Cold War is a stealth action adventure game with a third-person view. The game takes place during the Cold War in 1986. You will play the role of American reporter Matthew Carter, who is being basely framed by CIA agents. While in Russia on a historical research mission, his camera is replaced with one containing an X-ray weapon, and he is accused of an attempt on the life of Mikhail Gorbachov. Now an ordinary journalist must try to avoid imprisonment and, together with the loyalists, try to prove his innocence.