Graphically “The Thing” is very good – it’s 
  not on the level of other FPS coming out soon such as Unreal Tournament 2003 or 
  perhaps even that of Max Payne a year ago (although the characters here are far 
  more detailed) but it does do the job of showing off the atmosphere that the movie 
  excelled in. There is some good use of textures in places, bumpmapping and some 
  pretty good lighting (again not all the time); torches shining in the dark, flares 
  look impressive – but sometimes your torch can look a little feeble and is fiddly 
  to use as you have to switch to the static first person mode to move it around 
  to look into different areas. If this could have been done with you staying in 
  3rd person mode like Silent Hill, it would have been much better.