The Thing: Remastered Reviews
Out of time? Maybe, but The Thing: Remastered maintains excellent tension at times, and team management, though not always focused, is an added value that should be noticed in a game like this.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Despite all its flaws, The Thing: Remastered is a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s classic film. While it has shortcomings in terms of storytelling and gameplay, if you’re a fan of the movie, it’s still worth experiencing. Nightdive Studio has done a good job delivering a faithful remake, but it hasn’t managed to address the issues of the original version.
Review in Persian | Read full review
I loved replaying The Thing. You can tell what a labor of love this was for the team at Nightdive who have a fantastic track record for not just porting titles to modern but making them a much more enticing product for everyone. Yes, the game still feels like an older title but it's both easier on the eye and easier to play. This makes The Thing: Remastered the definitive way to experience The Thing. There are so many nods and cameos relating to the original film you'd be hard-pressed to find such an impassioned love letter to a source material anywhere else.
The Thing has lots to love and plenty to get frustrated about. Even with quality-of-life improvements, certain design choices are hopelessly dated, and the final act, with its over-the-top gunplay, is more comical than scary. Still, it's full of love for John Carpenter's iconic horror movie, and that alone means a lot.
Review in Finnish | Read full review
Nightdive Studios deserves praise once again for another successful remaster, managing to update a game known for its technical issues. Unfortunately, the remaining mechanical and pacing problems are still very much present.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
It works as it should, which is always a plus (even if it’s a little baffling at times), and I have no doubt that if you sank a half-dozen hours or so into the game back in 2002, you should find that the game is probably the same now as it was then. I think that if you don’t have that sense of nostalgia you’ll probably find the game a little lacking, but as PS2 remasters go, you could probably do a lot worse.
The Thing: Remastered isn't a bad game, nor a bad adaptation. [...] However, it'd be naive to say it's without fail or even one of the best movie adaptations in games ever. Frankly, a remake would have been better than a simple remaster, but it didn't ruin my day.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
The Thing: Remastered captures the essence of a timeless horror game and gives it a fresh coat of paint alongside some quality-of-life improvements for a modern audience.
The Thing Remastered is an absolute must play for fans of action game. I’ve been kicking myself for missing out on it the first time around. While a sequel to a horror movie, the game lacks in that department and enemies aren’t as gruesome as we’ve seen in most recent horror outings, but the atmosphere and eerily quietness makes up for it. Sure, some mechanics and the A.I. does feel a bit archaic at times, but it doesn’t stop from making The Thing Remastered a must play experience.
Nightdive has, once again, to no one’s shock, delivered another stellar remastering effort. Whilst The Thing is far from being considered a perfect game (for some, even a straightforward “good” game), or even something I would have personally chosen to get the remaster treatment, it’s still a solid title that did its best to recapture the essence of the movie. If anything, I am glad that Nightdive went the extra mile to remaster something that wasn’t exactly good, but surely needed to become widely available once again; it felt like finally being able to experience a forgotten piece of video game history.
The Thing: Remastered is a solid remaster of a decent game that isn't lacking in interesting ideas but doesn't seem to know what to meaningfully do with them.
The Thing: Remastered takes players back to Outpost 31 to experience the conclusion to the John Carpenter horror classic.