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.
I first played the game solo... It is so creepy, so frightening that it can't be described unless you try it yourself. Cheap screamers but also a very polished atmosphere both await the player at every corner of the streets.
Then I played coop... And it is way way less scary when you have the moral support of your teammates. Still, it is a lot of fun when finishing off giant creepy monsters with nothing but a tree branch because of the scarce ammo.
Play it. If you're too chicken, play coop, but just play it.