If you found Ravenholm scary then you would [cabbage] yourself playing the Underground/Lab levels of STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl. With dynamic lighting turned up, the atmosphere is so perfect with moans, screams of various creatures, clanky machinery noises coupled with limited ammo and non-regenerating health.
They can arm themselves especially in international waters but the fact is if they have guns and start shooting, it will provoke the pirates into shooting/killing them instead of their lives being spared for ransom.
Picked it up this weekend from Steam, alot of content for a $12 http://store.steampowered.com/app/13210/ (40% off, ends tomorrow) Surprised that this has never really taken off considering the popularity of the preceding Unreal games. Graphics are A++, achievements, unlockables, vehicles, fast paced twitch gaming. Anyone play it? Can't say I can give you a game considering i will get ridiculously high pings from servers outside of AU/NZ.
I reccomend only buy from some stores (Playtech, Computerlounge, Ascent, Ifocus,XP Computers, PBtech) as the price for parts may be more, but you get more service, extremely fast delivery and fast warranty acknolegements if something goes wrong.
Depends if you want to overclock or not, stock would be fine for normal use and overclocking (C2D's OC well with stock) but if you want to go insane OC'ing (4ghz+ etc.) then an aftermarket cooler is a good suggestion.
iirc Fan Control is only for the 4800s, if you want to control it manually, you will need to download Rivatuner. My 3870 idles ~60C and peaks at about 75C at load