe when he said that
@@xXMalakianXVII hey look pal I don't know what your story is but I've been smoking crack rock all night, I'm not having any of shit right now ok so just cool your jets Eddie, I was blow torching those chunky white boulders all night, I'm geeked out
The Physics engine and gore is all the game has going for it. Dumb AI, clunky controls, Extreme linearity with no room for stealth or tactic, generic plot and pre 2000 graphics.
PS2 game.... its insane how sh!t DeusEx looks in comparison. Why did people not hear about or play Cold Winter? Because its part of the console exclusive cancer race. And Cold Winter is just a stupid name in general. If someone would say Cold Winter in a sentence, i would probably say, No sh!t mate! And water is still wet....
I remember I bought Cold Winter and Cold Fear on the same day.
It was a cold day, but a good one.
Cold Fear, another fun forgotten cult classic.
Dude, that's so fucking weird I did that too! Dead serious. I think I paid $2.99 a piece for them at Gamestop back when they used to have a bin full of loose PS2 discs sitting on the counter. I got a LOT of great games out of that bin back in the day.
Should have bought Cold War too.
Looks like a British Soldier of Fortune, which is right up my alley.
I should grab this title.
I loved this Game as Kid so much :D Still got the original in my shelf
gory PS2 shooter with good graphics and physics and I never heard of it...no way..."Emulator mode activated"
Great review! Does anyone else feel sad that physics engines nowadays seem to have gone backwards? Ragdolls seem sparse these days and objects are nailed down to the environment. I just replayed HL2 last month and it was such a blast playing around with the game world. Good times.
You just gotta find them, Borderlands had the next step in physics with liquid and debris along with nice Ragdolls.
@@lasarousi Was that a joke?
This game is ridiculously underrated. I can't believe it was a PS2 exclusive.
IGN claims an Xbox port was planned. Wish it happened too as it would've improved the framerate and load times.
Regardless though this is a great game. Funny how at a glance it may look like a cheap budget game but once you pick it up you know it has a lot going for it.
WOW!!! I just finished telling my friend ab out how much I loved this game. He looked up some UA-cam videos and was like, "This looks good... Why haven't I ever heard of this?" Very glad you made this!
I think I'm gonna check out the local retro game store to see if they've got this cult classic.
Having way more fun going back and playing older games than new ones with their fancy graphics.
So true bro despite having newer consoles I prefer playing my retro ones
So true bro despite having newer consoles I prefer playing my retro ones
The nostalgic from this video.. good times! Thanks man for bringing back some good old memories
Damn shame this never got a PC release. It has so many cool qualities.
I remember playing this all the time, along with a ton of PS2 shooters like this.
It was pretty fun and addicting as hell.
I'm glad you reviewed this.
I also thought Cold Winter was like an unofficial Soldier of Fortune sequel because of the globe hopping and gore. It also had features that would become more used in games like Far Cry 3, like crafting and the animation used when using health packs.
If any game needs to be remastered and released on the PC, it's Cold Winter.
I can see already that a lot of peeps loved this game growing up as did I. The gun play was good and the bullet damage was visceral beyond just the gibs of old.
I love that you guys do games that I don't even knew existed.
I've always wanted to play this. It's written by one of my favorite writers: Warren Ellis. The comic book author, screenwriter, novelist behind Red and Transmetropolitan. I am thoroughly pleased to hear that you liked it so much. I might take up my search again sometime soon. Cheers
I discovered this game on one of those PS2 jampack demo discs when I was a kid. When I turned 19, I remembered this game and found a copy on amazon, and enjoyed this game immensely. Such a hidden gem.
Wow what a nostalgia trip. I played the crap out of the multiplayer in the day. Shame you weren't able to experience it. One of my favorite multi tap games!
3:01 "Come on, Jim. Stop screwing around. J-Jim? Lazy bastard." 😂
And another great vid. I could listen to you talking about games all day.
This game was amazing to play on split screen 2v2 using a Multitap! We used to cut up refrigerator or washing machine cardboard boxes to divide the screen in two to avoid screen peeking, we even took the curvature of the CRT into consideration and closed the gap with some card stock and bits of transparent sticky tape. One side got controllers 1 and 3 which was top left/bottom left and the other side got 2 and 4 which were top right/bottom right.
This had great gunplay for the time, but unfortunately the devs decided to put a literal bright red marker that even showed distance to target over the enemy players. It would be visible constantly unless you crouch walked and it couldn't be turned off. We ended up migrating to Delta Force: Black Hawk Down after a while for our gaming nights, which was also a whole lot of fun in itself.
