Cry of Fear

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Cry of Fear [[image:|300px|center|]] Cover Release Date: 2012 Developer: Team Psykskallar Publisher: Team Psykskallar Platforms: PC Genre: Survival horror, First-person shooter

Cry of Fear is a stand-alone mod built of the GoldSrc (or GoldSource), the same engine that powers the first Half-Life. Development for the game started in 2008 and after four years of development, it had its first release in 2012 on the popular modding site moddb. After successfully being voted for releases through Steam Greenlight, it hit Steam in 2013.

The game follows Simon as he wakes up in an alley in an unnamed city (that bears very strong resemblance to Sweden's capital, Stockholm)

The following weapons appear in the video game Cry of Fear:

Overview

Cry of Fear is more of a survival horror game than a straight up shooter. The player has limited inventory space, must use morphine to regenerate health, can only save via a tape recorder (on Nightmare difficulty one must have a tape that can only be used five times in order to save, somewhat similar to the use of typewriters and ink ribbons in the earlier Resident Evil games). Ammo and firearms are also fairly rare, and the player will probably end up using more melee weapons than firearms throughout the story, similar to the Silent Hill games.

A small but interesting detail is how the game handles ammo. When reloading a firearm with a removable magazine that still has ammo in it, those rounds will be lost instead of magically added to the players reserve ammo pool as in most video games. This means that one must consider potentially wasting ammo in favor of a faster reload during gameplay.

Pistols

Glock 17

The Glock 17 is the most common firearm in the game, being the very first gun Simon gets his hands on. It's incorrectly labeled as a Glock 19 in-game (it even has Glock 19 markings). It can however be identified as a Glock 17 due to its size. It holds 15 rounds, which would be correct for a Glock 19 magazine, but is 2 rounds less than a Glock 17 mag.

The Glock is used by the "Suicider" enemy, making it the only enemy to use firearms sans bosses.

Glock 17 (3rd Generation) - 9x19mm

Glock 19 (3rd Generation) - 9x19mm. For comparison.

Simon's first encounter with the Glock 17 is all but usual.

Not phased by corpses hanging from the ceiling, he grabs the Glock pistol and begins racking the slide. Here the length of the slide is obviously the same as a Glock 17.

Simon with his Glock 17 as he prepares himself to leave the apartment.

Iron sights

Once out of ammo, the slide properly locks back and it's possible to see details inside the gun.

Reloading. Simon drops the dry mag...

...inserts a new one. Here it's possible to see the size of the grip is more inline with a Glock 17 than a 19.

Simon then racks the slide to chamber the a round, which oddly has a black tip.

Simon making his way through a vent as he encounters something really creepy. Note that the Glock 17 is dual-wielded with a flare which mirrors the model, this will happen to all dual-wielded weapons.

A Suicider with a Glock 17 next to him after the committing the act. These enemies, once they spot Simon, will run towards him firing wildly. They can be easily taken care of with one headshot as their heads are rather large. However, if they get close enough to Simon, they will raise the gun to their head and kill themselves.

The Glock 17 can be fitted with a Streamlight TLR 1 weaponlight, making it even more effective as one doesn't have to switch back and forth between their weapons in order to reload (it's not possible to reload a pistols when it's dual-wielded.

The Streamlight TLR 1 weaponlight fitted onto the Glock 17 in a blood-stained apartment.

Heckler & Koch VP70M

The Heckler & Koch VP70M with its distinctive stock is a fairly rare weapon in-game. Due to the fact that it can't be dual-wielded with a light source, is locked to fire in three-round bursts (leading to strong recoil) and its ammo being somewhat rare, makes it a rather impractical weapon.

Heckler & Koch VP70M with stock - 9x19mm

Simon first finds a VP70M lying about in an alley.

Not knowing what he's getting himself into, he picks it up.

Taking a peek at the right side of the pistol.

Realizing that the pistol is crap, Simon makes his way to Akademibokhandeln, which is an actual chain of bookstores in Sweden.

Finding the store closed, Simon sights up a Polis car (Swedish for police)

After an annoyed mag dump, Simon reloads his VP70M, first pulling out the mag...

...inserting a new one...

...then racking the slide. This correct, as real VP70's do no have a slide hold open mechanism.

Ruger P345

The Ruger P345 is first seen in the hands of the mysterious Doctor. Fairly late into the game, depending on what one chooses to do, it is possible to acquire a P345 for use by the player. While it has more stopping power than the Glock, it's overall a worse weapon, having a slower reload, smaller magazine capacity, rarer ammo and more recoil.

Simon tries bowling with an old P345, which works better than expected.

The sights on the P345 glow in the dark, which might seem like a nice feature, but is largely useless as it wouldn't be possible to see whatever one is shooting at anyway.

Simon considering handing over the empty P345 to the Doctor or keeping it for himself.

After deciding to keep it for himself (leading to some nasty consequences) he reloads the pistol.

Inserting a new magazine

Just about to hit the slid release.

Simon with his new-found pistol, about to cross a lovely lake.

Browning Hi-Power

A Browning Hi-Power Mark III makes brief appearance in some of the endings to the game.

Commercial Browning Hi-Power Mark III - 9x19mm

A good shot of the Hi-Power.

Simon inspecting the weapon.

Ditto.

Simon making his way out of his apartment, armed with a Hi-Power.

What he finds out there is hardly pleasant.

Reloading the Hi-Power simply shows it being pulled off-screen along with a bunch of noises telling us that it's being reloaded.

Submachine guns

Brügger & Thomet MP9

Brügger & Thomet MP9 with stock extended - 9x19mm

Shotguns

Remington Model 870

Remington 870 Police Magnum Riot Shotgun - 12 gauge

Rifles

M16A2

Colt M16A2 Rifle - 5.56x45mm. Select Fire rifle (Safe/Semi/3 round Burst Only).

Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I

Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk.I(T) with magazine and scope - .303 British

Famas

FAMAS G2 with proprietary bipod deployed - 5.56x45mm Note 30-round STANAG magazine.

G43

Gewehr 43 - 7.92x57mm Mauser