Something in The Blood

Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon.

"Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas – what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in a powerful storm without breaking apart. If we flooded any faster I would drown in seconds."

In Cold Blood tells an interesting story, and tells it well. It's a good enough story to keep you playing despite the game's many problems, and it eventually make you want to ignore these problems altogether. You play as John Cord, a British spy with a James Bond complex who works for an undisclosed agency. Your first task is to find a missing American agent, who is imprisoned in a uranium mine in the fictional Russian state of Volgia. While exploring the mine, you'll find something else entirely. The Volgians, it seems, are up to something very strange. They've harnessed a strange form of energy, and their intentions for its use are unclear.