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Clive Barker's Undying Review

Grade D

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Undying is an old first person shooter. It runs pretty well but the graphics are primative by modern standards. The protagonist runs decently but jumps so poorly he has trouble clearing a step. Controls are functional but limited. You can save the game any time you want and can duplicate the Save folder if you run out of slots.

The most modern weapons are a revolver and shotgun and they do not auto-target. Worse yet, the enemies (who don't seem to have any real purpose except to get in the way) close in for hand to hand combat. At that point you cannot see them or target them and they push you about. It's very frustrating and I used the all weapons cheat early on so I would not run out of ammo.

There are a few other weapons and you have spells which can be powered up with amplifiers you find. Knowing what to use and when has to be learned in the game or from a walk through [G]. It is not intuitive.

But there is a lot of area to explore and I enjoyed it until the game locked up half way through. I contacted Aspyr but they were not much help, giving me the standard reinstall, and start over, and not use cheats, with no guarantee the same problem would not occur again. It never really appeared the person I was talking too comprehended the game or problem.

The game was not that good and certainly was not worth trying again or playing without cheats. I only played it to start with because it came in the Leave The Lights On package with American McGee's Alice. I can't recommend Undying unless you really like this style of game. It would only have earned a C even if it had not locked up.

I used the walk through written by Daniel Engel which should be available from cheatcc.com and cheatindex.com. The computer I used was an 2004, 1GHz, 768MB 12" iBook running OS X 10.3.7. It more than exceeded the system requirements.