Reviews - Coldplaz

Really disappointing follow up to the great original game. Misses the mark on everything that made the original great.

Cry of Fear is a mod that has a lot going for it, there was a lot of effort and polish put into the game considering it's free, the textures and gun models are very detailed and realistic, the game has lots of strong atmospheric moments and the first half if mostly enjoyable.

But don't believe the hype, this game has lots of problems. First, while the environments look great, the character and monster models look laughably outdated. While the sound design is mostly well done, the voice acting is just terrible and the story is angsty and juvenile. I wouldn't mind these flaws if the gameplay was good, but it has lots of problems.

First, the gameplay is often just very tedious, the worst offender is the overlong chapter 2 where you need to find fuses and which contains huge amount of backtracking. The inventory which is extremely strict even for survival horror standards doesn't help either, especially in the later parts when you can only carry three items instead of six.

Overall Cry of Fear is a game which can't decide if it wants to be action or horror and it doesn't really succeed at being either.