The Thing: Remastered review – more than just a touch-up

There’s a creature out there that can wear your face. It can wrap itself in your skin like a fleshy onesie, nestling against your organs. Anyone you meet could be the beast, such is its skill at taking on their very essence. Some say it makes you even better. The beast’s name? Nightdive Studios. The masters of the remaster have done it again. The Thing: Remastered is an excellent touch-up of a flawed classic with ideas ahead of its time. Taking the Aliens approach to a sequel story, the 2002 squad-based shooter begins a short time after the movie, with you taking control of a team of marines picking through the remains of an Antarctic compound filled with shapeshifting aliens. It’s a survival horror game with an action slant – more Resident Evil 4 than Resident Evil – with plentiful ammo and set pieces. But what makes The Thing great is its pervading sense of paranoia. Anyone in your AI-controlled squad can become a meat puppet for the Thing, and as far as they’re concerned, so could you. Accidentally tag a