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Gameguru Mania News - Sep,09 2002 -

The Thing - in-house
(hx) 09:33 AM CEST - Sep,09 2002 - Post a comment / read (22)

The Thing is a video game based off of the 1982 horror film, John Carpenter's The Thing (based on John W. Campbell's 1937 short story "Who Goes There?") starring Kurt Russell (MacReady) and Keith David (Childs). I still very like this movie, it's probably one of the best Sci-Fi Horror flicks ever...
read a full review [Universal Interactive]

last 10 comments:

maga	posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 12:43
super game, i pissed my pants (from fear :) )

muppetman	posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 14:58
mega u must be a 5yr old cos this is about as scary as donald duck

nothing

posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 16:28

Games based on movies have pretty much failed, however, I'll give it a try since the movie was great. Memorable moments include the doctor keeling over and everyone trying to resucitate him, pounding at his chest and all of a sudden the doctor's chest just caving in and snapping the arms off the poor fellow who was pounding at the doctor's chest. Secondly, the tension when Kurt Russell ties everyone up and begins testing blood samples to see who is The Thing.....then the look of fear and panic for the poor fellow sitting beside the person who was The Thing. Bah, go watch the movie.

Cyco

posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 18:16

Good game, not quite as scary to play as AvPbut it's up there on my top 5 of most scary games easily. Graphics does the job so I don't complain that it looks alittle outdated (the better it runs on my somewhat outdated system). I don't play senseless multiplayer games, I tend to be drawn to games with a story, senseless multiplaying have no appeal to me so this game fit me like a glow. Give it a try if demo comes out.

Lard Ass

posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 19:07

Cyco your theory on "senseless multiplayer games" seem weak ! The theory behind multiplayer games is that by being open to the online community it will prolong its longevity thus bring about newbie’s and mods for variations in the game modes ! As for games with a story they're few and far between as they only take around a week or two at the most to complete and then what do u do with it, swap it with a m8 or put it in the bargain pages : )

Cyco	posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 22:17
Senseless in the sense of Quake, Unreal Tournament and such (games a chimp could win in by just banging his head against the keyboard). I don't think a game automatically is senseless just because it features multiplayer.

hero x	posted - Sep, 09 2002 - 22:23
so bad shooting, bad camera, moves are so bad, i dont like it,why are you given too much points??

cunning

posted - Sep, 10 2002 - 00:23

the game has it's good and bad points, having the blood tester and testing it on NPC's only for them to change a few minutes later is annoying, as much as you try to save perhaps 3 NPC's you cant :/, you cant save NPC's to next round unless they are needed. the death system on the Things is inacurrate, you can basically shoot em to red, use the flamer and nothing!, you have to shoot em for a lengthy time in red before you can flame em and watch em die. the trust system is great, you have to learn that some characters dont like to be around dead bodies and move them away else they'll crack, and you dont want your NPC's puttin' holes in their own head lol. one disappointment is it felt like i was playing a half life at times, due to the storyline.

Erboz	posted - Sep, 10 2002 - 03:26
I got so bored from it after only 10 minutes, that I trashed it.

CliffZ	posted - Sep, 10 2002 - 17:17
yep bored me senseless after a few minutes back to civilisation and MOH I go ;)

eBwoy	posted - Sep, 10 2002 - 19:40
Good game - but having to press a poxy key to go into 'looking around up and down mode' is shite. Why can't I just look around freely without ponsing about, like other 3D games - kinda spoils it for me.

Me	posted - Sep, 10 2002 - 21:42
The problem that I have with the game is the 0 replayability. After you finish it there's nothing else to do, no different modes or chalenges.

Lard Ass	posted - Sep, 11 2002 - 00:27
kiss u read my mind ! thats the problem with single player games once the story ends its DEAD ! As for multiplayer games it brings new life to the single player game , just look at HALF LIFE ! WTF its been going for YEARS !!!!

chris

posted - Sep, 11 2002 - 05:47

This thing was buggier than a cheap motel in Boca Raton. I had the infamous heartbeats during cutscenes, and that alone made it unplayable. A story-line driven game when the story fails is just a crappy game. The interface is horrid, the shooting was poor at best, and the list goes on. I have no idea why exactly they developed and coded the game the way they did, as all the machines this game was coded for support a movement and a free-look controllers indepentantly of each other. This game is so bad that for only the sedcond time in my life, I took advantage of the ability to return a game for dissatisfaction.

Doink

posted - Sep, 11 2002 - 08:15

I can't see why games like this get so much bad critique (based on what I hear here I presume it'll get somewhat bad reviews too) here when crap games like Tomb Raider are loved, especially since I really like (still not made it) this game and games of it sort. If you have a job with a fair salary, you can chuck up the money for a game like this despite it's lack of replayability, otherwise all games we'll see in the future will be multiplayer online shooter/rpg games.

RedVento	posted - Sep, 13 2002 - 19:28
All infections are scripted.. zero replay value, extremely short, can't look up or down in free mode, or can't move in 1st person mode. last half of the game is a Half-Life clone.. yea great game.

Piranha

posted - Oct, 22 2002 - 16:54

Wow I don't know why so many of you don't like this game. I think its awsome. The AI is great (except at sometimes they are stupid). There are so many details to this game like fear, and interacting with your allies. I think the awsome part is not being able to trust your own team-mates becuase they may be infected so they could turn on you at any second. That makes the game interesting at all times. Another thing I don't like is the weapon selection isen't real big but the weapons you do get are awsome! One of the first games you acctually get to use the auto-shotty. I would recommend that they have a Colt of some sort like a M-16 or M4A1. Well with all the bad compared to the good. Its a fricken awsome game!!

TripleX	posted - Dec, 13 2002 - 19:30
It's a cool game i like the horror genre.I fink they should creat a second chapter of the.

liljegren	posted - Feb, 03 2003 - 16:02
How do you defet the 3 boss??

graffix780	posted - Feb, 11 2003 - 19:56
liljegren you have to use the fireextinguisher freeze him then blow him up with a grenade.

kiwi	posted - Jul, 07 2003 - 08:51
or you can just run to the middle of da room (where da boss cant hit u) and just shoot him, and kill him off finally by burning da floor around him wif da flamethrower.there u go.

Maniac	posted - Oct, 22 2003 - 05:44
I would just like to point out that there is a patch for freelook in thirdperson, so you don't have to put up with the console style autoaim

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