Grey’s life has been nothing but a struggle. A constant downward spiral, and it seems even reality has turned against him. Grey awakens to find that the world has gone quiet, the streets empty. You must find help. Explore the grim world Grey lives in a completely new and unique world, and find clues to his shattered past. Grey is a total conversion Half-Life 2 horror modification where the player must solve puzzles, fight to survive, and find out what is happening to the world around you. We have made a lot changes to the base Source engine and have added countless new mechanics in the mod such as the objective indicator, portable medkit, donator based extras, pickup animations, failed reloads, new picture based GUI elements and much, much more!
This review may contain spoilers
Pros
- The atmosphere can be cool at times.
- Collecting dolls can be exciting, and will please those OCD collectors more than anything.
- Shotgun still makes you feel bad-***.
Cons
- All the enemies are horribly unbalanced, and unfair.
- Melee weapons are completely useless.
- Map design feels lazy, and unpolished.
- The game doesn't look good, and some of the models seem extremely low-res.
- Health is too scarce.
- Monsters seem a bit cliched, and boring.
- Game doesn't exactly scare you all that much, relies too heavily on jump-scares.
- The game is way too short. With about 3 years of development time you'd expect something much bigger, and in-depth.
- Story isn't that interesting, and seems to be extremely lacking.
Sadly, Grey isn't all that fun of a game, and it isn't all that scary as well. If you're looking for a horror game/mod for PC I'd recommend Cry Of Fear over this, and I wasn't too impressed with CoF either. However, it did things right and actually pulls off some scares unlike this.
I had high-hopes for Grey and had been following it since 2009. It pains me, but I have to give Grey a 3/10. I don't recommend anyone check this out, but it's extremely short. So, feel free to get your own opinion on it. It just didn't really jive all that well with me. Maybe I expected too much from a game that was in development for 3 or so years.