Thank you so much for putting it up here. This is one of those games I have always heard people say good things about in my PS2 days but for some reason I ended up skipping it back then. I didn't know it had a PC version until know, so I guess I'll give it a try. Anyone have a fix?? Lord Ogrogash I watched first the New Movie, then the Old Movie, it made so much sense, now i plan to play the game, really nice idea, wish they make the third movie and another game, to actually be still made in DirectX 9.
Jonny 1 point. Pope points. What a load of boring bullshit. Constantly repeating, overwhelming number of opponents, fiddly micromanagement of teammates who are constantly walking in the players fire. And in addition to the shitty micromanagement you are confronted with a shitty UI. The game survived about an hour on my harddrive. Even for free - it's not worth my time. I need some help. I got the game in a state where I could run it, but every time I try to start it, it tells me I can't because it's not detecting a CD-rom drive.
LoydMongo 2 points. Seems the file ikernel. So what I did was copy all the files from the. I hope it helps you too! Ngoma 0 point. ZAZ 0 point. An awesome game. Jab 0 point. Had this installed and playing on win 8. Alucard 0 point. It doesnt work! When i try to unzip it, it says " No archive found" and when i try to mount it with daemon tools it gives an error.
Fredsj -2 points. Gertold Grecht 1 point. KingsmanTheGreat 4 points. The game installs via the setup wizard but once you install and click run it does not respond at all.
Quasimojo 2 points. I just joined the Outpost 31 Facebook group and remembered this game and had to try to find it! BenjaminGrimm 2 points. Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. If you have trouble to run The Thing Windows , read the abandonware guide first!
We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. Also, we try to upload manuals and extra documentation when possible. The whole place is a smouldering ruin. There are corpses and trails of gore strewn about. And to make matters worse a storm has whipped up. As the insertion helicopter pulls away, the first thing you have to contend with out in the darkness of the snowstorm is the extreme cold.
Spend too long out there and your health starts plummeting along with the temperature. Fortunately, duck under even the flimsiest of cover and you immediately warm up. Looking round the base confirms that The Thing is a fine looking game - up to a point.
The character models are intricately detailed, the lighting effects create plenty of atmosphere, and the snow billows convincingly around you as you trudge through the fresh powder outside. But in other areas, it lets itself down. Shadows are cast into thin air when you perch on elevated platforms.
The camera jumps around when you navigate enclosed spaces. And it's easy to trigger a graphical glitch with all manner of limbs and appendages disappearing through walls when you get too close. In a game touted as the scariest thing to have happened on a PC. Or rather The Things.
And it's not long before they start coming thick and fast. Starting with little cockroach-like heads and legs that come at you in waves, building to man-sized hunks of dripping gore that refuse to die.
In the film. Kurt Russell and co have barely any weapons bar some flame-throwers to deal with the extra-terrestrial menace. Not so here. As well as flamers, your boys are packing submachine guns, shotguns and grenades. Using these to waste the little scuttling things is a fairly easy task.
Just point in their general direction and let autotargeting do the rest, or switch to first-person and do the aiming yourself. Alternatively, leave them to your squad members who will fire automatically - and accurately - of their own accord. But the bigger manifestations are a different matter. We're talking the shambling atrocities that imitate humans and other, larger life-forms.
These brutes don't die until they've been weakened with normal weapons and then burnt to a cinder with a flamer or an incendiary grenade. Supporting each other in fire-fights is only the tip of the iceberg as far as team interaction goes. Your squad can include a medic for healing the others, an engineer to repair electrical items, and a soldier for general ass-kicking.
You can never directly control any of your compadres, only issue them orders and hope for the best. The only things they do of their own accord is shoot and mutter stuff like 'This mission is bullshit", from time to time.
Or what if they simply panic and start crapping themselves in mortal terror? Above the heads of each character appear floating icons showing their changing mental state. Force one guy to give you his gun and he'll lose some trust. Don't fire at the aliens when they attack and he'll lose more. What can you do to convince them otherwise? Well, you could give them a gun or some ammo. Kill some of The Things.
Trust works both ways, and when you encounter a wandering trooper you have to ask yourself: is this guy all he seems. See the Missed Opportunity panel for more on this. Your other major problem is when your troops start panicking. If they're unarmed, trudging through the snow in the darkness outside and stumble upon a dismembered corpse, you can forgive them for starting to lose it. Again, giving them a weapon can help. Or a quick injection with the adrenaline hypo can temporarily give them the bollocks they need to follow your orders again.
A great idea, all this squad interaction and the whole psychological malarkey. But sadly it seems to be a little half-hearted. For one. And for another, typically you barely notice their changing psychological states. As far as combat tactics go, all you do is stand near each other and hope for the best as there are too few options in what orders you need to give to offer some kind of tactical subtlety. The game stays movie-like all the way through with its frequent use of cut-scenes to keep you in the picture and set up your next mission goal.
These are all powered by the game engine so they're not the best looking and many of the cuts are slightly haphazard, leaving you wondenng where the hell you are when they finish.
The main disappointment to fans of the film, though, will be the creatures themselves. The Thing in the movie looked like Satan had vomited a man-sized pile of offal and body parts.
The Things here in the game look like little computer game monsters. Similarly, the bleak desolate arctic location provided the movie with the perfect sense of isolation and claustrophobia. But in a game it can all get repetitive and even bland.
In the end, The Thing has plenty of good ideas. It tries hard to be more than yet another average third-person actioner. We hoped for a classic genre-bending fright-fest. In the film, the characters and the audience are never sure who The Thing is. In the game you aren't either, but this could have played a far greater role in proceedings. During the player's investigation of the ruins of the Outpost, they will find the UFO from the film. They will also find the body of Childs, one of the survivors from the movie.
Upon securing the facility, Blake is airlifted to the Norwegian research station to locate and reinforce Alpha Team after Colonel Whitely informs him that they have lost contact with the team. There Blake and his group encounter swarms of Things that slowly dwindle down his team as Blake rescues Colin and learns of a government conspiracy with Gen Inc in conducting experiments on the alien lifeforms before they began to infest the research facility.
Install notes: You will install the game from the disc image. Then install Patch. The next step is to copy the file located in the NoCD directory in the place where you installed the game.
Now you can start the game. If you have a problem with the sound - run the file that resides in the Sound Fix folder. Important Information: Abandonwaregames. To the best of our knowledge, these games are no longer available on the market and are not supported by publishers. If you know otherwise, write to us.
0コメント