So far: amazingly scary config menus! Your cursor sets the options on fire! With ominous chanting in the background! Setting screen resolutions has never been so unnerving!
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So far: manages some cheap scares, but they're undone by shoving well-lit low-poly models in the player's face. There's also loads of leaden exposition, which feels very un-Barker. From my limited exposure to him, he tends to throw you into a freaky world with little to no explanation or backlore. This is full of monologues and then diary entries transcribing the monologues. Still, the mechanics of strafing round an old mansion shooting at helldogs with a rusty old revolver are pretty tense.
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I am not enjoying Undying that much. The atmosphere is pretty creepy (albeit in a cliched way - old mansion, creaky noises, things moving mysteriously, eerie laughter etc) but the UI is really clunky and the combat is incredibly irritating - weapons and powers that are under-powered and take ages to reload, enemies that are in your face the entire time and spawn far too often. Also, walking round and round a mansion, getting lost and banging your head against locked or fake doors is not particularly satisfying. A few cool moments, though, so I'll push through for a while and see how it goes.
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Due to clunkiness, frustrating combat and, to be charitable, inconsistent tone: Clive Barker's Uninstalled.
Rating: Red.
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