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The Thing

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73%Game Brain Score
73% User Score Based on 58 reviews
Critic Score 66%Based on 2 reviews

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About The Thing

The Thing is a single player survival shooter game with horror and science fiction themes. It was developed by Computer Artworks and was released on August 20, 2002. It received mostly positive reviews from both critics and players.

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. As the team leader, you must forget everything you ever learned about obliterating aliens simply with a barrage of violent ammunition--this monster is difficult to see, hard to kill, and seem…

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The Thing is a survival shooter game with horror and science fiction themes. Common tags for The Thing include science.

The Thing is available on PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation.

The Thing was released on August 20, 2002.

The Thing was developed by Computer Artworks.

The Thing has received mostly positive reviews from players.

The Thing is a single player game.

Similar games include Blue Hill Wendigo, Xentra Station, Knights End, Link, Antarctica 88 and others.