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The Thing: Remastered is within the works for consoles and PC (GOG, Steam) featuring two of the unique game’s developers.The Thing: Remastered is being developed by Nightdive Studios with the help of technical director Mark Atkinson and senior artist Cumron “Ron” Ashtiani who were a component of the team at Computer Artworks that made the 2002 game. SyFy Wire first broke the news of the remaster with the announcement trailer and interviewed its original lead designer Andrew Curtis together with Mark and Cumron about it.
Per SyFy:
“Amazing to listen to The Thing is getting remastered to Ps, Xbox, and Switch 22 years later!” echoes Andrew Curtis, lead designer on the unique game. “It’s still thought to be a special project for our small team and we remember this time with great fondness. Wishing the team at Nightdive good luck with the remastering [and] bringing it back to the fans of the unique and recent players — even with a number of the questionable creative and UX design selections I made back then.”
Atkinson isn’t afraid to say how the remaster presents a brand new opportunity to repair or possibly change things from the unique game that couldn’t be done back then on account of timelines or hardware limitations of the time. Mark enthusiastically adds how he’s in constant contact with Nightdive Studios to supply as much material as possible to help with the remaster.
“I’m talking to them almost each day … because stuff comes up and any person finds a file. People keep going, ‘I used to be on my hard disk and I discovered this. Is it useful to you?’ Unfortunately for the Nightdive team, every two seconds I’m going, ‘Here’s one other thing, here’s one other item.’”
Blessings from John Carpenter and other surprises
The 2002 game served as a sequel to John Carpenter’s cult classic 1982 movie starring Kurt Russel and included a voice-over from William B. Davis (X-Files). Davis, while still performing because the “cigarette smoking man” within the X-Files took on portraying one other yet questionable government authority figure throughout the sport. Unlike many games adapted from movies on the time The Thing managed to garner praise from the film’s director. Carpenter also allowed his likeness to be utilized in the sport for one among its key characters however the developers were unable to align their schedule with that of the filmmaker to have him provide its voiceover.
“That is one intense motion/horror game. You gotta play this one, man – it’ll blast you against the wall.”
-John Carpenter
Description (via GOG)
No One Survives Alone.
“The 2002 third-person survival horror shooter that serves as a sequel to the genre-defining 1982 film is back, remastered by Nightdive Studios to bring this progressive mix of fast paced squad motion meets survival horror to the fashionable era. Including Antialiasing, Per Pixel Lighting, 4K Resolution and as much as 144 FPS.”
Key Features:
- In 20 frightening levels, lead your team against terrifying monsters, from the scuttling head-spiders and human-like walkers to gigantic multi-tentacled beasts.
- Advanced trust/fear interface adds a brand new level of interaction – The way you influence your teams psychological state determines whether or not they’ll co-operate with you.
- Experience brand recent dynamic lighting, specular mapping, shadows, depth of field complemented by improved models, textures and environments to create a deep level of immersion.
- Use awesome firepower like machine guns, explosives and flamethrowers to torch your enemies.
Brand recent Achievements. - Quality of Life gameplay enhancements to enhance your experience.
- Select multiple paths to resolve problems that lie ahead and achieve goals.
