The further you dig into the base and what its previous occupants left behind, the bigger and scarier the monsters you encounter become. But you were expecting that already, weren’t you? Oh, and some voracious heads that run around on legs like giant spiders.
You find little except snow, ruined buildings and charred bodies. Instead it’s set a A few months later, as you head the team sent to investigate what happened to the research base. In case you don't know, the game doesn’t attempt to recreate the W events from the film. And there weren’t even any shapeshifting aliens involved.Ĭomputer Artworks’ The Thing hopes to recreate this experience, replacing the smell of journo sweat with the above-mentioned aliens, a stunning new engine and what could well be one of the biggest innovations games have witnessed in years: trust and fear. Words were said, someone was hit over the head with a chair and paranoia set in as we became convinced at least one of us had been planted by a rival magazine. It only took a few hours for the strain to show. The air conditioning was turned up to max, the PCs were disconnected and, later on, thrown against the walls.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of John Carpenter’s The Thing and to prepare for the game of the same name, we locked ourselves up in the office over the weekend with nothing to do but stare at each other’s ugly faces and play with a blowtorch and a piece of wire. We’re nothing if not thorough in our research here at ZONE Towers.
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