The Thing Remastered Review - Review - Nintendo World Report
Night Dive Studios, my favorite purveyor of remastered relics from my salad days, is back again, this time with a project that’s targeting me personally. They have aimed their particular talents at The Thing, a 2002 sequel to the seminal 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name. That film, a masterwork of practical effects led by Kurt Russell’s magnificent beard, was released just a few months prior to my own birth. I preach the gospel of The Thing to anybody who will listen, so you can imagine my excitement when I read, in the pages of EGM (if memory serves) of a Carpenter-endorsed adaptation by Computer Artworks. It was released in 2002, a banner year already packed with Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, and Super Mario Sunshine, but I managed to play The Thing on my neglected PS2 and enjoyed it, though I never beat it. Going forward in this review, when I refer to The Thing by name, I mean the video game. If I want to refer to the 1982 movie, I’ll specify.
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