Clive Barker's Undying

I remember playing this back in the day and it scared the bejeebus out of me. Even then the controls and combat were annoying and I died often, but I put up with it due to the creepy atmosphere. Graphics were fine for the day. all that being said I would not think it would hold up to a new player who didnt have any rose colored memories of playing this. Read those reviews from first time players and see what I mean, the rest of the reviews are like me, ones who enjoyed it very much but from decades ago memory.

Horribly optimized for newer machines. You have to go into the system.ini file and user.ini files and manually edit the parameters to be able to play with a modern resolution, otherwise you are stuck with 640x480 or have to play in a tiny window. Even when I manually changed the values, the game just changes them back to the default when you run it. Playing on any higher resolution garbles all the letter on the screen to illegible. When I went into my nvidia control panel to try and let my video card render the game instead of the software, it crashed. Good thing this was just $1.49.

though not the best in actual gameplay, the level design, amount of detail and amazing story make it one of the best fps for me. favourite level: the monastery. now I know where new-retro-shooters like "dusk" got their inspiration from ...

This game is amazing and it's worth buying it! It's kinda spooky as well

I played this game a long time ago and just recently bought it on Gog and replayed it. Even tough it is 19 years old at the moment it's still an amazing game regardless of the outdated graphics. The story is dark and twisted (pure Clive Barker style for the fans) and the ambience keeps you on edge most if not all of the time. There is some exploration involved here and there if you want to find extra stuff like lore and items. Combat wise i finished it on all difficulties and it's one of the few titles in which the difficulty setting actually corresponds, meaning that Easy IS Easy and Hard IS Hard. Compatibility wise it runs perfectly even on modern day systems, the only so called issue i had on Win 10 was the colour depth setting that run only on 16bit. Worth every $ !!!