The Thing Game Review: Fun (If Flawed) Horror
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- They're not Swedish, Mac. They're Norwegian. That said, The Thing from 2002 is a great game adaptation of the film.
The Thing game from 2002 is a fun little action horror romp. It captures the spirit of the film, although some of the execution is spotty.
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The developers of The Thing had high ambitions of building a trust and infection system that did the film justice. That said, due to execution and technical limitations, they're not able to stick the landing.
As well, some stretches in The Thing can drive you up the wall and make you want to toss your J&B scotch at your computer.
Overall, The Thing is an enjoyable experience that any fan of the film should check out, rough edges and all.
Timestamps:
• 00:00 - Prelude
• 01:11 - Game Intro
• 04:47 - Gameplay of The Thing
• 13:23 - Going Through The Game & Story (Spoilers)
• 19:54 - In Conclusion With Thoughts On Another Game
Additional Footage:
• Among Us
• Conversations with Curtis
• Cryostatis
• Halo 2: • Arbiter's Halo 2 Anniv...
• John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
• Mass Effect 2: • Mass Effect 2 Legendar...
• Nostalgia Critic
• Resident Evil 5 - • Resident Evil 5 - Wesk...
• Saliva - Click Click Boom
• The Spoony Experiment
• The Thing (1982)
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I got that game for free from PC magazine in Poland , I am fan of movie and I have tried to play game , but I have gave up , I lost interest in game , I think Mass Effect was out , so The Thing had no chance .
Boulder Punch Loses His Friends and Becomes Sad in The Thing.
Nice Jerma reference
My favorite rendition of the thingy
The Thing Face
Chris has one hell of a right hand
On the note of Carpenter's interest in video games, he's said multiple times that he would love to direct a Dead Space film. It would be pretty funny if he got the chance considering how the necromorphs were directly inspired by The Thing
Oh god I hope he gets the ability to direct Dead Space movie. It's such a great concept in general and a movie is such a happy possibility and Carpenter would be legit perfect
Would be cool if he got the chance, especially since we sadly never got George Romero's Resident Evil film.
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Yeah.. not so sure Papa Romero would have made anything better than what we got.
Holy shix, if John Carpenter with Dead Space???
@@BestCupid We have Dead Space movie at home. [points to Dead Space: Downfall]
5:58 “I’m locked, loaded, & ready to make sh*t DEAD!”
How has this not been meme-ified universally?
_"Who talks like that?!"_
-Spoony One (Noah Antwiler)
@@vee-bee-aThat quote lives rent free in my head and I love it lmao
I like how the first medic was randomly voiced by Liquid Snake.
*_"LIQUID!!!"_*
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Not random. Cam Clarke had a very diverse voice acting career back in the 90s and early 2000s. Also, this game on the consoles was co-published by Konami, so it doesn't surprise me.
Sidenote: I remember also hearing his voice as a narrator for random Travel channel documentaries/Tourism guides.
@@Johnnybomb1 this would've been a great comment! Seven months ago.
There actually was a comic for The Thing that had Childs survive and eventually become a thing later on. It's interesting that they decided to give a real canon end for him in this game. Better than what Alien Colonial Marines did with it's canon I guess.
Colonial Marines is better than its reputation. The level of detail in the movie locations is fantastic, & there are sections which do capture the ambiance & feel of the film. It is way better than Fire Team Elite for the simple reason it focuses on Cameron's film & not Ridley Hack's pretentious prequels, which that game has too much emphasis on. Fire Team Elite was actually more buggy than Colonial Marines ever was.
@@filmbuff2777too bad the game itself isn’t that great
The best part of this game is honestly the opening hour. Especially as a huge fan of the film, the tour of the aftermath was super spooky as a 14 year old when it released. The atmosphere is really well done until monsters start popping out absolutely constantly. Becomes more third person shooter and less atmospheric horror as it goes.
Making the Thing transformations into scripted events was the biggest dropped ball for the game.
@@bjchityes and np
You know something that I loved about the dialogue of this game? The stutters. The characters stutter like a person tripping over there words while trying to get a thought out while distracted. Its something thats not used well enough these days.
