The Thing
While investigating the enigmatic deaths of American scientists in the Antarctic, a military rescue team encounters a strange shape-shifting alien life-form that assumes the appearance of the people it kills…
The Thing is an adventure developed by Computer Artworks, released 20 August 2002 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Thing is
The Thing is an adventure game developed by Computer Artworks and released in 2002. It was published by Black Label Games. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Thing is a 2002 squad-based third-person shooter survival horror video game developed by Computer Artworks and co-published by Vivendi Universal Games and Konami for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. Versions for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance were also planned, but were both cancelled early in development.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Thing series
The Thing is the first of 4 entries we hold in the The Thing series. The next entry was Pinball FX Midnight in 2023. Its critic score of 69 is 12 points below the series average of 81. The highest-rated entry is Pinball FX Midnight at 96.
How it was received
The Thing holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 71, across 63 votes.
What it launched against
The Thing launched on 20 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Mafia and Syberia. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Mafia, Syberia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Thing yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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