The Thing

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 with a sniper rifle from the balcony, got it to chase me, created a barrier of fire so that it had to go around the room to get me, fire at it with a shotgun for a while, then go down the stairs and finish it off with a machine gun. THEN, I had to lead it into a room, run around the table, close the door, wait a second, open the door and toss a few grenades in it. THEN I had to get it with a flame thrower. Took me maybe a day for that one.

The Thing is, however, an acquired taste. You can't expect to be immediately addicted. Takes plenty of time.

One more thing: Don't play it at night. I made that mistake and was walking along looking at a dead body, until the head exploded and a spider "thing" jumped out at my face. I almost filled my shorts.

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 outside (where there may not be any danger) or just use drugs.

Your T.M's may get infected along the way but most don't say, as then they need to be killed, soon enough the monster within them unleashes and eats them, then they turn on you. SOme are brave and will shoot themselves. Interesting hey.

The atmosphere is really creepy looking and you may jump up from your seat sometimes as the shocking parts will get you. Weapons are cool, along with some handy gadgets. While you are playing the story kind of unravels.

The game has been constructed beautifly and is a great game, though if your one of those gamers where you like to play games after you have finished this is not the game, as it does not have good replay value, also you can't choose your levels, if you want a game just for a quick rental, then I suggest this game. Rent before you buy as some will like this game while others won't.

THE BAD:
extremaly hard game

SUMMARY:
bolaks

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 a vat of butter, this game isn't even fit enough to grace the Spectrum let alone the PS2.

"So what about the good bits?" you must be asking. Well, if the truth be told, you'll be hard pressed to find anything that even comes close to stimulating the joy cells in your brain. Fiddly actions, jerky movements, badly designed inventory layout, and a bug-ridden trust/fear engine, are but a few things that add to the frustrations of playing a game which promises so much but, infact, delivers nothing at all. The most bizarre aspect of this game comes in the form of bloodtesting team members to determine whether or not they have been infected by the alien gene. Samples that show up as negative will, more often than not, prove incorrect as the donator will simply mutate before your eyes and proceed to chew on your jugular vein. This leaves you wondering why on earth bloodtesting kits were included in the game to begin with if they don't even serve their purpose.

Gamers, especially those who are fans of the original motion picture, will be truly disappointed with the effort (or lack of) that Konami have put into 'The Thing' and should avoid it as they would a blood sucking extraterrestrial. The game will not only spoil your illusion of the film, but will also freeze your brain faster than an Antarctic chill ever could. As for its '15' age certificate, this game couldn't even scare a pre-pubescent child let alone a teenager. So please, for your own sanity, heed the warning and DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. If you are unlucky enough to receive a copy as a present, BURN IT and bury the evidence in a very deep hole so that it will never see the light of day again.

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 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 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 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 that because the monster can take on any form no one trusts anyone else. Now I have to admit that I was initially disappointed in this regard because as the game started it seemed like everyone trusted me and everyone in my squad was a thing. Thankfully though this is limited to just the early levels and as you move through the game you meet people who don't know your character and so have a lot less trust in you. At one point after I took a gun from a soldier, he panicked and killed himself. I have to admit that I was more than a little surprised by this so from then on I started taking their feelings into consideration which added a whole new dimension to the gameplay. That was fine but I still had no idea which characters to treat well. I did realize that some of these people were human but because of the shortage of blood tests there was no way of knowing who. Sometimes I would even start trusting certain teammates which made me feel genuinely disappointed when one of them morphed into a thing as soon as I turned my back. This is all good news but of course the danger in this is if the game relies on this gimmick alone, but since I've already told you how fantastic the game is then you know that this is not the case.

So how exactly does 'The Thing' play? That's the question that you must all be wanting answered and it's important to answer because this is not the resident evil clone that we were all expecting. There's no dodgy camera angles, plenty of ammo and not a monster in every room. I know that this doesn't sound like a survival horror but what they've done with 'The Thing' is to build an all new form of survival horror by being influenced by movies like 'Aliens' where there will be a dead silence, before all out mayhem and thousands of creatures start attacking from all directions. This new form really helps to build the tension as after an attack you desperately search for fresh ammo, and a save point before the next attack happens. It may not sound anything like the films style, but like I said the film wasn't really suitable for a game. Anyway 'Aliens' was nothing like 'Alien' but everyone welcomed the changes in that as you should here. 'The Thing's' new style works really well and it is definitely the best action game on the market.