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I love this review even more everytime I see it
Keep up the good work man :)
I love this review even more everytime I see it
Keep up the good work man :)
I enjoyed this game with my friends when we got our hands on it… why? because we were like 12 13 and we enjoyed the puking and the cursing (in spanish) i don`t find this to be a bad game, maybe is some kind of nostalgia… but this review is freaking funny love the dance part and that fusebox shit.
Keep it up because your reviews are hilarious and your vlogs are funny and sometimes kind of informative :)
Hah, I just bought this (preowned) from a GameStop for the Xbox, just so we could have a laugh at it with a friend of mine. I've always considered this as one of Spoony's best reviews, and when I noticed the game in the preowned shelf, I just couldn't resist myself. And besides, it was only 11 euros or something, not a big deal. :P
Excellent review! Game looks really shitty! :o
However, if you want to see a really good movie game done more than twenty years after the movie's premiere, play The Warriors. Not the new crap that came out for x360 and the such, but the PS2/Xbox/PSP game by Rockstar. It's a hallmark of what can be done with a movie license if the developer CARES.
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Ever notice that both Escape from New York and Big Trouble in Little China feature fuse/junction boxes? Ironic, isn't it?
The best part about the fusebox in Big Trouble in Little China is listening to the commentary track. It wasn't supposed to explode that close to Kurt Russel's head.
nice hit on Rosie O'Donnel
to tell you the truth though ive never heard of the movie b4
I considered getting this game for a little while, but then I pulled my head out of my ass and realized what a stupid idea it was. Nice to know for sure that I didn't miss anything.
The movie still rules, though.
No man, if you really want a Thing-like experience play Dead Space.
Excellent review. I'm Netflixing “The Thing” right away. Best part of this review: “That Thing You Do” song.
I remember as a kid actually liking this game, I don't know, I didn't have THAT many bugs actually. but I did hate the headcrabs… completely boring sequences with those. But I don't think that my liking of this game lasted, since I never actually finished, I just stopped playing it.
I wonder if any of the game developers saw The Thing. I mean film, not the thing.
Well now when im thinking about this they all must be things! because only imitation can made this shit.
nice review
Very good. Probably your best review.
this is my favorite spoony review. this is probably the 10th time i've watched it. once FFX is done though… that'll almost certainly be my favorite. the first episode was pure gold, i'm sure the rest of it will be fantastic
I was just about to post the exact same comment, I swear.
He demonstrated it when he he tested the Riverdancing guy, the test turned up negative only for the guy to become a mutant anyways. It just shows that the tests themselves are either glitchy or just plain unreliable.
One of Spoony's earliest and one of his best.
Riverdance makes me crack up every time.
As for the game itself… it makes me sad. There was a lot of wasted potential there that could have been fixed if it hadn't been pushed out of the womb too early. Hell, this is probably the first high profile case of a publisher forcing a developer to release unfinished, something that has become all but ubitiquous these days. :/
I think this is my my favorite review all time
i laugh every time i see it
huh all these guys puking reminds me of the Boomer from Left 4 Dead. they should call this game Boomers n fuses
“Puke and Fuses”
heheheheh. . .
I loved the movie and yet I haven't tried this game out. I did did read that the game did well on the PS2 and Xbox but damn you ripped it 5 new ones. great rant
Kurt Russell is the fucking man.
The Thing is freaking awesome movie.
Love the part at 06:10, cracks me up every time! xDDD
No matter how bad things are and if your obsessed by an alien lifeform, theres always time to do some riverdancing to a rocking tune. :D
Hilarious review and definitely one of my favourites.
I remember playing this game on xbox. I played the hell out of it for some unknown reason, and I remember it like a shitstain in my memory. Not sure if you're gonna read this spoony, but I just wanted to touch on some things you mentioned.
