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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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Jae wrote:
> I thought The Thing was meant to be a rubbish game from reviews that
> I've read but I'm quite tempted to get it now. :)
what reviews were you reading? Everyone I've seen has given it at least 8 out of 10.
> I thought The Thing was meant to be a rubbish game from reviews that
> I've read but I'm quite tempted to get it now. :)
what reviews were you reading? Everyone I've seen has given it at least 8 out of 10.
I thought The Thing was meant to be a rubbish game from reviews that I've read but I'm quite tempted to get it now. :)
Just finished it.
Amazing game.
will only set you back the smallest note if you know where to look.
Amazing game.
will only set you back the smallest note if you know where to look.
This game did sound really mint. But 'cos it's set just after the events of the movie, which I haven't seen, I was put off getting it.
That'll teach you then! Next time burn his face off, see how he likes the flamethrower after that.
Weird. This guy turned up in my squad out of the blue, I gave him my flame thrower and the next level he was gone - WITH MY FLAMETHROWER!! The only thing that can kill big versions of the thing.
Have to replay 2 levels now.
Madness. :D
Have to replay 2 levels now.
Madness. :D
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO breath OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO breath OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO breath OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :(
Movie people get 'em back and make an Aliens game!
PROBLEM: You have typed more most of your post in CAPITAL letters. Some people find this discourteous, as it gives the impression you are shouting, and is not allowed on these forums.
AGH!
Movie people get 'em back and make an Aliens game!
PROBLEM: You have typed more most of your post in CAPITAL letters. Some people find this discourteous, as it gives the impression you are shouting, and is not allowed on these forums.
AGH!
Yup, unfortunately the developers who made it have folded :(
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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