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PETER HOSKIN: You think the weather outside is frightful? Wait till you get to US Outpost #31, in Antarctica, where some Thing is running amok...


It's winter. A great time for you and a few close friends to hunker down in a cosy location, safe from the freezing weather outside, and... descend into madness.

A great time for you and a few close friends to hunker down in a cosy location, safe from the freezing weather outside, and... descend into madness and paranoia as a parasitic monster from outer space tears through your number. Oh, it’s just a remastered version of the 2002 game The Thing, which was itself based on — and a sequel to — John Carpenter’s classic 1982 horror film of the same name. The makers of this remaster, the great folk at Nightdive Studios, have decided to polish but not jettison the original’s PlayStation 2-era blockiness — which goes to show just how atmospheric, artistic and sometimes downright scary it was in the first place.

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