The part with Collins wasn't a “bug” but a completely intended and completely stupid mechanic. I remember that several times, your partners seem to morph into things for no reason at all! Well, what happens, is that it seems that the developers had designed this one magic pixel of spot to be a morphswitch for your teammates. Regardless of them being infected or not. I remember guiding 3 of those meandering dimwits through a level, when they hit a meaningless doorway and turned into Things all at once! After I bloodtested all of them!! I guess the devs wanted you to progress through the rest of the level by yourself, and found no other way of accomplishing that besides copping you out and turning all of your partners into Things for the hell of it. And that happens alot.
Another thing you didn't mention, but we saw in the video, was how fucked up the flamethrowers were. All of your weapons lock on to things at close range, otherwise you a first person view to shoot precisely. The flamethrower does not lock on at all, and if you attempt to shoot it out of First Person view, Blake will shoot fire directly onto the floor and basically on his own boots and burn himself like an asshole. In order to really combat any Things yourself with a flamethrower, you need to shoot in First Person view. But that's fucking stupid! You can't even move if you're in first person, and if you try to chase a retreating Thing with the flamethrower, you'll just constantly run over the fire you're shooting and kill yourself. It's fucking bullshit. However, the AI's seem to able to move and blast fire in any direction as they please. It's almost always better to give them the flamethrowers since trying to use them yourself is miserable. But yeah. This game was very disappointing,
I remember looking forward to it so much. Nothing worked out the way it was supposed to. The “trust” system amounted to either using 1 of the 50 bloodtest hypos in your kit on yourself, giving a stranger one of the 9 shotguns you're holding, or just standing in front of them and pointing a gun in their face until they agree to follow you (Seriously, that works. Seeing any person standing around was just a manner of overcoming a minor obstacle before they join you.) They're supposed to become hysterical and uncooperative, forcing you to taze them or drug them with adrenaline, which also never happened.
Fuck this game and fuck my life for ever wasting my goddamn time on it. Great review though.
That one guy sounds like The Tourettes Guy….wait a minute….
Best. Spoony. Review. EVER.
I remember a friend of mine telling me about this game before it came out, but i never played it.
And now upon your review, Im glad I never did.
my god that's a lot of fuse boxes.
Wow, have the movie, have the game. Two things. First, you gripe about a lot of little stuff. Consider it was an early game and based on a B movie. Second, you mean to tell us you didn't get the ending? Dude, Mac was an alien. That's why he survived the cold. I got that right off at the end. This was the game's way of saying “you actually lost”. That was the whole point of “The Thing” was that it took over your body. It was a simple twist in the ending. I can't believe you didn't pick up on that.
This is the first time I've been to your site. I watched several reviews of games. Seems you should be working to make your own games because you find fault with everything else. There is so much about this review that I could respond to. It's rather lame. Go out and get a real job, dude.
Jack is a twatbag.
If Mac was an alien then why the hell he would help that marine? That's stupid.
The Thing a B movie? If so then you are a B internet troll. Try harder next time.
Yeah, that's John Carpenter's entire MO. He makes low budget movies. You obviously don't know anything about him or The Thing. I mean, spoony complains about the cheapness of the movie (UFO, flame throwers, etc) and that's the theme. Wait until your balls drop to post about something older than you, kid.
Good one. Your blazing intelligence and logical reasoning have persuaded me.
Oh, and Mac was an alien, yes. First, the whole point of taking over a body was to blend in and take over other people (ie, take over the planet). Of course he's going to act like a helpful guy and fly the friggin chopper to civilization. If you watched the original movies (yes there were actually 2) you'd know this. That is the alien's goal, idiot. Secondly, how do you explain that he survived the cold when Giles didn't? Because he was an alien!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid fuck.
Oh, and I love the comments here from all these posters who have never played the game…or never even saw the movie, and yet the agree with the review. What a bunch of loser, nerdy, bandwagon followers. Get a life.
You call me names and for the end you call me a kid. Yep, you're definitely a B class internet troll.
Don't want to wast too much time on some random internet asshole but lets clear two things up.
