Clive Barker's Undying

Wow, I can't believe this game slipped past my radar. This gem is a great FPS horror game. The story is very well written by the author Clive Barker. If you like FPS and horror, you will love this game.

The shooter part is nor amazing nor bad, it's just a average shooter, as for the rest - the story has been written by Clive Barker so it's quite good.

The visuals are very dated, there are better looking games on phones. The atmosphere is great, marred the said visuals from time to time. The story is appropriately moody and macabre, but hey, it's Clive Barker, we all know him. The gameplay, on the other hand, is rubbish by today's standards. Inferior shooting in vast, empty corridors. What I especially like are the paintings that look differently when scrying. Three points for the ambition and for the desire to tell the story, cannot give more since it's 2013, and objectively, games are in an entirely diffetent universe today. Some games, like my favorite Dreamweb, age well. This one, not so much.

This game has not aged well. The enemies aren't fun to fight and the levels are confusing. The atmosphere is good, but the design of the game does not utilize that atmosphere.

I remember this game getting decent reviews back in the day so I thought I'd check it out here for October as it seemed like a good choice for a spooky game...I was wrong. It's way too whacky and poorly designed. Honestly I wasn't really enjoying it that much before that, I'm not a fan of the leaping enemies in this game whatsoever, their hitboxes are weird and their leaps sometimes hit me when they seem like they shouldn't have and the the monks who are a complete and total joke...the zombies don't seem to be able to be killed so I just run past them...and that's literally all the enemies I've seen in several hours of gameplay...really lacking in enemy variety and all the 'horror' stuff I've seen just falls flat, it's lacking the visual design for my brain to say horror...it all just seems silly and whacky to me. The family members are some of the worst offenders for this. There's also an absolutely insane amount of backtracking in levels that are too large and empty with respawning enemies, with no in-game map, and a slow running speed. These all add up to a game that is a chore to play. I did like that the voice acting made an attempt to capture the setting as accurately as they did. Also once I got to a certain point in the game it just crashes constantly without fail every 15 minutes or so and I can't deal with that.