you have to keep the time in mind, when it was published.

i played it with a friend on a weekend. prepared with lots of microwave popcorn.
it was not so much about the jump scears, but more the atmosphere. the sound of the radio, when a zombie was nearby, was nerve wrecking at times. then the other dimension (forgot the name)

and that was published on the playstation 1. for me it is like mgs, they tried to squeeze the last bit of performance out of the hardware.

i haven’t played it since. so i don’t know how it aged. but when it came out, there was bothing like that.