The game begins at U.S. Outpost 31 in Antarctica several days after the events of Carpenter's 1982 movie, where a team of U.S. special forces called Beta investigate the destruction of the American base. The player controls the character of Blake, a member of Beta team and the game's protagonist. During Beta Team's exploration Blake finds the small craft made by the Blair-Thing in the first film and also the tape recorder with a message from MacReady describing how the base was over run by an alien life-form that imitates the body and mind of any living organism. The soldiers also find the body of Childs (Keith David), one of the only two survivors from the first movie who apparently died of exposure to extreme cold. Upon securing the facility after facing off with several small Thing monsters, Blake is airlifted to the Norwegian research station to locate and reinforce Alpha Team. Colonel Whitley, the game's villain, informs Blake that they have lost contact with Alpha team. There Blake and his group encounter swarms of bigger humanoid "Things" that slowly rip apart Beta team as Blake rescues a soldier called Colin, the only survivor from Alpha Team, and learns of a government conspiracy with a company called Gen Inc. (Genetics Incorporated). This corporation conducted experiments on the alien life-form and isolated a microbiological form of The Thing called the "Cloud virus" to be used in biological warfare. Eventually the Thing begins to infest everyone involved at the company's secret research facility in Antarctica. Blake learns that Whitely was behind the breakout the whole time, even injecting himself with a dose of "Cloud Virus B4" strain. With a new group of survivors, Blake fights his way inside the secret base battling numerous black ops and gruesome Thing creatures before facing the horrific mutation of Whitely, taking place at the site of the alien's crashed spaceship. During the last battle with the gigantic Thing monster, Blake has the assistance of a helicopter pilot, revealed to be R.J. MacReady (Kurt Russell), the hero and survivor from Carpenter's film.Screenshoots :
