I want to be clear that this review is for Nightdive's KEX engine port of Blood, not the game itself. Classic Blood is one of the best first-person shooters ever made and it still holds up today even if you're playing it on DOS.
Now the port: Nightdive has done some good work in the past but this port feels a bit off to me. I remember playing the older version of Blood that used to be on GOG and I never recall having any issues, it worked flawlessly to my memory. I preface all of this by saying that you might not have any of the graphical bugs happen to you that I experienced on my PC.
This version seems to have something wrong with certain maps, specifically the cryptic passage maps seem to have graphical issues. I've tried a bunch of settings and nothing fixed it. I even tried running the game files with Nblood and still had graphical issues, like there's something wrong with the actual game files. This really stinks because those were the maps I was most excited to play, as I have played Cryptic Passage the least of the add-ons and that's probably the case for most people.
There are definitely quality of life and graphical improvements in the port (ambient occlusion is a great upgrade) but none of that matters to me if I'm getting unplayable screen-tearing for 15% of the maps, that's just unacceptable. Everything else is just dressing. If you look up 'Blood: Fresh Supply bugs' online, I'm definitely not the only one getting graphical bugs.
"It's something wrong with your computer". Yeah obviously dude, but that's the whole reason I'm buying a modern port; it's meant to work on modern systems. I'm running a $1600 3-year old HP Omen here, it's not some ancient ThinkPad or something. Why is it my problem to solve? That's on the developer.
You might try Fresh Supply on your PC and it may work perfectly fine, but I can only review my experience, not someone else's
I'm upset that I spent $3.99 on this game, I would be very angry if I bought it at $10 or more.
