The player also has the option to enter first-person mode for more accurate targeting during combat. The basic gameplay in The Thing is that of a standard third-person shooter the player character can run and shoot, strafe, crouch, interact with the environment, interact with NPCs and use items, such as flashlights, fire extinguishers or flares. As the helicopter flies away from the base, the pilot reveals himself to be R.J. Blake encounters a helicopter pilot, who helps him defeat the Whitley-Thing. At the partly excavated site of the Thing's spaceship from the film series, Whitley transforms into a massive Thing creature. Whitley flees further into the base, pursued by Blake. He explains that an airlift team is on its way and when its arrives, he will begin global exposure. He sets him on fire, but Whitely is undamaged. Eventually, Blake confronts Whitley himself. He learns that Whitley plans to distribute the Thing virus around the world using a fleet of airplanes, however, he is able to destroy them before they take off. Blake fights his way through the research facility, battling numerous black ops under Whitley's command, as well as many Things. Blake learns that Whitley was in charge of the entire operation and has injected himself with a strain of the virus known as "Cloud Virus B4" in an attempt to cure his terminal cancer. isolated a form of the Thing dubbed the "Cloud virus", which was intended for use in biological warfare. After escaping his confinement, he unearths a government conspiracy whereby Gen-Inc. However, he then encounters Whitley, who shoots him with a tranquilizer gun.īlake awakes in the now abandoned " Strata" research facility, and learns that his cells have a unique resistance to infection by the Thing. Blake rescues Faraday and attempts to leave. had been conducting experiments on the Things when their team was infected, and now only a few survivors remain within the facility. Moving on, he enters the "Pyron" sub-facility beneath the Norwegian base, learning of a company called Gen-Inc., who placed a research team under the command of Dr.
Blake continues to pursue the man with the radio, eventually discovering that he is a Thing. However, Pierce believes that he has become infected, and rather than allow himself to turn into a Thing, he shoots himself in the head. En route to the warehouse, Blake encounters Pierce in the observatory. However, they are soon separated, and with no other choice, Blake continues on, finding the radio room, but discovering that someone has stolen the radio and fled into a nearby warehouse. Blake does so, proving himself to be uninfected, and he and Pierce set out to find a way to reestablish communication with Whitley. However, Pierce doesn't trust anyone, believing everyone to be infected and demanding that Blake agrees to a blood test. He discovers that Alpha Team have been attacked and scattered by an unknown enemy, which is soon revealed to be a hoard of " scuttlers", small limbs and appendages of much larger Things. Whilst the rest of Beta Team are airlifted to safety, Blake heads to the Norwegian camp to locate and reinforce Alpha Team, with whom all contact has been lost. Under orders from Whitley, Beta Team set up C-4 explosives throughout the facility, which are detonated remotely, completely destroying the outpost. The film's other survivor, MacReady, is nowhere to be found. Whilst searching, they also find the body of Childs, one of the two survivors at the end of the film, who has died from hypothermia. They then find information detailing how the base has been infiltrated by an extraterrestrial lifeform that is capable of imitating the physical appearance and characteristics of any living organism. MacReady, describing how nobody trusts anybody anymore and that everyone is very tired. Whilst investigating Outpost 31, Beta Team soon discover the small spacecraft made by the Blair-Thing in the film and the tape recorder with a message from R.J. Whitley who is in communication with them via radio. Both teams are under the overall command of Colonel R.C. camp, whilst Alpha Team investigate the Norwegian camp under the command of Captain Pierce. Blake is the leader of Beta Team, who are investigating the U.S. special forces arrives to investigate both the American camp and the nearby Norwegian camp. The other man is attacked just as the camera loses its feedback and a mysterious man chuckles.Ī team of U.S.
Both men are promptly attacked by a monstruous creature the man in the blue coat manages to fend off the creature momentarily, but is killed in a gruesome manner. Outpost 31 in Antarctica, some time after the events of the film.Īn introductory cutscene shows via CCTV footage a man in a blue coat exploring a mess hall in an unknown military facility with a flashlight, when someone begins asking for help in Norwegian, revealed to be a man in a combat medical uniform, seemingly wounded.
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