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Cry of Fear

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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 type writers and ink in the first Resident Evil). Ammo and firearms are also fairly rare, and the player will probably end up using more melee weapons than firearms throughout the story.

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 first encounter the Glock is all but usual.

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

Simon with his Glock 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 is dual-wielded with a flare which mirrors the model, this will happen to all dual-wielded weapons.

A suicider with a Glock 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 can be fitted with a flashlight, making it a very effective has 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 flashlight fitted onto the Glock in a blood-stained apartment.

Heckler & Koch VP70

The Heckler & Koch VP70 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 useless weapon.