The Thing

No One Survives Alone

Product Information

Knowing who you can trust is the difference between living or dying.

Dropped into the frozen wastelands of Antarctica, you're the leader of a military rescue team sent to investigate the mysterious deaths of an American scientific expedition.

In the punishing wind and cold, your team encounte4s a strange, shape-shifting alien life form that assumes the appearance of the people it kills. this monster is difficult to see, hard to kill, and seemingly impossible to evade. And when you see it, it's often too late.

Try to control your panic-stricken squad  - and your own fear - in the face of spectacular alien destruction, gruesome carnage, shocking plot twists and imminent death. Your only hope is to trust your team...and hope that they trust you.

The Thing brings fear and suspense to unimaginable levels. Unlike anything you've experienced blending action, evasion, trust and fear.


Product Highlights

Taking place shortly after the events of John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic, The Thing combines the best of survival horror and squad-based action for a completely new gaming experience.

As mission leader Captain Blake, test your fear factor as you fight to survive 11 multi-objective levels, endure shocking scare moments, and battle the most grotesque beats in the history of horror. From spider-like mutated head scuttlers, to walkers and full multi-appendage Thing bosses, exact sweet revenge by torching your alien enemies with mind-blowing firepower like explosives and flamethrowers.

Captain Blake is a military officer with a specialty in small arms. As part of the first Special Forces Group headed by Colonel Whitley, Blake's been put in command of the reconnaissance mission sent to investigate the strange loss of communication with US Outpost 31.


Product Features

• Four fresh innovations that take next-gen survial-horror gameplay to unbelievable new levels.
• Use awesome firepower like explosives and flamethrowers to torch your enemy.
• Control your squads emotions using innovative trust/fear tactics.
• Fight fear with psychological mind games to survive.
• Experience state-of-the-art environmental effects.
• Choose multiple paths to solve levels and accomplish goals.

Minimum Requirements

• Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
• 64MB RAM
• 400MHz PII CPU
• DX 8-compatible video card
• 8MB video memory
• DirectSound8 - compatible sound card
• 600MB disc space
• 8X CD-ROM drive
•  Keyboard
• Mouse

Recommended Requirments

• Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
• 64MB RAM
• 600MHz PII CPU
• DX 8-compatible video card
• 8MB video memory
• DirectSound8 - compatible sound card
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• 600MB disc space
•  Keyboard
• Mouse