Posted on: May 31, 2025

Tagenar

Spiele: 34 Rezensionen: 9

Too ambitious for its own good

Though the game was released in 2001 and is based on the original Unreal engine, it somehow looks more primitive than Unreal. It tries to create atmosphere and tell a story, but I think Unreal had more story and atmosphere. The story in Unreal was clear and simple. Undying is vague--something about a family curse changing each person into a monster, and it has something to do with bringing back some demon king, but what does that have to do with the curse and this family changing into demonic monsters? Why did each member of the family transform in the first place?! Even after reading the journal entries, I have no clue how it all fits together. It ambitiously uses human sprites in cutscenes, and this is something the first Unreal didn’t try. For good reason; polygon count is too low to make even stylized humans believable. Only the cutscene before the final boss feels cinematic and engaging, and that’s because it doesn’t focus on the human faces all the time. My biggest complaint is the level design. Loading screen every third door! Unreal’s levels were huge, so why are the maps in this game so small? In Unreal, it’s always clear where you need to go, why you need to go there, or pull that lever, or flip that switch. In Undying, it’s almost never clear why you’re going this direction or doing that. Each level is confusing, not intuitive. Ditto for the controls and the boss fights. The art looks primitive in a way the original Unreal does not. This is not a limit of the engine. I think it’s just the development team not knowing how to use the engine to its fullest potential. And the final boss... The all-powerful demon king is an immobile bug who is defeated by explosives? What a lame finale. (Brownie points: the mirrors in this game actually work! Even Doom 2016 doesn’t do that!)

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Posted on: April 29, 2017

n00pster

Spiele: 124 Rezensionen: 1

One of the best

One of my all time favorites. Awesome story, sound and imagery which takes you into this mystical world. I replay it once every few years. Loved the levels with the light house, the curtains flowing in the wind and the sounds of waves and winds etc. Loved seeing the broken down monastery and then going into the past during its glory, simply amazing. Loved the dynamite, scythe and magic and everything else.

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Posted on: December 23, 2017

immortalbenny

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Spiele: 980 Rezensionen: 5

Fun but tough horror fps

First Impression: This game opens up weirdly and just pumps your right into the action after less than 15 mins. Read the manual carefully to find out what the controls are. Even better run a controller program and buttonmap a controller the game responds well to homemade mapping. Story/setting: The story is quirky and does not make a whole lot of sense, but its fun and easy to follow and hides one big twist that only reveals itself until the last boss fight. The horror elements of the game are more in the story than in the setting or scares. Combat: combat is fast and though. Finding out what makes enemies go down per enemy is kinda fun. Arsenal is small but almost every weapon makes sense and has pro and cons. Be warned though even on easy i died many a time from splash explosive damage and getting trapped in corners. Lookiewise: The game aged well in my opinion and there are no major visiual bugs. Overal a fun and quick paced that offers though combat. Only bigger minus is that its sometimes kinda vague as to where you have to go for your next objective.

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Posted on: June 28, 2018

beanchilla

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Spiele: 47 Rezensionen: 7

Clive Barker on stereoids.

What a wonderful game. Clive Barker's imagination runs wild as you are taken through a long campaign with all kinds of different strange creatures and worlds. It's a great shooter that deserved a sequel. It overstays it's welcome a tiny but but there's no reason to ding it for that. it's a wild ride and you'll certainly get your money's worth from the campaign.

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Posted on: March 4, 2016

Serpent1989

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Spiele: 119 Rezensionen: 10

Good game with a few flaws

I’ve played Undying first in 2009 and it's still a bit scary to me, especially in the first part of the game, where you hunt down the first sibling Lizbeth. To me this is also the most interesting part. Not just because that undead gal is a beauty, as long as she does not open her mouth to scream like a wild animal, but because the story is also offering some great stuff and places. My favorite level is where you are trying to get the Scythe Of The Celt by travelling back in time, fighting the monks whose skeletons you were just battling a few minutes earlier. Unfortunately there are also a few flaws I was not able to overlook. And no, it is not the graphics which I still like very much and it is also not the combat system which I had no problem with and which felt very ego-shooter like to me (the Tibetan War Cannon receives from me the award of one of the coolest guns in games I’ve ever used). When you first get out of the mansion to hunt down hottie…. uhm sorry I meant Lizbeth, many levels take part in huge outside areas which destroy all the claustrophobic horror feelings you’ve had in the first levels. This continues after you’ve finally killed Lizbeth, now battling Ambrose and his pirate-type human enemies. The worst part is when you have to battle Bethany and you suddenly find yourself in a huge green stone-age type land with big waterfalls and Neanderthal type enemies which leave you wondering if you still play a so called horror game. There are many different and interesting spells which you can even boost up with pink stones you find along the campaign. Unfortunately there are so many of them that at the end of the game you’ve boosted them all to the max, so the game loses any kind of replayability by trying to upgrade a different spell on a second run through the game. Same goes for the extreme amount of health packs. Undying is still good as well as still one of a kind today. Give it a try and you'll have some fun but don't expect too much.

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