Clive Barker's Undying

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.

Hands-down one of the best Horror FPS games that was made by Barker. If you love horror and Lovecraftian settings, do not miss this game.

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!

What we have here is a game with some rather pretty graphics for the day, set in some interesting locales with a generally creepy vibe. I'm pretty sure these two factors are what made it appealing to people. It's not really a scary game. It's basically a fast-paced shooter built around a Lovecraft vibe. Some of it works and is entertaining, but it gets old and it drags on.

A great game until the last boss. If you call it quits there, don't be ashamed, the ending isn't worth the 6-10 minutes of holding down the right mouse button and lazily strafing side to side.