Cold Winter is running on Renderware, a very capable (again, for the time) rendering engine that was compatible with just about every major gaming platform in the 2000's. They could have very well released it on PS2, Gamecube, Xbox and PC and sold more copies. I'd love to see what the modding community would make for this in the PC realm.
Fun fact, the game's story was written by famed comic book writer Warren Ellis.
THATS WHAT LED ME HERE OMG
I remember playing this game back in the day and man it was a hell of a fun blasting them into bits.
YOU REVIEWED THIS! I was the one who mentioned this game and you had responded months ago you would! Shame on youtube for never giving me the notification, thank you :)
Picked this up back in 2010 when my brother got a PS3 as we were both Xbox fanboys at the time of Cold Winter's release.
It's a dream of mine to seeing this getting the proper re-release it deserves. It was one of the most ambitious FPS's ever released on the PS2!
Great review. This is one of my favourite games on the PS2. It deserves a remake with new graphics and improved AI but no changes on the rest, it’s good the way it is.
At 6:29, now that's what I call an explosion.
Like far cry 2 but better overall
Good times...
Project Snowblind anyone?
Thank you for the excellent & detailed review, adding to my PS2 buy list to get soon, never played it.
I actually played this on my vacation to Africa back in 2006, and also while still living in upstate NY. Never owning a gaming PC, i was still looking for that elusive 007 Goldeneye 64 style of game. The OG Xbox had a few contenders (Far Cry, Half-Life 2, Timesplitters 2 & 3). However, besides Red Faction, Timesplitters, MOH FL, and Wolfenstien, *Cold Winter* was one of the purest FPS titles on the PS2. Worthy edition to the collection. Game on!
@xman777b Thanks for your input on the game my friend. Came to discover I already own the game in my PS2 collection & I have no idea how I obtained it.
@vinniecorleone62 that's kewl. Truth be told, I definitely remember you showing it, in one of your pick-up videos a few years back. By the way, there is a strategy guide for this one.
@@xman777b Thanks. My memory is very poor now, I can't even remember a lot of my collection anymore.
@vinniecorleone62 yeah. If I didn't write inventory lists for my games/strategy guides, I definitely would've forgot a few as well. Have a feeling I mistakenly repurchased that little Battlefield Bad Company 2 guide, a few weeks ago. Take it easy Deano
The whole video I kept telling myself, "this reminds me of Black" and then you made the comparison now I need this game in my life. I feel Black deserves a mandatory playthrough by all single player FPS fans because it's a damn good play the first time through and this looks like a similar level of enjoyment and Mayhem. Can't wait to try and find a copy
When I first played this, the first thing that popped in my head was "huh, this reminded me of Goldeneye."
One issue to keep in mind if playing on an actual Playstation 2 console is that the save data takes up half of a standard memory card.
This was the shit back in the day for parties
The soundtrack to this game was so good!
Good shit fam, love yalls videos
Omg, some the best split screen of my child hood. Rented it about 5 times from blockbuster til finally brought it when they closest 😂
absolutely underrated gem for the ps2. glad to finally see you getting around to it.
This game ain't no underrated gem the AI sucks
@@pp3k3jamail the AI in most fps games is not good at all. i would argue that some of this games strong points make up for its mediocre AI. its honestly one of the better shooters on ps2, not quite up there with timesplitters but still very playable. plus the idea of a gritty m rated take on a bond game is just cool
hidden gem with meatiest gore in any ps2 shooter
I loved this game when I was a child,still rocks
I know what I'm trying out next.
you will love it
I would love to see you guys review the Metro franchise
You should review Project Eden very underrated game!!!!!
ayo new video who dis
another great video, never even heard of this game so this was an interesting watch
Cold Winter was a game that blow me because the Gory kills and the story. And was good shit
And the menu theme music still on my head since
Cold winter is the only ps2 era fps i beat. I beat it in 2015. I liked it.
I was thinking Cold Fear
I got the demo of this when I was 12 or so in a playstation magazine. Wasn't allowed to play these games so i must have played that demo 1000 times without my parents knowledge. Also played the demo of Darkwatch. Can you review that as well? never got to play that full game on ps2
Would love to see you review Deus Ex GOAT, Revision, & GMDX!
Deuz x 1?...from 2000?
