Clive Barker's Undying FPS..

[retroborg]

I found Clive Barker's Undying at a shop for 10Euros (12$) brand new.
I'm an old school FPS fan... My favorites are:

Alien Vs Predator 2
Doom 1, 2, 3, ROE
Duke Nukem 3D
Heretic & Expanion
Hexen & Expanion
Hexen II & Expanion
Unreal 1

So based on this info, is "Clive Barker's Undying" worth spending the time & money for it?
I read that it's using the Unreal 1 engine which I really liked back in the day. (Awesome lens flares & effects)
But how good is it game-play wise & music, which is very important in my book.
Is it a long game by the way? I hate short games.

Thanks in advance.

[Lee H]

I love undying as its a gothic, dark, errie game with oodles of atmosphere but some people say its a bit "boring".

Personally i think its not that bad at all IMO, and I still occasionally play undying when not playing HL2 or CS

[EDIT] Check this http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/clivebarkersundying/

9.1/10 crackin' score and yes its got great gameplay and some moments where you WILL jump ( more than AvP 2 as well )

[TheBuZZard]

Undying is very good but last time I tried playing it I had troublre getting it to work under Win XP.

[retroborg]

I'm using WinXP SP2....
Hhmm...

[Ferral]

I've got that one and found it runs well on XP, could be drivers possibly.

As for the game itself, I really enjoyed it, played through it a few times, story is pretty good. It does run on the Unreal Engine (think it might actually be the first tournament engine)

As mentioned, its very gothic and it is actually quite creepy in places with the old haunted house story, kind of reminds you of HP Lovecrafts work. I would say get it, very underated when it was first released.

Another good one if you like this is American McGees Alice.

[retroborg]

Yeah, I all ready completed Doom III & ROE (Awesome games) & need to roast more hell spawned bastids!

By the way, is the gameplay linear like Unreal 2 & the newer FPS games, or does it involve a lot of exploration like the old school Doom 1 & 2, Heretic, Duke3D, Unreal 1, etc...
Or even better does it have the Hub level system (Like Hexen I & II) where you have to revisit levels when a door has opened for example...

I like exploration, a lot of secrets, multiple paths & hidden locations in a FPS game, something most newer ones lack tremendously.
Where as, linear mindless blasting FPS like Unreal, Halo, etc… left me highly unimpressed.
So I would like to avoid something like that.

Thanks in advance.