It makes the characters feel like they're living, breathing people rather than a bunch of cardboard cutouts by making them act like they actually GIVE A SHIT that they're trapped in the middle of Fuck All, Nowhere with a hostile alien organism that can absorb and imitate ANY of them
makes sense given they're out in the cold too
RIP Diabeetus guy
May you find all the insulin you need in the next life.
It’s one of the most unique direct sequels ever made for John Carpenter’s “The Thing”. Even the director himself confirmed this game to be cannon to his movie. Sad to see that a sequel to the game never came out, due to lack of sales.
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.
The game basically had the same issue as the movie, lol.
Lack of sales?i didn't know it sold badly.i was a decent game worth replsying more than once at the time because of its unique trust syste so im shocked it didnt sell well.
To be fair it's tough if not impossible to be on par with The Thing (1982)
I dont know, I'm pretty cool. I think I'm on par with The Thing (1982). And you don't even know me. So it's not really fair for you to say "it's tough if not impossible" as if you know everything. Flipp'n prick. :(
Like why do you list the year like as if there's some other movie called that there isn't
@@fmsynthesesthere was a the thing prequel also called the thing and movies based of the book before the 1982 movie
@@avilisseur He's joking, pretending the 2011 prequel doesn't exist because it messes up the original if considered canon and is generally not a very good movie.
@@fmsynthesesthe thing 1951
I remember being so terrified of playing this game when it first came out. I had only watched The Thing once on SciFi so with it being censored I wasn’t fully sure what to expect from the game. I still have my original copy of the Xbox version of The Thing and despite all its flaws I absolutely loved it. It does a very good job of making you feel that uneasy dread from the movie.
Our bar for horror games were really low back then. I mean, if games like Slenderman can make such a phenomenon anything during earlier times can.
Yep. This game really scared me as a kid. 😂 Now? I can't play any horror games as horror games, more like action or stealth. 😂
@@theotv5522 You're not wrong in a general sense, but considering slenderman came out long after the best of Silent Hill, I wouldn't say that the indie-horrors of the 2000s worked because the bar was still low.
12:50 Yesss! I still remember Spoony’s review from when I watched it years ago. That’s one reason I clicked fast on this video because I have never seen anyone else cover this game. I nearly died at the river dancing part and the continuous fuse box count on Spoony’s video.
"take this 9mm"
"hey, buddy!"
Grimbeard's covered it, along with a couple other games Spoony covered (IIRC Phantasmagoria 2 and Ring: Terror's Realm)
Love this game so much. Played the hell out of it on PS2. The combat could get frustrating but it was still a special experience.
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.
Combat was horrible in tight spaces especially when using flamethrower, an update would definitely fix alot of the technical issues to improve the overall gameplay
I seem to recall that someone made a very compelling argument that convinced me that Childs is likely meant to be infected (something to do with his jacket subtly going missing and reappearing torn up at a coat room, or something like that), and it should also be noted that the thing's goal at the end (after failing to leave) is to freeze 'to 'death' so it can be found later and resurrect... which Childs has done in this game. So I wouldn't be so sure it's answered anything... Unless I'm completely misremembering the movie that is anyway.
In the movie also, any of the survivors have a glow in their eyes while the ones who are now a thing do not. When you go back and watch it, only one of the men at the end have the glow in their eyes. One of my favorite movies.
New BoulderPunch video, and it's about The Thing. The day started to get better.
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.
Always will remember Jerma's experience with this game, a perfect encapsulation of the best and worst of it.
I think this game's ideas could be brought to modern day and work perfectly without the technical limitations it had.
18:13 the way i think youre supposed to deal with turrets is going into first person mode and peeking up and around cover, when you try to move in first person it physically makes you lean. this is a mechanic that's easily missed and not really explained but it helps a lot. Simply let off the stick when the turret is about to fire (i forgot keyboard controls)
I used to play a gmod gamemode called Morbus, that on some maps really captured the Thing feeling surprisingly well
This is my favorite horror game of all times, I've always wanted a remake with the same mechanics (only that more polished) and atmosphere of this game, feeling lost in a snowstorm at night knowing that there is huge monsters, and that you can't trust anyone is an amazing horror experience.
