In Cold Blood is a 2000 action-adventure video game developed by Revolution Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation.

Cord can engage in dialogue with other characters through conversation trees to gain hints of what needs to be done to solve the puzzles or to progress the plot.

Combat is available, with Cord able to utilize weapons like guns with limited ammo to defeat enemies à la Resident Evil.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, Dmitri Nagarov, chief of intelligence and security, took the opportunity to overthrow existing powers and declared independence.

The British were asked for help, and Alpha, the boss of MI6, sends agent John Cord, a long-time friend of Kiefer, to investigate.

While there, he overhears a conversation between Chi-Ling Cheung (a secret agent of the People's Republic of China) and Byrdoy Tolstov (a professor in applied physics and chemistry).

Tolstov's daughter Alexandria is being held hostage at Security Headquarters (HQ), and Cord rescues her with the help of Chi, who is suspected of being a spy.

Afterwards, Cord plants a bug on a secure server and removes a hard drive containing information relating to the VFF.

Cord later enters a room where Professor Tolstov is working, who tells him that the place "where ships go to die" is Vostograd, an abandoned naval base, where Nagarov will launch his missile.

A mini-robot kills Tolstov, but Cord uses his ID card to gain access to the refinery's particle bombardment machine called Baby Blue, which he destroys with a bomb.

In the end sequence, Cord phones Alpha and tells her that he has dumped his information about her deal with Nagarov on the Chinese and American intelligence nets.

[2] According to executive producer Charles Cecil, the game was inspired by crime films Pulp Fiction and The Usual Suspects.

[8] Gustavo Calvo-Simmons of Adventure Classic Gaming stated that, though the game has some "annoying flaws," it "can be quite charming to play if you seek to experience the thrill of being a high-tech spy infiltrating an enemy stronghold in a foreign land," and that it "offers up a decent story and interesting characters set in an alternate reality of cold war espionage.

"[22] Carla Harker of NextGen said of the game, "The worst thing about In Cold Blood is that the story is pretty interesting and you want to like it, but the rest is so bad you just can't.

"[18] Shane Wodele of GameVortex ranked the game as the "Top Pick," and praised its graphics, sound, story and puzzles.

"[23] Shawn Sanders of GameRevolution praised the game's "solid story, decent backgrounds and cool gadgets," but criticised its "lame animation, awful control and bland action.

"[13] Vincent Lopez of IGN praised the game's presentation, sound and graphics, but criticised its gameplay, saying: "As an adventure fan, you may enjoy the cool spy storyline, and some of [the] more interesting stealth elements of the game, but action gamers will find themselves in a world of intrigue, but a world without challenge.