Clive Barker's Undying

What this game nails is the atmosphere. The main setting is a huge mansion and it feels like a maze. Sadly, everything is weighted down by the terrible selection of weapons. None of the weapons are really good, nor do they cater to play style. The main problem is the random hitboxes. Sometimes you can kill an enemy in two shots to the head, other times they take 5-6 bullets. Same thing with the only melee weapon, which is fun to use, but every weapon is way too slow, compared to how the enemy can close distance. Overall, a kinda confusing experience with lots of potential, but it should've chose between either focusing on gameplay or story.

Still holds up today. Good gameplay, good story, no patches.

Interesting weapons, unusual monsters, and (with one exception) entertaining boss fights--Undying is a creepy and enjoyable horror FPS. The graphics hold up well, and the sound effects are fantastic. The story, however, is rather pedestrian, with a bunch of loose ends and a garbled ending. Still, well worth a play through for any horror buff.

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.