AKA: The Thing II John Carpenters The Thing met a frosty (I make no apologies for that pun) reception at the box office, which meant a sequel was pretty much out of the question. That might have been for the best, since it has one of the best ambiguous endings in cinema, and its hard to imagine a sequel living up to the original. It still received one in the form of The Thing in 2002, a survival horror/action game where a gruff soldier investigates the aftermath of the movie. The story is fairly ropey, and sees the hero getting caught up in government conspiracies straight out of The X-Files; the Cigarette Smoking Man himself Willam Davis even voices the villain. Still, the game is a faithful recreation of the original, and has a unique (for the time) fear/trust meter while you work with NPCs. Theres also some cool monsters and set-pieces, though it has annoying spikes in difficulty and other bugs. The game bravely resolves the ending of the film too; Childs froze to death in the snow, and MacReady appears at the end to help the player kill the final boss.