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.