It would be a fun game but it's completely unplayable, as it crashes every two to five minutes.
Combat is clunky as all heck and the graphics just aren't very good even for a game of this age. The friendly AI constantly gets stuck on level geometry. Voice acting is barely passable. It runs on a proprietary engine but if I didn't know any better I'd say it was Unreal Engine 2. Textures are rather low detail and character models look very stiff. And to make matters worse the framerate appears to be capped to around 80fps and I have no clue why. I'm running the game on an i7-2600K @4.6GHz, with an AsRock Fatal1ty P67 Performance motherboard, an Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB (EVGA SC GAMING) and 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 @2133MHz. Not a brilliant machine, but it sould be more than enough to deliver 100+ fps in a game like this at 1920x1080. Story and characters aren't very interesting in the first couple of hours. Maybe it gets better in the second half of the game but I have no idea, seeing as how I quit out of boredom. The setting reminds me alot of Red Faction, which is a good thing- that's one of the only positive things I can really say about this boring, ugly and clunky action RPG. To sum things up: PROS: -Low system requirements -The Mars setting is pretty cool -Xbox One & Series X/S controller works perfectly -Very, very cheap CONS: -Unoriginal enemies -Slow and unresponsive combat -Muddy visuals; poor lighting and texture work -Lackluster performance (some sort of framerate cap or refresh rate cap) -Sub-par voice acting -Story not all that original or interesting
Clive Barker's Undying is a game that has aged very poorly. It's a horror game that is not scary. It has annoying enemies that spawn every ten seconds out of thin air- and this is not hyperbole. The level design overall isn't very interesting because it's mostly just empty. This one stinks just like every other game unfortunate enough to possess the "Clive Barker's" branding.
Shame on you
First impressions are important- it crashed in the first five minutes. The game is pretty unstable and that is the one thing I have zero tolerance for.
Does anybody remember moon boots? That's what the suspension feels like. And the cars are so fragile it's like they're made of thin PVC or something. They can spin nearly 180 degrees for seemingly no reason like there are invisible oil slicks everywhere. Simply one of the worst racers I have ever played. The visuals have aged very poorly, as well; lifeless and empty environments completely devoid of any detail or character.
Most of the vehicles in the game feel like they're slipping on ice and the only ones that handle well enough are too slow for later races. There are tracks that have near 90 degree turns. On tops of all that, it's common to be in first place and crash fifty feet in front on the finish line because of the ridiculous physics objects or get rammed by an opponent and spin nearly 180 degrees. The very first time I played, I drove for over 100 metres with an opponent parked on the hood of my car. On the plus side, the game is cheap and has a nice soundtrack- it includes tracks from Audioslave and Megadeth among other halfway decent rock/metal groups. The graphics are also pretty good for a game this old, but not amazing by any standard. Performance is also okay and it never crashed for me and started without any tinkering. Works fine on Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit with a GTX 750 Ti and i7-2600 and 8GB RAM. It also works fine on my main rig with a Ryzen 5 3600 and GTX 1660 Super and 16GB RAM and Windows 10.
There isn't much I can say about this game that others haven't already. I will just say that I am a long time Wolfenstein fan and I hate this game and would never waste my time playing it again.
This game rips me a new ass every time I play it but I keep coming back to it and wasting my time because of what it could be, not what it is. It is definitely failed potential. It's slow paced, enemies are overly aggressive and seem to appear out of thin air at times. It could definitely use a more robust fast travel system- I will say that the game definitely lives up to it's reputation of being "Far Drive." It's mind-numbing, frustrating and exhausting to play. Just the same actions over and over again- like washing dishes or sweeping the floor. The gunplay itself feels very clunky. On the upside, it definitely looks pretty for a game that's over ten years old.
Enemies can see you from hundreds of metres away and kill you with very few shots. They can be hidden by dense foliage. Truly one of the most punishing first person shooters- no quicksaving. Still a good game but holy moly don't play it if you have anger management issues unless you have money for a new monitor and keyboard.