Gaming pastime there's really unique fps called magic carpet. Could take a look
I can Jason Stathem as Andrew Sterling
A good brit goldeneye type game....their cricket games were actually a tonne of fun (if you lile cricket that is!)
Gotta love all that carnage.
Could you do Call of Duty 3?
You should play Marine Sharpshooter Jungle Warfare.
What a hidden gem
Just hearing of this game in 2023 haha
Does A.I Improve on higher difficulty? Game looks awesome
Wow my childhood this was my favorite game on the PS2
Enjoyed the hell out of this game. You should take a look at Project Snowblind too!
Another great review. I'd love to see you reviewing Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter on the PS2, far as I can tell you've never covered it. Flawed but interesting game, that one - varied gameplay but awful shooting.
Dude I loved this game back on the old ps2 it was awesome
Do: cold fear
I loved this game, the gore in it was second to none compared to most games even today
This game is even better when using Blaze Xploder HDTV disk to force 480p.
one good game
God I used to log hours on to this game as a kid good times wish I still had my ps2
The multiplayer was so much fun.
Underrated gem!
Cold Winter was one of those games that I thought was pretty forgettable upon the first playthrough. Then some years later I'd play through it again and see a sort of "value" that I just didn't see before. I'm in definite agreement about the comparison to Black and SoF2 - actually, I prefer it to both games. Black had no multiplayer, no gore system, enemy deaths were (I think) animation-based rather than physics-based, character dialogue was really mindless, ridiculous perfectionism (e.g. destroy every single fuel tank, barrel, etc.) was required to pass the game on Black Ops (the highest) difficulty, less variation in enemy appearances (always a variation on the faceless, masked paramilitary/insurgent character), less overall weapons. Perhaps Black's only clear advantage is that it was graphically superior - yet somehow Black is remembered while this game isn't. It is actually closer to being a much more violent version of 007-shooters like Agent Under Fire if one aims for the closest comparison possible. I still remember the early Egyptian city levels (my favourite part of the game) just after escaping the PRC prison fondly, and some weapons like the AK and PKM were very fun to use.
There are still many games I feel it loses to - even on the back of the game manual is an advertisement for Scarface: The World Is Yours, a marvelous, similarly violent, large scale and nowadays obscure game that would be released a year later, also published by Vivendi. And half a year earlier, I felt, Killzone did a lot of things better - looked better, had a much better multiplayer mode (e.g. 14 bots maximum against Cold Winter's lousy 3), much more replay-ability (e.g. unique paths for certain characters) and was more creative than a mere "rogue agent" story similar to Goldeneye: Rogue Agent.
I'd wager Cold Winter may become more of one of those "cult classics" in time, with a small group of both praisers and haters, most people totally oblivious to the topic being discussed, often in a hotly, profanity-laden manner. Far Cry 2 has already became the same way - some proclaim it the series' best, others the worst, but few seem to be merely ambivalent.
Swordfish Studious
RIP
Do Cold Fear
the turning speed and the aiming sensitivity is pretty bad and I wish I could increase it but the game is so good (one of the best ps2 shooters IMO) that I don't really let that bother me
Bit late but it has a mouse injector now
This game was impressive for it's time I remember being impressed with the way limbs fall off or explode
sloppy movement (in a bad way, not like well thought out way like for example in operation flashpoint ) ruins this otherwise decent game
The multiplayer was the best in this game!
there's nothing more annoying than a tool gamer saying "campaign" ... you played a game that's it, you didn't run for election, and you didn't do anything more than playing a game, and that's fine but ppl need to stop saying that, I cringe when he said that
Lol, alright... tough guy.
@@xXMalakianXVII hey look pal I don't know what your story is but I've been smoking crack rock all night, I'm not having any of shit right now ok so just cool your jets Eddie, I was blow torching those chunky white boulders all night, I'm geeked out
@jacksizzle8937 damn dude you must be surfing powerlines on Mercury right now
I can't play games like this that have terrible Ai
This game should be perfect for the Nintendo switch.
The Physics engine and gore is all the game has going for it.
Dumb AI, clunky controls, Extreme linearity with no room for stealth or tactic, generic plot and pre 2000 graphics.
PS2 game.... its insane how sh!t DeusEx looks in comparison. Why did people not hear about or play Cold Winter? Because its part of the console exclusive cancer race. And Cold Winter is just a stupid name in general. If someone would say Cold Winter in a sentence, i would probably say, No sh!t mate! And water is still wet....
bruh moment
Do y really have to speak so fast?!
Thanks for sharing,though.