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This has been sitting on my shelf for about a year.
If I'd known this was as brilliant I'd have played it long ago! Picked it up on a quiet recommendation from a few friends.
It's like a Sci-Fi version of C:DS (you only play as one character but you can have 4/5 in a team) crossed with somesort of fantastic Aliens game! The twists the game has taken are fantastic and unexpected, It's great working in constantly changing teams trying to defeat The Thing creatures especially when one or more of your team could suddenly turn into one of the rampaging creatures!
The atmosphere of the game is absolutely perfect they've captured the best elements of classic action movies without being cliched, some of the characters you're genuinely sorry to part company with, one level has you without a gun relying on your AI buddies, who you have to rescue first, (The AI is superb by the way!) and you have to outwit the creatures leading them into and trapping them in rooms. The situations the game puts you in are so much fun to deal with, all hell breaks loose on a regular basis but it's a vastly different approach to the last time all hell broke loose in the game.
Fresh, innovative and SO MUCH BLOODY FUN IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!
Highly HIGHLY recommended. :)
If I'd known this was as brilliant I'd have played it long ago! Picked it up on a quiet recommendation from a few friends.
It's like a Sci-Fi version of C:DS (you only play as one character but you can have 4/5 in a team) crossed with somesort of fantastic Aliens game! The twists the game has taken are fantastic and unexpected, It's great working in constantly changing teams trying to defeat The Thing creatures especially when one or more of your team could suddenly turn into one of the rampaging creatures!
The atmosphere of the game is absolutely perfect they've captured the best elements of classic action movies without being cliched, some of the characters you're genuinely sorry to part company with, one level has you without a gun relying on your AI buddies, who you have to rescue first, (The AI is superb by the way!) and you have to outwit the creatures leading them into and trapping them in rooms. The situations the game puts you in are so much fun to deal with, all hell breaks loose on a regular basis but it's a vastly different approach to the last time all hell broke loose in the game.
Fresh, innovative and SO MUCH BLOODY FUN IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!
Highly HIGHLY recommended. :)
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Got to the first boss. Unfortunately I have sod all health so one swipe and I'm dead. Tried it a few times and got wasted, doesn't seem too hard though.
I suppose the big difference between this and the film is the fact that in the film, The Thing made a point of 'hiding' inside imitations, only showing itself when it knew it could take over someone else. In the game, you have Things running all over the place in various grotesque guises. But perhaps it wouldn't be half as much fun if the base was just populated with hundreds of 'people'.
I suppose the big difference between this and the film is the fact that in the film, The Thing made a point of 'hiding' inside imitations, only showing itself when it knew it could take over someone else. In the game, you have Things running all over the place in various grotesque guises. But perhaps it wouldn't be half as much fun if the base was just populated with hundreds of 'people'.
Yep, the film was based on my previous life as an amorphous alien blob.
Oh hang on that was Bell's previous life. :S
'Previous'
Oh hang on that was Bell's previous life. :S
'Previous'
way before you say?
Yeah I own the movie, had it way before the game and saw it way before I owned it.
Classic stuff.
Classic stuff.
Well, been playing it for about an hour and a half. So far .... fecking fantastic.
I'm really not that sure they've captured the paranoia and claustrophobia of the film - the best thing about The Thing was the psychological element and the whole mood of paranoia and despair. I think this game feels much more akin to an Aliens film.
That said it's excellent - the action is top notch, the AI is great and on more than one occasion I've metaphorically shat myself, as I open a door to be greeted by a blood curdling screech and some huge disfigured mess lumbering towards me. Definitely one game I'll be playing all the way to the end.
On a sidenote, have you seen the film? One of the all time classics - that bit where one of the guys is sat in his office, working on his computer and a dark figure creeps past - that's one of the most pant filling moments in cinema.
I'm really not that sure they've captured the paranoia and claustrophobia of the film - the best thing about The Thing was the psychological element and the whole mood of paranoia and despair. I think this game feels much more akin to an Aliens film.
That said it's excellent - the action is top notch, the AI is great and on more than one occasion I've metaphorically shat myself, as I open a door to be greeted by a blood curdling screech and some huge disfigured mess lumbering towards me. Definitely one game I'll be playing all the way to the end.
On a sidenote, have you seen the film? One of the all time classics - that bit where one of the guys is sat in his office, working on his computer and a dark figure creeps past - that's one of the most pant filling moments in cinema.
i might look into getting it.
Nice one. :)
This really is one of those overlooked greats.
This really is one of those overlooked greats.
Headphicks!
Just ordered this game on your recommendation. Complete with a free copy of Equilibrium.
Ho yes.
Just ordered this game on your recommendation. Complete with a free copy of Equilibrium.
Ho yes.
The film was class.
"I don't know what's in there, but it's weird and p!ssed off whatever it is .... get the flamethrower ..."
"I don't know what's in there, but it's weird and p!ssed off whatever it is .... get the flamethrower ..."
Very cheap now too. :)
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