The Thing

THE GOOD:
Interesting plot premise, exciting battle system.

THE BAD:
Difficulty in exploration, lack of information on how to complete missions.

SUMMARY:
Anyone could be an alien.
Could be the guy in the next room, or the one standing next to you.
Or it could be YOU!
Just kidding... OR AM I?

Seriously though, The Thing had some great promise, but suffers from a few serious flaws.

To comment on the more positive aspects first, I will say that the premise of the movie was a great idea to translate to video game format.
You must be vigilant, and work to gain the trust of your squad members and that of the strangers you meet along the way, because they're just as paranoid as you are.
You can earn this trust by healing them, giving them weapons, or performing blood tests on yourself in front of them to prove you're not an alien.
You must be prepared, however, that all...

THE GOOD:
-Great storyline
-Time comsuming
-Definitely takes you out of the real world
-Requires 100% strategy

THE BAD:
-Irritating at times
-Very jumpy
-Exceptionally hard

SUMMARY:
I loved this movie from 1982. Loved it. Kurt Russel was the man. So when I saw it for 9 bucks at movie gallery, I had to pick it up. (I actually broke my commitment with myself to only buy a game when I beat the last one ).

At first I was just confused; I had to pay attention to fear and trust, and once I started to act funny, my characters started yelling at me. Very realistic. Once I got the hang of the easy stuff, I started to realize how hard the game was. It takes a ton of strategy and you can't just shoot your way through. You must develop a very good system. For example, the only way I could beat one "thing" was if I fired at it...

THE GOOD:
~Your interesting team members (T.M)
~Check up on T.M's emotions
~The graphics
~The atmosphere

THE BAD:
~Replay value
~Can't choose levels, unless you make a save in a different slot each time, (confusing)

SUMMARY:
Now this should be a game to get for your PS2, as it is a very intellegent game. At first I had never heard of the movie, it looked like an interesting game so I hired it out, and yes it was quite interesting, more than I thought, though it's not the most action pact game out there.

The Thing's story line is like the movie's, not much to it, but lots of killing and blood, that's all I'm saying. Your T.M's have an emotional state where you can check up on all the time, if you go into somewhere really creepy and dark and most of your T.M's have died, well most likely your T.M's will lose it and start shooting around the place, if you want to cool them off you can take them...

Here is a game that was from a movie that came out in 1982 and made only a little over 3 million in the theatres. Yet it's a cult classic for horror fans. Another little trivia fact about the film. If you have seen the movie you should realize that there are no women in the entire movie. The closest thing to a woman is the voice on the computer when MacReady is playing chess.

As for the game, it takes place right after the movie ended. Which I loved, since you get to see the area where the men were at and you even get to see a few familiar faces! The Creatures in the game are just like they were in the movie. It's amazing how much detail was given for this game. John Carpenter must have been proud.

Since this is of course a horror game, it has plenty of blood, gore, and swearing. There were a few scenes where I looked on in disbelief. Thinking to myself "Did I just see that right?" Without ruining the scenes, let's just say that it was pretty graphic....

THE GOOD:
good grahics

THE BAD:
extremaly hard game

SUMMARY:
bolaks

THE GOOD:
Absolutely nothing.

THE BAD:
Absolutely everything.

SUMMARY:
'The Thing' is quite possibly nay, definitely the worst game I have EVER had the misfortune to play and, believe me, I've played some absolute shockers in my time. When the game eventually loads (after waiting a few light years for it to do so that is), you won't know whether to laugh or cry.....although crying is advisable if you've just wasted £40 on a game that, quite frankly, is as much fun as poking your eye out with a rusty tent peg. How this game ever made it past quarantine, let alone onto the shelves, really is beyond comprehension, but it just goes to show that miracles can and do actually happen!!

By today's standards, 'The Thing' looks and plays like it's been programmed by a team of paralytic chimps on a weekend bender. With graphics no better than a 16th Century flickbook and controls similar to that of an F1 car in...

THE GOOD:
NOTHING

THE BAD:
EVERYTHING

SUMMARY:
This game could've been great but somewhere it just went wrong. The controls are terrible and it is just way to hard. Dont buy. If you want a similar game, buy Socom: Navy Seals. If your really desprete for this kind of game, wait till it gets cheaper or buy it on Ebay. This game tries way to hard to be like Navy Seals. Please dont waste your money.

THE GOOD:
pretty much everything.

THE BAD:
the cameras are a little funky sometimes

SUMMARY:
'the thing' is probably one of my all time favorite games ever because it has a realness to it that most games lack quite a bit. one of the main factors that makes it real is your team mates actually freak out and shit (i thought it was hilarious the first time i saw one of them barfing because there was a corpse right in front of him lol). i personally think the graphics kick ass and i think its weird that people's expectations for good graphics keep getting bigger and bigger because i still compare graphics to old super nintendo games so i dont know i think they're amazing but wutever. i also think the things are scary as hell when they come after you lol.

THE GOOD:
Good athmospheric View and a good sound system.

THE BAD:
graphics, not that good looking but it was OK.

SUMMARY:
The thing is heavy and cool, talk about horror games like silent hill 2, resident evil and alien triology. i think this game rocks and kicks ass. they good aspects of this game is the enemies A.I and their capability to transform into "things" (Zombies)at any time , which scares the hell out of "The thing" fans.

you might be walking with someone during the game and later on that person will decide to transforms into something unimaginable, reviling the persons real ID. which i find suprising.

Cool story line and so much fun.

THE GOOD:
graphics, camera style, control, keeps the films mistrust

THE BAD:
different style to film,

SUMMARY:
'The Thing' is one of my favorite movies ever, so I was naturally cautious when I heard the news that they were going to make it into a video game. After all history has not left much promise in this regard with most film licences being horrible rush jobs, and this films style wasn't exactly the most video game friendly. However the more I looked into the game the better it started to look, and when it was released to very good reviews I decided to give it a try. What can I say but even next to the films high standards 'The Thing' turns out to be a fantastic game.

This is all down to 2 area's, the first being the games big selling point, the trust fear gauge which as anyone who has been looking into the game will know is the way in which you have to work with different people in a team, and...