The Thing

:This article is about the film. For other meanings of thing, see thing (disambiguation).

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A novelisation by Alan Dean Foster was released around the same time as the movie.

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In 2002, a video game was released, taking the form of a sequel to the film. The game — also titled The Thing — makes use of the elements of paranoia and mistrust intrinsic to the film, and was released on multiple platforms: PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox. The game is horror-based with action elements.

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2002 - Video game - PlayStation 2 - Xbox

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The game is the official sequel to the movie. You play as a soldier with the name of Blake (named after the chief antagonist of the early Carpenter movie The Fog). Your mission is to find out what happend on the Norwegian polar base. As you play the game you will enter many locations from the movie (even finding the tape recording that MacReady hid in the original movie) and are able to recruit up to four people who will follow you if you can gain their trust. You must prove that you are not infected or else they will not follow you; additionally your teammates can turn into "the thing" at any time, though this aspect of the game is often criticized as too scripted. There are three classes of people that you can recruit to your team; Soldiers, Engineers, and Medics.

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The game has many similarities with the Electronic arts game Freedom Fighters. Both games use a trust parameter to recruit new people. However, Freedom Fighters is more straight forward in that your teammates are not likely to commit suicide or turn into "The Thing" at any moment.

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The game also features a cameo appearance by John Carpenter as the character Dr. Faraday (Carpenter provided the character's likeness and voice), and the voice of William B. Davis as Colonel Whiteley, the game's main antagonist.

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