KLoWn wrote...
bukbuk wrote...
the day i've got my new PC(2002), this is the first game i installed myself...8)
being a fan of The Thing movie...the game is not perfect, but it's still good to me though...and i don't mind if they're gonna remake the game again...8)
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/02/25/the-thing-review/
To be fair, with the improved tech in games nowadays, this could easily be remade to live up to it's full potential. All it takes is the right approach. While there's nothing really wrong with gunning down hordes of mini-Thing monsters, it get's close to replacing horror-suspence with just plain action-violence. If you tone back the action to maybe a handful of difficult encounters with monsters and crank up the game's creepy atmosphere to 11, you can get a game that'd better live up to the original movie.
To counter-balance the lack of action, you could be tasked with various objectives, such as investigating what happened at the base, searching for teammates that have suddenly gone missing, try to find ways to contact someone on the outside and warn them about the situation, and/or attempt to escape the frozen hellhole with your life (sanity is optional). To add to the tension, the whole team trust mechanic that became one of the original game's highlights could be a lot more effective when fleshed out with better AI and a few tweaks, maybe have some teammates start suspecting that you're infected whenever you're out of their sight for too long or due to the influence of another teammate that really IS infected and is trying to turn the others against you. There could even be moments when a teammate could become completely batshit insane, go gun crazy, and then try to kill everybody around him, if not himself. That'd make for some interesting gameplay on the fly when you're already busy with the aforementioned investigations, attempts of escape, and life-or-death struggles with the resident Eldritch abominations.