1. Budget for Carpenter's films usually weren't big, true, but that doesn't mean that his films are B class(B movies). Many of them are considered by majority as masterpieces(including “The Thing”). And btw “The Thing” had a quite big budget.
2. Secondly, if Mac DIDN'T show up, the marine would be most likely DEAD. So if the Mac-alien had already a helicopter he could quite easily reach civilization without marine help, then why help him? Also, I doubt that aliens like to kill each other or sacrifice themselves, especially such a big specimen.
To sum it up: YOU'RE TALKING BULLSHIT.
Deal with it, little troll and get lost.
Spoony might need to get a job, but you need to get a hobby. Find something better to do with your evenings than cussing out kids who are ten years your junior.
For someone’s first time visiting The Spoony Experiment, you have an awful lot of unfounded assumptions. If you actually took the time to read some of the posted comments rather than having a knee-jerk reaction, you would have noticed a lot of people on the forums actually disagree with Spoony’s reviews. Most people at some point down the line take issue with something Spoony said, and are vocal about it. But as civil human beings, we take it in stride. He’s entitled to his opinion just as we are. But Lord forbid that anyone disagrees with you, Jack the Wack, or shits on your precious video games.
Your welcome to create as many imaginary video game endings as you want, but don’t act like a conceited asshole when someone calls bullshit.
But seriously, start a stamp collection or something.
Spoony might need to get a job, but you need to get a hobby. Find something better to do with your evenings than cussing out people ten years your junior.
For someone’s first time visiting The Spoony Experiment, you have an awful lot of unfounded assumptions. If you actually took the time to read some of the posted comments rather than having a knee-jerk reaction, you would have noticed a lot of people on the forums actually disagree with Spoony’s reviews. Most people at some point down the line take issue with something Spoony said, and are vocal about it. But as civil human beings, we take it in stride. He’s entitled to his opinion just as we are. But Lord forbid that anyone disagrees with you, Jack the Wack, or shits on your precious video games.
Your welcome to create as many imaginary video game endings as you want, but don’t act like a conceited asshole when someone calls bullshit.
But seriously, start a stamp collection or something.
To answer your second point, I must admit the alien thing makes sense. The thing with the marine makes sense because, generally, when someone is flying around into any country people ask questions and considering the US probably kind of already knew what was going on, I am guessing if McCreedy flew in they would have guessed him an alien and shot his ass down. By helping the marine he can use the marine as a ticket to land, which would end in one of two ways: he makes it to the US and we are all fucked or they shoot him and the marine down – a fittingly macabre ending to what was likely meant to be a suicide mission anyways.
While good ol boy jack is a bit of a jerk, he maybe onto something with alien McCreedy. Or maybe I just have a love of fucked up endings and want him to be right.
And this is coming from the guy who only came here to bitch about the spoonyone.
Plus anyone with half a brain could tell this game is garbage.
I bet you that Jack has nothing better to do than sit on his computer in his mum’s basement.
Oh, and I love the comment from this poster who has never met any of the posters…or even formed a proper sentence, and yet he decided to come here and insult them. What a loser, nerdy, hypocrite. get a life.
Oh ad hominem attacks, how I’ve missed you in the time I’ve spent away from 4chan.
Yes, I’m sure that all the weird glitches in the game, the plot that appears from nowhere and has nothing to do with the orignal story and the huge plot holes in the game plot (like where McCreedy found a spare helicopter with machine in the middle of Antarctica!), I’m sure they’re all homages to Carpenter.
Oh, and don’t bother trying to degrade me by just going ”omg, u dont no anytin bou the Thing, u dont no wat John Carpenter wanted, only i no!!”, as if it’s some magic source material only you have access to, please spare me. I’ve seen the orignal, I own a special edtion DVD of Carpenter’s version, and seen it more times than you’ve gotten laid (which is probably still stuck in single digits, if that) I’ve even read the short story they were based on, or didn’t you know it was based on a story? And yes, I played this game when it came out, and I agree: it was god-awful. So, if you’re done being a jackass, or I used to many big words for you, drop it.
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