{"id":145,"date":"2011-10-19T12:38:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2011-10-19T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:39:43","slug":"the-thing-for-the-ps2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"The Thing for the PS2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the obsession continues.<\/p>\n<p>I played through the majority of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Thing_(video_game)\">PS2 <em>The Thing<\/em><\/a>, which set itself up as a sequel to the movie. Two things worth mention:<\/p>\n<p>From a <strong>plot<\/strong> standpoint, this game went the route of <em>Aliens<\/em> and gave the government\/some corporation\/some mad scientist dude the brilliant idea of taking this highly-dangerous being and studying it for purposes of <strong>evil war stuff<\/strong>. So, once again we have the \u2018better not let this thing get to the mainland\u2019 conflict. In truth, it just gave an excuse to blow shit up. Which is fine, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>gameplay<\/strong> is more-or-less <em>Goldeneye<\/em>, but with the addition of some basic squad management with a decidedly <em>Thing<\/em> twist. As you come across<strong> fellow survivors<\/strong>, you have no idea if they are actually human or not. Same goes for them \u2013 and if they don\u2019t trust you you can forget about getting any help. \u00a0Or, you know, they might explode into gory creepos and kill you. The NPCs will also become more and more freaked out as they witness crazy alien stuff, eventually collapsing into breakdowns if you don\u2019t keep their spirits up.<strong> Fear and trust<\/strong> \u2013 two of the main emotional elements of the movie. So, good job there &#8212; though I would have preferred more of it.<\/p>\n<p>And at the end, MacReady\u2019s still alive.\u00a0 <em>What?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the obsession continues. I played through the majority of the PS2 The Thing, which set itself up as a sequel to the movie. Two things worth mention: From a plot standpoint, this game went the route of Aliens and gave the government\/some corporation\/some mad scientist dude the brilliant idea of taking this highly-dangerous being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrogaming","category-the-thing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}