Ubi gives us the (Cold) Fear

Ubisoft is hoping to be responsible for soiled pants up and down the land next March, having entered the merry survival horror genre (or "action-horror" as the French publisher calls it) with newly announced title Cold Fear.

Developed by the appropriately named Darkworks, Cold Fear is due out on PS2, Xbox and PC, and drags the action out of mansions and crumbling city streets and thrusts it out onto the ocean instead. So if you're not crapping yourself, you can at least expect some seasickness.

You control a chap called Tom Hansen, a US Coast Guard sent on board a drifting Russian whaling ship in the Bering Sea in the middle of a ferocious storm. You spend time on both the ship and a mysterious oil rig, and at the moment we don't know much about what happens on either, other, that is, than you'll be fighting human enemies "and enemies that aren't human any more".

Ubisoft's Alain Corre fills in some more blanks. "The game is set in a dynamic environment on a stormy sea, including intense combat, intelligent enemies, and a high element of the shockingly unexpected," he said. "Your life jacket won't be sufficient!"

Which all sounds... Um, hang on, what was Obscure then, if not action-horror? Ah well. Have a look at some screenshots.