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A shocking, chilling game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: August 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was lucky enough to come across an early beta of this game, and I'm glad I did. The Thing game, by Computer Artworks (makers of the acclaimed organic-action game 'Evolva') was made for consoles, and you can tell (no mouselook, you 'lock on' to targets, etc.) but that doesn't mean it doesn't control well on the PC.

Be forewarned before you play. This game contains all manners of highly explicit gore, entrails; disemboweled, decapitate, AMPUTED corpses lie everywhere around the Antarctic stronghold which you explore. This game is also, I think, the second game in history of gaming to have the characters saying F-words, scatalogical terms, religious exlamations, etc. A bold step.

The graphics are very well done, and the game runs fluidly on my Celeron 800 MHZ processor, 256 megs of RAM, and a GeForce 3 Ti200 video card. The game, obviously, is an action game, you command a small squad of people. Anyone can be a Thing, and you must blood-test your "friends" to see if they are who they say they are. If they do turn into fully grown Things, and you don't have a flamethrower on hand (the only weapon that can fully kill a full-grown Thing), you're screwed. If you protect your teammates, it will minimize their chances of turning into a Thing, but in some circumstances it is inevitable.

As I said before, this game is dripping in blood, gore and swears so this isn't for the young'ns :). But, if you're older than 17 and have nerves of steel, have fun! ...wetting yourself.

I Don't think it's as bad as people say.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 06, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok. A lot of people say its horrible. They can't look, its boring, whatever. The point is, this game was not made to be the best in gameplay. It was to be the most suspenseful and chilling game yet. If you liked Half-Life for its puzzles, plot, and sense of mystery, You'll probably like this game. As for lokking around, If you simply aim you can lokk well enough, and besides, You can take in enough with a few glances, which may be all you have time for with the possibility of ambush at anytime. I read a review in which someone complained about the fact that the rifle didn't shoot straight. Let me put it this way, The first time I see someone accuratly fire a rifle in one hand at moving targets in a life or death situation with his heart throbbing,I'll pay that guy $20. If you find it boring, There's nothing to be done, Some people like sensless slaughter found in deathmatches while others like games with an actual plot.

The Thing PC Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I would get to the last boss and fill him full of holes,But then I would get a runtime error message and my screen would go black forever. The game would lockup so I couldn't see the final results with the ending movie so I didn't know if I beat the game or not. I thought my computer was messed up and told my Dad. We went to the website and found some patches listed. With the 1.1 patch installed I was able to end the game and see the result. With the 1.2 patch the mouse look option let me look around alot better and control the flamethrower and not get myself cooked by shooting the ground all the time. It's a really cool game without patches though. This made it better. I just didnt like not knowing if I finished or not. The patches were the answer. Now it's perfect. Get the patches from the Website thethinggames.com like I did and no excuses.

A New Level of Fear!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one seriously good game. The AI and special lighting effects along with excellent audio create a spine-chilling atmosphere. You can trust no one in this game. Everyone is a potential target, a potential "Thing". Go out and buy it!!!

A great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm a gamer from india, i bought The Thing a week back and i never got disappointed, like what happened for half life.
Game play is great, u get nevrvous some times and even sometimes scared , graphics is really inspiring!!!.
The negetive part of the game is, u lose your life when u cross your team mate fighting with the thing, the story is not so good and objectives are not very clear.
overall u wont be disappointed with THE THING.

A great PC game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What....this game is what?! true you have to get used to the computer controls but you can play this game on any PC.
Provided it has a high enough processor of course.
I played this after going to my sister's house; I played it on her Play Station. It was fun but I actually liked it better on the PC. yes the game does get challenging(don't they all?) and i had to play some parts over and over but on my PC it kicked!
I love this game the other reviews are just negative perhaps they are used to Play Stations or whatever. This game rocks it is a good challenge whether on PC or Play Station.

So good, it's HORRIFIC!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

One of the best movie to game conversions. Good graphics, sound and handling. Tension and fear is included in this game! This game is as well great for people who didn't see the movie.

Pretty cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I want to clear one thing up, the movie is not about some virus that causes it's victims to slowly mutate. There is no virus or disease what-so-ever. "THE THING" is an alien that eats or digests (or something) it's victims first, however, each part of the thing, down to the cellular level is an individual animal, so this alien, will then assume the form of it's victim, whether it be a human or animal, and act just like it's victim. It can then get more victims, however, this doesn't mean that the alien no longer imitates it's original victim and only imitates it's newest victim, but rather, both victims are now perfect imitations of their former selves. So it sorta multiplies with each victim.

Alright, with that out of the way, I will get into the gameplay. I think the reason a lot of people are unhappy with "THE THING" is because they expected a first person shooter. This game was _never_ intended to be part of that overdone genre. It comes from the mainly console genre of "survival horror". Think more in terms of "Resident Evil" and you begin to get the idea. Unlike the original Resident Evil, the whole game is real time 3D instead of 3D characters on pre-rendered backgrounds. You can look around with the aim feature, and I personally feels it works well enough, and generally you really don't need to really look around that often.

It is a bit annoying that you can't jump. It feels odd and out of place, knee high obstructions can stop you, but this is due to it's Survival Horror roots. That's an explanation, not an excuse, I think the game should have included jumping but this does not ruin the game.

How correct is it in terms to relating to the movie? I haven't gotten all the way through but I'd say it's pretty correct. It's not 100%, they put more stuff to shoot at in the game than was in the movie, but this is a game, not a movie, less things to shoot at makes a boring game and I feel it does _not_ detract from the game in terms of a movie translation.

I play this game with my friends around and we take turns because it's also fun to watch. It made all 3 of us jump more than once (including those just watching), and is a pretty good game overall. Ever got that creeped out feeling while playing Resident Evil? THE THING will give you that same feeling, just far more of it, this is the best and most creepy Survival Horror game I've had the pleasure of playing.

I will say thet the flame thrower could be better, it appears to aim down too much, and doesn't have enough range, how about something like RTCW? Though RTCW's range and power may not suit THE THING's enviroments.

If I had not seen the movie, I wouldn't like this game as much, though I still would like it, and I would still recommend it. The game has it's flaws, it's not perfect, but I'd say it's pretty darn fun, ESPECIALLY if you love the movie, I am very happy to see such a great movie that died in the box office immaturely due to unfair (and just plain foolish) reviews reborn in such a great game.

the best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: August 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

to who it may concern when i saw this game i said i got to have it because it looks good and fun thats why i said i want to buy it i love the way it was made and its looks good as soon AS i get it iam going to play until i bet the game haha

awsome game this is

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The other day,which was 6 days ago I was watching the sci-fi channal and the commercials came on the first one was about sam adams new light beer which was pretty stupid then this commercial
came on right in the begining it said rated m for mature then shows these guys jumping out of a heliacopter and run to this base I thought at first it was another aliens game because guys are shooting spider like thing out the window and this big red alien running around and the guy trying to kill it with a flamethrower and the leg with blood all around it was pretty cool looking. but what suprised me that the name of the game was
"the thing." it tooked after my favorite movie way cool it contuies right after the movie its the thing 2, the game.
this was the kind of game i had to have. i have 10 computer games , red faction, predators vrs. aliens 2, and many more but this game is the best beats all of them.

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