Pd: If the game goes semi open world that would be amazing to.
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.
@@jmgonzales7701 I am really tired of those style of games, especially when they aren't necessary, like Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters would be better with a story based solo or co-op experience with the amount of ideas & lore of the 2009 game. That Spirits Unleashed game got repetitive so quickly.
That game is a hidden gem...
An unique experience...
Buggy games with poorly implemented mechanics are a dime a dozen. Also being a sort of sequel that ruins something from the original source is not that uncommon. 😅
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And everyone has a different taste... 😏
@@SuperVidman101Who cares about bugs? As long as it is playable.
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Indeed.
I'd like to see a remake for this. One that actually implemented the anyone could be a thing mechanic. The Thing and Cold Fear deserve another chance.
Oh, since Volition is gone now? Remaster or remake The Punisher 2005 too.
Oh man. I still have a special place in my heart for Cold Fear.
Surprised we haven't got a The Thing game similar to Friday the 13th or Dead By Daylight yet.
They should make this game again with todays capabilities and graphics. Would be an amazing spooky experience
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.
@@jmgonzales7701 stop spamming the same irrelevant comment please
I had no idea a game based on "The thing" existed. A new generation game, focused not on shooting things but on the tension and fear of the unknown and the uncertainty of not knowing what is human and what isnt could be reaaaally cool.
I still remember the trailer for this game had you find MacReady's frozen body instead and no sign of Childs and voice lines saying that it was MacReady. Dunno if they did that as a deliberate mislead or if they changed their mind when they added MacReady to the finale and redid that early level before release. Still though no explanation of how MacReady escaped and showed up to help you though.
I really do feel like this game could do well as a full recreation. The whole fear/trust mechanic system is very intriguing, especially if it were more more fine tuned. In addition to the few preset people you just know are going to be infected, there could be more of a nuanced infection system that can effect other human survivors (friend or enemy). If not this game, then another game that uses the trust system.
the concept itself is still brilliant
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.
Had this on PS2 when I was 12, wasn't the easiest of games but back then I remember thinking this game was way ahead of its time with the way infection worked. Still amazed I completed it at that age
The voice actor you were referring to Liquid Snake is Cam Clarke
Like my dad always said you want a job done right you gotta do it yourself. Man I love this game growing up one of my favorites, and always thought it had such a cool game concept with your team and them being able to turn at random points however it didn’t turn out that way the tech was limited at the time and the team couldn’t pull off what was promised but I’d love to see this type of game mechanic done in a modern day game.
"This puts Child's fate to rest"....
No one tell him about the comics
True.
First part of the game is brilliant. Snowy weather, derelict station, lack of ammunition, it's all perfect.
I get genuinely excited when I open TH-cam and see you have a new video lol. Your content always helps me remember the passion and love I had for games that's kind of fizzled out recently.
3:42 😅 i recall another quote by john i heard recently. "Wtf does that do for me now?". It was, i think on RLM...just funny to hear what he feels about that all this time later.
5:50 I completely forgot Cam Clark was in this. Buddy is a legend in voice acting with a pretty great range and an interesting history.
Pretty sure the guy who plays The Smoking Man from X Files voices a character in it also.
Blows my mind we don't have a modern Thing game. Massive potential
Telltale would be a good studio (at least old Telltale. Time will tell if new Telltale is still good) to make another Thing game. I think their blend of choice-making and point-and-click would be a good formula for a game where everyone is a suspect.
Yeah that's a good idea. Something on the shorter side in terms of completion time but with a higher focus on variable outcomes to player choices would be cool.
I would be so happy if the game ever had a remaster or some company can pick up the game to create a sequel. Played this is a kid, and man I had a blast with it.
Hey BP, can you please do a video on Cold Fear, Ubisoft's old Resident Evil Clone, it's actually pretty good!
I would say that or Extermination
Yo thanks for the reccomendation i'm playing the game right now, seems pretty interesting!
Freaking loved this game as a kid. It's what got me into the survival horror
This was a great review man kudos from New Zealand.
