Clive Barker's Undying

A really great atmospheric horror shooter. I had already played it so many times. The old house and the beautiful coastal atmosphere are simply legendary. The horror is sometimes subtle and sometimes action packed. There are many different rooms to explore, as well as caves, old huts, 2 great designed parallel universes and so on. Really very elaborately produced at the time and also aged very well due to the attention to detail. I'm totally happy that the GOG version runs great on Windows 10, because unfortunately my original CD is no longer compatible with Windows 10.

An early FPS to bring in more adventure, puzzle, and some minor RPG elements as well as a quick selection wheel to swap between weapons and abilities. Great atmosphere, graphics (for the time though still atmospheric), music, and enjoyable gameplay for the most part. The weapons are fun to use and satisfying, one of the only games where shooting a gun while touching a wall can cause to yo injure yourself from bullet ricochets and different weapons can have stronger effects on certain types of enemies. Spells can allow you to project a shield in front of yourself, haste yourself to make all of your actions faster including your mana regeneration, skyre can eventually let you see enemies through walls and health auras, attack spells let you shoot lightning and launch exploding skulls, and one of the more unique ones is one that will revive dead enemies to fight for you, kill undead enemies, or cause living enemies to kill themselves. It's nice to play a game where you can equip a spell to your off hand and where your mana to use them just regenerates over time rather than needing to manage some separate mana potion style pickups. Spells can be upgraded up to a fifth level improving their damage output and reducing mana cost but casting while holding a certain object in the left hand raises their level by one, possibly to six. Exploring locations and being able to see into the past or hidden images in portraits with the scrye spell is a great mechanic. Good story and journal entries that you will need to find and read to uncover some of the plot.

Never heard of it befor but I've just started the new game and I'm loving it so far.

It's one of the best games I've ever played. Cannot wait for it to be remade with modern graphics and controls. It would be so much more fun! (and SCARY!)

GOG need to get the other Clive Barker game now - Jericho