The developers probably felt this during testing because I hardly ever saw such units in the final version. The casting of the soldiers is not quite well thought out either, as they are no better shots than their more skilled counterparts. Strangely enough, the doctors cannot heal themselves (while we can…) – an understandable difficulty from a gameplay point of view, but not very realistic, to say the least… The doctor is also extremely useful, as he saves us from wasting the very few first-aid kits available. The engineer plays the most crucial role in the game because you can only get ahead if you “master” the electrical equipment in many places, so you have to watch him like the apple of your eye. So apart from Blake, we control three types of unit: the engineer repairs the various broken, sparking switchboards, the medic heals our broken (bleeding) bodies, and the soldier mows down enemy dogs. Whereas in those games, you always control a single character, here you manage an entire team – albeit one directly led by Captain Blake, with the others only being given weapons, ammunition and orders. Still, it quickly becomes apparent that it has very little in common with the simplicity of Alone in the Dark/Resident Evil games. How he managed to do that, we won’t know for a long time…Īt first glance, the game itself looks like traditional survival horror. After the game’s protagonist and his small team are sent to the base, which is in total ruins (though still too intact – I don’t quite understand, for example, why, while the Blair/Thing-built “spaceship” explodes in the film in an obvious and spectacular way, it remains intact here…?), we soon discover that the “Thing” has somehow survived. What was so odd about the film was that there was no way of knowing who had been infected by the carcass – this was only revealed when it suddenly transformed into one researcher or another, to slaughter the unfortunate few who were near it like a rabid, bloodthirsty creature. The biggest question for viewers of the original film, of course, is who or what survived the horrific events.
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