A core childhood memory rediscovered and by one of my favorite youtubers , used to play this gem along side half life and hitman 2 silent assassin on my dad’s PC, thank you sooooo soooooo much 🥹❤️❤️
John Carpenter had a lot of negative experiences with the film industry back in the 80's iirc, so I imagine the video game industry in the early days was probably way more accepting/supportive.
I remember playing this game multiple times the replay value was surprisingly high, a game that definitely deserves a remake now that remakes are huge now.
I hope next year will be the year of Spoony too. His mental health back then was a wreck. I pray that he'll make a great comeback and be in a much better state of mind, which it seems he is. Good on him.
As for this game, maybe I should play the HD mod for this given its limited options to play them.
I remember hearing about this from Spoony. The thing that will always stick out to me in that video was an NPC (named Collins I think?) doing a Irish jig before turning into the Thing.
I remember that cold meter. Also someone always just randomly blurted out "This mission is bullshit!" lol
1:46 i screamed. "my mother is very proud"
Ayo, I remember this game. Shame it wasn’t fully as intended when it was released in terms of infected, trust, and somewhat of a weird twist to the story compared to the film.
I do wanted the thing 2 to be real but got cancelled where they claim they promised to bring features that they couldn’t add in the first. I still have this game on Xbox and PS2.
It always shocks my system when I watch this movie and Wilford Brimley doesn't have a mustache.
In my mind, he always has a mustache.
5:55 ah yes the *pump-action* MP5.
I somehow never played this game (even if The Thing is one of my favorite movies of all time) yet it feels so nostalgic as most games of that era.
I wish this game would get a remake or remaster.
This is a game in desperate need of a remake
Loved the game, loved the movies. Made winter blizzards one of my favorite entertainment settings.
Loved this back in the day 😮
Just replayed an old classic series I love, Lucius the other day. Would love to see a video on it
Me and my dad went to the theater last year to see the 40th anniversary screening of The Thing, best thing me and my dad ever done.
I really liked this game. I got it while it was still new-ish and although I'm sure a lot of the mechanics didn't age well, at the time they were really awesome. It had friendly AI that was actually competent in combat and could put in meaningful work against the enemy. They provided good utility but they also could live or die based on how you handled things. That wasn't really something you encountered back then. Graphics were solid, it ran well (had it on PC) and it was pretty spooky too!
Played this when it first came out and loved it. Crawling through vent shafts, getting jump scared with head crab things, almost crapping myself. Interesting to finally find out why it never got a sequel.
On Childs being infected, there are NO Clues either are at the end. John wanted the ending as ambiguous as possible, he only wanted the distrust and paranoia living to be the only sure thing at the end.
4:24 Missed opportunity to include Saint’s Row version of Kieth David
I still think the trust system in this game was revolutionary, and should be implemented in more single player games.
This was a bonafide hidden gem from the ps2 days... i was enthralled by this game and mechanics. Flawed but dope game
Great vid BP, but it could use a fuse counter😂.
I remember playing this game, i was quite young and i remember being disappointed in the scripted parts when the NPC turn. Just after i tested them too!
There was a certain part in that underwater research base, that i just couldn't make it through without assistance, so i downloaded a trainer. The results were freakin' hilarious.
If you turn on the invulnerability for your teammates, it freezes their health, but not their sanity.
So, as a result, they can still can get spooked to the point of being depressed, then suicidal.
And when they shoot themselves WHILE the invulnerability is on, the game doesn't know WTF is going on, so the afflicted NPC repeatedly shoots himself in the head, while is body flying through the corridors. It looks absolutely hilarious.
The suicide animation doesn't have enough time to play in its entirety, so it makes this TATATATATATATA sound like a machinegun being fired, while the dude's body is suspended in mid-air zipping through the entire level from walls to walls.
There were other glitches the trainer caused, but i don't remember what exactly those were.
I highly recommend it to anyone who already finished the game properly and wants to see more crazy shit. :-D
good review man
I remember going back and forth between this game on my Xbox, and Extraction on the PlayStation 2 I’d get from Blockbuster. What a time.
i hope spoony makes a comeback too
I am a simple man, I see The Thing content, I click instantly.
Love this game, replayed it many times and I'll always be sad they never got to finish the sequel before the studio closed.
