What a horrible night to have a curse!
Someone should have warned the Covenant children: “Never read aloud strange rituals.” Little did they know that their childish game would unleash unspeakable horrors upon the unsuspecting world. Now, many years later, Jeremiah Covenant, the last sane sibling,...
Someone should have warned the Covenant children: “Never read aloud strange rituals.” Little did they know that their childish game would unleash unspeakable horrors upon the unsuspecting world. Now, many years later, Jeremiah Covenant, the last sane sibling, lies on his deathbed knowing his fragile existence is the only thing restraining the curse. His only hope is Patrick Galloway, a fellow soldier from the Great War and a specialist in abolishing evil abominations.
Welcome to Clive Barker’s Undying, a horrifying FPS romp of curses, strange, mad creatures, and family dysfunction gone terribly wrong. Step into the shoes of Patrick Galloway as you attempt to banish the evil using your arcane magic and the ever-dependable six shooter of metal grace. Pray to whatever god you believe in because this journey may end up costing your soul. First person shooter meets the contemporary master of horror fiction, don't miss it!
- game looks old, but also means it is easy to run on low end hardware
- it is creepy but not really scary
- on Normal, enemies can easily beat me so resorted to cheat codes (to literlly make me Undying heh). Better FPS players should have no problem though.
- there is no map, location markers or arrows showing you where to go. So I got lost a lot, especially in the mansion
- the voice acting put me off at first but then got used to it
- last big level leading up to the last boss felt too long
- no native widescreen support. So either play in 4:3 ratio or get a patch to stretch it out to widescreen.
If the old graphics don't turn you off, then I can recommend this to fans of classic FPS like Blood, Quake 1 or Unreal 1.
This game scared the crap out of me back in the day. The first half or so of the game was outstanding, it got a bit ridiculous towards the end unfortunately. It's always worth a good replay, especially if you toss in the updated opengl renderer for it.
i heard of this game many years ago, i'm so happy to finally play this classic underrated gem.
this is Clive Barker's most successful attempt into making a video game. horror fans know him for creating the Hellraiser franchise and the cult-classic film Nightbreed. it's a gothic horror-themed first-person shooter in the same vein as "Heretic", "Quake" and "Nosferatu: Warth of Malachi" (which is another underrated gem). very atmospheric, dark, suspenseful and has some of clive barker's gothic vibes.
the plot takes place in the 1920's about the protagonist patrick galloway returning to ireland to visit an old friend and helping him discover his family's disturbing involvement with the occult and the supernatural.
the game heavily focuses on the dual wielding weapon/spell mechanics. on the left hand you use you're standard weapons suchs as pistol, shotgun and later gain even a supernatural weapon (kinda) and more. on the right hand you do magic spells, invisible eye spell too find clues, ghosts and glow in the dark, a projectile spell to kill and more. it does take time to get used to but when you do it's a breeze.
however, the game is not perfect. it has pacing issues. it starts out very promising, but the story progresses it goes back and forth and gets lost in itself, the loactions don't really blend well and you don't really get to know much of the chracters. the only way to understand some of the characters and the lore is to read the journals, letters and diaries that are scattered around the levels. the other thing is this game runs on the epic "Unreal" engine, which was a big deal at the time, but it does make the game a bit dated, on the one hand the level design and backrounds are beautiful even on an old engine. but on the other hand the character models especially in close-up are very early 2000, which is a shame. overall this is one of the best FPS horror-themed games i played.
One great game after another.
Gog, you are gods.
This game is a real horrorgame with nice story and has that oldschool fps-touch which most of the modern fps games are missing. A game every horrofan should have in their collection!
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