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not good, but not all bad
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I borrowed this game from my friends three years ago and forgot about it. It has many bad aspects to it, yet i was glued to my T.V. for four hours before I noticed how bad it seemed.
Pros- Good partner AI, I like how there are soldier, medic, and engineer classes (Very Half-Life Opposing Force), Realistic weapons and reloading, good enemy AI and they fight in packs.
Cons- Most allies heads will expload and they will attack you,leaving you with no help at all later, Blood checks do nothing at all(I've check allies blood to see if they are fine, it would say they are fine, then I would walk into another room and they would morph and attack), graphics seem somewhat dated.
So its not totally horrible, but has some bad elements.
Action packed follow up to the movie!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User
Don't be fooled by other reviews. This isn't really a survival horror game. It's a squad based action game, with horror elements. Expect lots of shooting and running!
John Carpenter's classic movie The Thing, a remake of the awfully cheesy movie from the 1950's, has a classic premise that John W. Campbell originally wrote in the short story that spawned both movies, "Who Goes There." Finding a shape shifting alien frozen in the ice, and then dealing with it when it wakes up and isn't happy, is a really good setting for a horror story.
The game is a direct sequel to the Carpenter movie, and although it lacks Kurt Russel, it does a great job of re-creating the atmosphere of the film. The isolation of the antarctic research outposts is palpable, and the danger of freezing to death and getting lost in the perpetual darkness add to the tension. Your team mates will get more and more upset by the death that you discover, causing you to take measures from disarming them to killing them outright.
And I haven't even mentioned the monsters. From tiny little things that resemble facehuggers from alien to gigantic boss monsters, you will encounter a wide variety of bloodthirsty killers. Sometimes your teammates may even suddenly mutate into monsters, wreaking havoc on the sanity of the remaining members.
Unlike many survival horror games, this one gives you plenty of ammunition, so there is no need to hold back on shooting the baddies. It does use a stupid tape recorder saving system, so you have to keep on the look out for places to save the game. The story is pretty good, but if you've seen the movie you can pretty much guess the plot of the game.
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