Its first smart decision is beginning the story soon after where the film left off instead of doing a predictable remake of the same plot. The good news is that The Thing for PC lives up to a good amount of that promise. Set in an isolated Antarctic outpost, this game has the potential to scare you not with what you see, but when you don't see anything and yet you know the real danger could be standing right next to you with a gun in his hand. However, unlike some movies, The Thing is perfectly suited to a creepy, action-adventure game. This sort of thing usually sets off alarm bells with gamers early given the track record of titles based on movie licenses. Just 20 short years after the film was released, Universal Interactive has seen fit to bestow us with a game tie-in. You can't stand close to the people who only hours before had been your comrades. You can never ease that grip on your weapon. But it was Kurt Russell's performance when he was dictating a message into a tape recorder - one he hoped would be found by a rescue party if no one survived - that really conveyed the pure fear.

Sure, it had the goop and gore scattered throughout, especially once 'The Thing' really started to spread its, er, substance around. The key to John Carpenter's 1982 scare flick, The Thing, was its incredibly effective build up of paranoia.

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