The Thing: Remastered

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 - Some sound effects like the aforementioned reload sound felt pretty outdated even by PS2 era standards, and they haven't exactly aged well since then.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.

Nice little game. The price is fairly steep for the very light coat of paint it got. Some of the later levels are a little frustrating but overall not too bad. Wait for a sale and grab it, it's certainly worth the time but not the full asking price in 2024. In my opinion this should have been a ten perhaps even fifteen dollar release.

This game is a follow-up from the OG movie. The story is canon (per Carpenter words) The game itself is mid, i would rate it 6/10 and 7/10 for the remastered version. The first half is just cool and expend the story left from the OG movie. The second half of the game is just a standard generic shooter with janky aiming system. I liked it for what it was, but it's not a masterpiece. I do recommand it for those who like the movies. However wait for sales.

Nightdive put their heart and soul into remastering this, and it shows. The lighting is a standout, as well as the improved controls. The game itself, however, is not amazing. Definitely the weakest entry out of the games that they have brought back for modern audiences. There's some fairly frustrating boss fights, and sometimes the partner AI can be more of a nuisance than an actual help. I beat it in about 4 hours, which is kinda short for the amount it costs. Still, I enojoyed myself, and would recommend it.

Just look at revies of OG game for that 6/10 The Remaster is amazing. Only complaint is that the game is only 4 hours long and for 30$ you can get a lot more game somewhere else. However, If you are a fan of the original game or the movie / Survival Horror, this game will be a great 4 hours for you. I like what Nightdive is doing so I bought it at that price. Can't wait for the next project. Grabbed it on steam and wished I got it here for Non DRM :(