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this game bites
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 1 / 4
Date: December 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I'm gonna get right to the point with this one. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PIECE OF JUNK! The plot is horrible, the gameplay is immensely dull and the graphics are 2nd rate at best. This game makes a mockery of th John Carpenter classic. You will be ready to hurl your controller through the TV after you try to kill a larger alien with fire (which is the ONLY way to kill them) and run out of fuel and die a horrible grisly demise or light a fuel barrl on fire and die a horrible grisly demise 100... times in a row. Just don't even bother with this pathetic excuse for a game.
What is going on????
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User
I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST BEAT THE GAME!!!! I'M BACK TO TELL YOU THAT THIS GAME IS SO UPSETTING ON SO MANY LEVELS. IT IS WAY TO HARD FOR THE AVERAGE GAMER AND THE ENDING IS TERRIBLE COMPARED TO DEVIL MAY CRY, VICE CITY, THE GETAWAY, MOH, EVEN HITMAN 2 HAD A BETTER PAYOFF AT THE END!!! GO BUY SOCOM AND AVOID THE THING!!!!! OK, for the hardcore gamer, this game will probably rock for them. But what the heck is going on???? After 20 minutes in the beginning, I had no clue what I should be doing. Right to the internet to do some walkthrough downloading (there's only one for the PS2 and it's practically useless!). Anyway, halfway through the game, I'm getting killed ALL THE TIME!!! And I have it on the easy setting. OK, so now I'm stuck with like zero life and can't for the life of me figure out how to kill two walkers and get to the life packs only 10 yards away, the walkthrough is no help, there are no life cheats, and after like I don't know, maybe 80 tries, I finally figure it out. Now I'm on the 3rd to last mission, I have tons of ammo, tons of life packs, and even a medic to help me out - and I'm stuck again!!! The save points are absolutely in the most stupid places. I can save a half-dozen times on one level when I'm never in trouble, but on my current level, I have to fight through a walker, a billion little monsters, a half-dozen soldiers, machine gun nests, and another walker to get to the next save point - and did I mention that I have tons of ammo, plenty of life and a medic, and I'm still getting killed!!! AND IT'S ON THE EASY LEVEL!?!? I've played enough of these games to know when the developers messed up bad. Yes, this game has great graphics. Yes, this game has a great story. Yes, I like the controls. But why do the developers take a great game, and deny the average gamer an oppty to just play a laid back game with a minimal amount of adversity??? I don't mind dying every now and then till I figure out the trick, but to die repeatedly (and with no save point to minimize the number of times you have to repeat the same stupid tasks over and over again), well over 20 times, with no idea of what I need to do to get by this level is just stupid!!! If they are going to make it hard, give me the darn MAX AMMO and MAX HEALTH cheats so I can get through when I cry UNCLE!!! It's because of how great everything else is that I keep coming back, ...
i just didn't feel it
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 1 / 7
Date: November 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User
i don't have a lot to say except that the game is frustrating and dark.
i know this is not helpful but i just wanted to express myself.
hard game short ending
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 12
Date: December 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User
funny battle.
one AI team mate dead on the ground with his head blow off
AI team mate two running a round on fire
30 + small thing running a round
2 big thing running a round
me dead on the ground from crossfire from AI team mate two shotgun
Awesome and Recomended!
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 1 / 13
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This game is awesome and recomended so do yourself a favor and buy it all-ready. If you don't I will be mad, because you will eventually be mad to.
This game Bllows
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 2 / 46
Date: September 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User
This game is real relistic not actualy im just saying that so youll buy this game blows
THE THING is nothing more than an assimilation!
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 0 / 5
Date: September 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I love the movie The Thing. Hey, it's not high art and I realize that, but what it does it does well. The game on the other hand is nothing more than a...repackaging of other games. Like The Thing itself, this game has simply assimilated games like Epidemic, etc. and cleverly sweetened the deal with a thin layer of frosting provided by the popularity of the film. The character names, alien designs, and storyline are the tried and true variety of point a to point b shoot'em up'ers with little else. Hey, is it just me or do the graphics in this game seem totally lame and derivative of much older PS1 platform stuff? Take my advice, spend the money on (A) The DVD version of the movie and (B) postage stamps, so you can start a grass roots letter writing campaign to stop John Carpenter who I fear may be thinking about a sequel. I hope and pray that I am wrong and this game is not a prelude to a sequel. Please GOD, not another Escape from LA...stop the madness!
Joe's Summary
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 3
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User
i saw this game that night on sci-fi. it looked very cool and intresting. So i bought it and here is my summary.
1. I get the "Disc Read Error" sometimes when trying to get it going.
2. IT IS EXTREAMLY TOO HARD! im at the first encounter with "The Thing" Im low on health, AND IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET PAST HIM!
3. blood test kits are useless. I would blood test one of my members, then he walks about 10 steps and then he transforms!
4. The enemys that need to be burned to kill are too much trouble! riddle them with bullets until the redical turns red, then switch the weapon and burn him 1 time, he runs, he runs, and he runs again. finaly he decides to stop being a coward and attack me. i take damage, then i kill him. TOO MUCH WORK FOR 1 ENEMY!
5. NOT ENOUGH HEALTH PACKS! I RARELY SEE THEM!
overall, if you are REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALY careful and you watch your enemys movements, you might get further then i do. but one thing for sure. Expect to be repeating some lvls more then twice
Faulty piece of ...
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 0 / 11
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User
I rented the Thing thinking it would be awesome. I liked it first time. Then i saw the flaw. It was like a ... Jackie Chan movie. The characters mouths would move but nothing would come out. 5 seconds later they would start talking and they couldn't finish.Example The black guy in the first level Said Chik-Chik(the gun), I'm locked cocked and ready to make ... dead. in the one i got his mouth started moving nothing would come out then 5 seconds later Chik-Chik i'm locked cocked and ready to make ...-and then it just cut away. Thats what it did with the ...medic in the first level also.
Very Disappointing
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 9
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User
While I am a big fan of horror games, I found this game very disappointing, first of all because the gameplay was horrible. The graphics were good, but not as great as they can go. In the beggining you are just running around in the snow? How stupid can this game get? My brother and I quickly returned this dumb game to Blockbuster where we found it.
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