I remember The Thing 1982 playing a lot on tv the week this came out with special looks at the game. It was great marketing.
I remember this game. What's the fuse box count again?
This game was tough and it had some great ideas, like guys getting spooked, freaking out, throwing up etc, very H P Lovecraft. The music and the sound effects were great. This could definitely do with a remake.
This deserves a remake.
It's a great game. It's high-time someone made a kickstarter for a sequel or a spiritual successor. It's been years of youtuber analyses that people have figured out this game was a gem with great ideas
Man, that blood test kid siphons off a can of beans worth of blood, lol.
The original film has always been in my top 3 horror films and I enjoyed this game as a weekend rental on PS2 back in the day... kinda scary how this game is as old now as the original film was when the game came out. Also the fact they positioned it as the official sequel to the film makes one of the most scuffed trilogies ever... The Thing (2011 prequel), The Thing (1982 original) and The Thing (2002 game), all with the same title lol.
The thing ( 1982 ) is not the original. It's a remake of thing from the 50s.
The guy just saw a half-finished alien ship while trying to investigate the destruction of the outpost and his reaction: “Yeah, yeah. I don’t know and I don’t care.” Not the finest option to investigate what happened…
I’m a huge fan of The Thing and bought it on the PS2 when it came out and I still own it to this day. It’s one of the games I play every year in October for the Halloween season. The paranoia system was a good idea even though it didn’t work that great, but still provided a neat experience. It was a far cry from the comics that came out after the movie.
I literally bought this game again on disc last year to play again because i had good memories of playing it! Was outdated a bit, but I still really enjoyed going through it again 👍🏻. Would love it if they remade it.
Loved this game and it led me to watch the movie which became one of my all time favorites.
I should really play this game one of these days...I still have a fully sealed ps2 copy of the game when it launched.
One of the few horror games I powered through as a kid.
I also played the game before I saw the film so it was like a cool piecing together of the mystery as I watched the movie the first time
if a remake ever happened that would build upon this and be open world that let you accomplish stuff in a non linear would be SOOO COOL and I would buy that
AAAAHH I loved this game growing up!
I remember on og box watching my older brother play this and I was terrified
John Carpenter is also on record though saying that he "won't tell us" whether Childs is infected or not, though. So who knows what's really canon.
I swear PS2 horror games are always the best era if you can look past dated graphics and put yourself in the shoes of the protagonist of any story from that era there is nothing like it.
Loved this game so much! But yeah one of my biggest issues was one of the things you brought up about the infection. Having survivors turn for no reason even though you just tested them and theres not even a story reason to explain it. Also a side note sometimes the characters going insane wouldnt lead to them just attacking you, it would trigger a transformation, which again just made no sense and really annoyed me. Amazing game and I really want to see it remastered or remade and fleshed out properly.
When they were making Dead Space 3 one of the original ideas was based off The Thing where Issac would be with a group of people in an arctic setting and they would slowly get picked off one by one
I played through this whole game without any textures because my dad's TNT 2 graphics card didn't have the right drivers for it, and patches were sill a novel concept in 2002. It may have also been because it was downloaded off of Limewire...
Guess you never saw the Spawn animated series. Keith David is a legend
I got so good at predicting when my teammates were gonna turn and killing them with no consequence that it completely eliminated any challenge from the basic gameplay. So the game got revenge by putting me against a mid-game boss that was impossible. Really just an annoying mess overall IMO.
Wish they would do a new multiplayer game using the license. With an Imposter/thing type of system.
I never was able to beat this the game was so rough to look at but I bet a quality remake would be huge.
I completed this game sooo many times I knew who would get infected & who doesn't & who is before seeing the survivors. Knowing this saves you alot of resources. 😂
Edit: It's never random, they only get infected if they been hit, keeping your distance with your sqaud helps. & yes, some are scripted.
Really wish the infection was randomised... And it was going to be
Have you ever heard of the Thing RPG? Some guy made a Thing RPG Maker game with a slow burn tone like the movie. I stumbled upon it randomly just this week. It may be the most obscure video game I've ever found, and it even has a sequel.
i wish more asymetric style multuplayer games would come out, regardless if its horror or a fps based game. there is potential of replability to that style of play.