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.
Cry of Fear is arguably the best mod I´ve ever enjoyed. For me it is much more than just that, I consider it one of the best things that happened to genre of survial-horror when it was dying (sadly already dead by now..). The plot, soundtrack and atmosphere takes it to the level of the best Silent Hill games, again just my opinion.
More than all the mentioned Cry of Fear opened my eyes, once again, at the time I played it. That year (2014) I realized how the essence of the real horror genre didn´t exist anymore, being Sient Hill: Shattered Memories (2009) what I considered to be the last authentic experience. With such a disappointing outlook I was losing hope to ever find anything close to that essence, until Steam showed me Cry of Fear. After all this and finishing the game I came to a conclusion: the modding community had the power to do big things, to revive a dead genre killed by the industry.
The people who did Cry of Fear deserve a lot, yet they did everything just because they shared the love for this genre. They had the power to create a full experience and put hell a lot of effort on it. It is amazing how a small group could make such a big work and get thousands of us to the good old days.