No One Survives Alone.
The 2002 third-person survival horror shooter that serves as a sequel to the genre-defining 1982 film is back, remastered by Nightdive Studios to bring this innovative blend of fast paced squad action meets survival horror to the modern era. Including Antialiasing, Per P...
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No One Survives Alone.
The 2002 third-person survival horror shooter that serves as a sequel to the genre-defining 1982 film is back, remastered by Nightdive Studios to bring this innovative blend of fast paced squad action meets survival horror to the modern era. Including Antialiasing, Per Pixel Lighting, 4K Resolution and up to 144 FPS.
Where the movie ended, the true terror begins.
You are Cpt J.F. Blake, leader of a U.S. Special Forces rescue team sent to investigate the blood-curdling events and enigmatic deaths of the American scientific team that transpired at the Outpost 31 research facility located in the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. Within these inhospitable surroundings your team encounters a strange shape-shifting alien life-form that assumes the appearance of people that it kills. Trapped by the elements and infected by this horrific entity, using all your team members is critical if you hope to accomplish your objectives, let alone survive. If you only knew which ones were still human…
The Thing Remastered Key Features:
• In 20 frightening levels, lead your team against terrifying monsters, from the scuttling head-spiders and human-like walkers to gigantic multi-tentacled beasts.
• Advanced trust/fear interface adds a new level of interaction – How you influence your teams psychological state determines whether or not they will co-operate with you.
• Experience brand new dynamic lighting, specular mapping, shadows, depth of field complemented by improved models, textures and environments to create a deep level of immersion.
• Use awesome firepower like machine guns, explosives and flamethrowers to torch your enemies.
• Brand new Achievements.
• Quality of Life gameplay enhancements to improve your experience.
• Choose multiple paths to solve problems that lie ahead and accomplish goals.
Popular achievements
Ghost From the Past
Play the Tape.
common
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54.29%
Let There Be Light
Restore power at Norwegian camp.
common
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50.79%
Bad Blood
Administer a Thing test.
common
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41.36%
Perfect Trust
Achieve 100% trust with all team members in a single level.
common
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42.86%
Out of This World
Find the UFO.
common
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60.79%
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Amazing what the developers did here! The game does show it's age but as someone who played the original there are a good number of improvements (such as scripted parts where your followers ALWAYS turn despite not being infected). A good way get more out of this game's story is to also watch the 1982 movie (a CLASSIC) as the game is basically a direct sequel. I will admit though I am a bit biased as I LOVE the orginal movie.
I've only seen gameplay overviews such as on angry video game nerd and GmanLives. That being said, I've played for an hour and is amazing! Nightdave surely recreated the original game faithfully - with crisp graphics, intriguing gameplay and simplistic. Highly recommend!
still own the original old Version CD in my retro collection and can play this amazing game with my Windows 98/XP Retro PC.
I'm waiting for a good offer, 29€ is too expensive for me ;-).
kind regards
Low industry standards aside, from a visual and gameplay perspective this is generally a pretty good remaster. Every change is significant enough to enhance the original game's feel, while remaining subtle enough to not appear like a garish amalgamation of poorly thought out mods. All and all, the art and design teams did a very good job.
Unfortunately, it suffers from an issue that's been plaguing remasters for as long as they've existed, namely the fact that the focus has been placed exclusively on the visuals and gameplay while the audio has gone completely ignored, and The Thing's audio has not aged well even for a PS2 era title. It's disappointing to see that Nightdive has continued the trend of making no effort to improve it despite how heavily this title relies on atmosphere to sell itself:
- There are frequent moments of radio silence where there's literally no sound playing, then you start crawling through a vent or reload your weapon and the most awkward Half-Life-esque sound kicks in like a phone ringing in a library.
- The music, although true to the movie, is so poorly timed that it almost feels like it's bugged at times. You open a door and the game goes "dun dun... dun dun... dun dun..." then 10 seconds later it abruptly goes back to total radio silence.
- Some sound effects like the aforementioned reload sound felt pretty outdated even by PS2 era standards, and they haven't exactly aged well since then. There's a huge discrepancy in terms of sound quality between the various sound effects. Some are relatively crisp while others sound like they were captured with a tape recorder.
- They removed the credits song, After Me by Saliva. The original track they replaced it with is arguably more fitting, but the old credits were a piece of early 2000's nostalgia that should've been preserved, since that's kind of the whole point of remasters like this. C'mon guys it's just one song, can't be that expensive.
Maybe wait for a sale.
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