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[Max]

Release Date: Februrary 22, 2012
Required: Half-Life (Steam)
http://www.cry-of-fear.com/


Cry of Fear is a first person survival horror game created by the mind behind the frightening Half-Life modification, Afraid of Monsters. The main dev Rumpel has since recruited a team to take on a second goldsrc project seen as a spiritual sequel to his first mod. Cry of Fear has been in development for almost 4 years now with a final release date announced a couple months ago (through means of getting Likes on Facebook).

Most of the gameplay should be pretty similar to AoM, pop-out scares, a great atmosphere, and scarce ammo for weapons. Multiple endings to the single-player are possible and during the later months of development the team managed to add in a 4 player co-op campaign completely separate from the single-player. The graphic work applied to the original half-life engine is absolutely incredible, I remember being blown away when I saw the first ingame screenshot released.

Earlier donations also added access to a special donator-only weapon. The option is still available but donators will be coded in sometime after release.

A nice preview write-up from ModDB


Media:

• Mod of the Year 2010 trailer
• 7 minutes of single-player gameplay
• 11 minutes of co-op gameplay

Where to download:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/cry-of-fear/downloads

 

[gabbo]

Finally out? Have been looking forward to it for about a year or so.
Will have to grab that a bit later on today.

 

[Max]

Not until Tuesday

 

[gabbo]

Ah, well I'll be grabbing it then I suppose.

 

[legacyzero]

Looks like an AWESOME concept. There is one thing that bothers me about this. Like it literally almost makes me un-interested.

SLOW THAT SHIT DOWN.

Seriously, what is this? Unreal tournament? Survival horror should feel like a frag fest, unless I'm missing the point??

EDIT: CO-OP looks very impressive though.

 

[subversus]

/watching gameplay video

he gave him the only gun he had and yet he still has one after this?

 

[Max]

The mod is available for download now:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/cry-of-fear/downloads

Played about an hour of it before it crashed. It is very atmospheric, and I think the dated engine adds to that atmosphere. Will hopefully be able to play some co-op with friends tonight.

 

[gabbo]

Forgot about this coming out on Tuesday. Will grab it asap.

 

[Metal Gear?!]

Looks like an AWESOME concept. There is one thing that bothers me about this. Like it literally almost makes me un-interested.

SLOW THAT SHIT DOWN.

Seriously, what is this? Unreal tournament? Survival horror should feel like a frag fest, unless I'm missing the point??

Half-Life is just a really fast engine

 

[Teknoman]

Those sound effects...wow. This really does seem like it would be co-op, especially with voice chat. The scream reactions would be priceless.

 

[Jenga]

Is it the same campaign when it's co-op?

 

[Max]

Is it the same campaign when it's co-op?

No, the co-op is separate

 

[Drencrom]

Looks really good. On the fence about getting HL1 on steam because of this, worth it?

Yes i'm poor atm, shut up.

 

[Plasma]

Looks really good. On the fence about getting HL1 on steam because of this, worth it?

Yes i'm poor atm, shut up.

Half Life has a lot of good old mods to play (Sven Co-Op, Natural Selection, Resident Evil Cold Blood, The Specialists etc.) so I would say yes.

You could probably get a Steam coupon from somebody as well to get some money off it seeing as the coupons expire soon.

 

[Drencrom]

Half Life has a lot of good old mods to play (Sven Co-Op, Natural Selection, Resident Evil Cold Blood, The Specialists etc.) so I would say yes.

You could probably get a Steam coupon from somebody as well to get some money off it seeing as the coupons expire soon.

Looked up Sven Co-op and RE:CB, good reception and they seem pretty neat. I'm convinced.

Got a coupon from a fellow gaffer and umeåbo Spode, thanks bro!

 

[Hellix]

I thought Cry of Fear had a pretty good horror atmosphere to it, and I felt like it was influenced by Silent Hill 2 most of the time. I read a lot about it having too many cheap jump scares but I honestly didn't feel there was a whole lot of that (or it was just too easy for me to predict). The soundtrack for this mod is also amazing; they did a really great job with it.

My first run took me almost 6 hours, but it will probably take around 2 hours if you know exactly what to do. Regardless, I recommend anyone that owns HL1 to give it a try.

I have a couple -50% Valve coupons if anyone is interested in buying HL1 just to play the mod.

 

[Erasus]

On Steam now! http://store.steampowered.com/app/223710

Played 20mins. Damn its scary. And cool to recognize the signs

 

[Quikies83]

Old as shit but this game is freakkky.
I haven't played through it in a few years but with October around the corner, I'm wanting to do another co-op playthrough.
Would any gaffers be down??