You wake up in a dark alley, not knowing anything. What has happened anyway? You struggle after the truth and answers. Answers you want to know in the darkness and fear, which makes your heartbeat race like violent blows against your head. Where do "they" come from? What has happened? Are you just turning insane? The time is up; you can't stay there reading your smses forever. It's time to head out and find the answers. Cry of Fear is a singleplayer modification of Half-Life 1 which brings you the horror you've always been afraid of. It's a total conversion of Half-Life 1, which means it uses NO Half-Life 1 content or other peoples' files. It's all made exclusively by the developers. It also uses new gaming styles that you will rarely find in Half-Life mods, such as advanced cutscenes and other stuff that will be revealed at a later date.
7/10 - Agree (15) Disagree (12)
I'll give it a 7/10, though maybe it deserves 8.5/10
PROS:
- great atmosphere
- good design of some monsters and levels
- great music, especially tracks with guitar
- cutscenes
- some great moments, that happens
- this mod (or game?) is finally out, and it contains great amount of work, great
CONS:
- all of this is second-hand. really.
author's just took enormous amount of things and decisions that they watched in Silent Hill (especially 3rd and 2nd), Condemned, maybe somewhere else.
Yes, Cry of Fear is free game made by enthusiasts..
BUT.. If you make smth like made before, try to make it better.
While Cry of Fear , pityfully, is a bag of weakness.
The storyline has too many unlogical (not surreal, just unlogical) things.
The heroes' characters are just WTF? While main hero is naive idiot, the girl is also cartoonish character, and actions that are made in heroe's narration is also weak and unstable.
Locations and city are also "random".
Of course, it was just Rumpel and his friends BUT
If you watch "No Escape" fanmade movie, you'll notice that the main story line is very similar to CoF's, the difference that in Cry of Fear main hero has much less people he lost.
There is "Mulholland Drive" and "Requiem for a Dream" story types.
CoF's is close to second, i mean general message of story and metaphor.
It's really sad that with all great amount of work, "Cry of Fear" is so "inspired by inspired".
- And also backtracking. Cry of Fear's level design is not perfect for it, cause all levels are more "long way", while for backtracking better when there are "independent but clear locations".
EDIT:
Well, Cry of Fear's team has nothing with that movie, sorry.