Good, but too easy

With the plethora of first person shooters out there, Cold Winter can hold it's own, even with a few flaws. The single player story is fragmented and easily forgetable but the gameplay is solid, though a cakewalk even on the hardest difficulty, and I encountered only a couple minor sound bugs. Control is probably the best I've seen on PS2 yet. Very responsive and precise unlike the majority of FPS games on the console with their tendency to be twitchy. All the weapons are pretty well balanced, although none have a secondary function outside of a scope. The enemies aren't real bright. Occassionally they'll tip a table over for cover or toss a smoke and advance on you. But most of the time they're out in the open, not moving, and firing in your general direction. They aren't very good shots either. A new concept of creating items from gathered materials makes an appearance. But there's not a whole lot of variety, mostly explosives of one form or another, and the materials are overly plentyful most of the time. The graphical end isn't much of an achievement, for a new game, it looks dated. But the attention to minor details livens things up a little bit. Flies gather around bodies, blood spatter runs down walls, leaving bloody footprints ect... All in all, not a bad way to kill 8 hours or so.