![]() “I remember the crash It killed most of this offshoot outright, but a little crawled from the wreckage: a few trillion cells, a soul too weak to keep them in check. In the seventh paragraph of “The Things,” the nameless creature that describes itself as, among several other titles, “the very hand by which Creation perfects itself,” reflects back on the excruciating pain it endured during the violent shipwreck that stranded it on our planet: Peter Watts published a short story called “The Things” in 2010 that retells the events of that film, except this time from the point of view of its titular monster. It seems to be shaping up to be a really cool game that flips the usual power dynamics successfully on their head.This isn’t the first time someone has tried this kind of switch in pop culture, let alone evoked comparisons to Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic. It feels quite powerful from the get-go to be able to take on a room full of armed guards but the upgrades and abilities add another level of energy to that god mode sense of destruction. ![]() You can effortlessly zip and zoom around the compound snatching up hapless humans as you go hurtling them into walls to a chorus of satisfying squelchs. The demo confirms how amazing the movement looked in this game from the teaser trailer. ![]() Watch them run in fear and stumble in panic as you explode into rooms growing in power as you evolve and adapt to your new hunting grounds. With the tables now adequately turned you stalk, consume and throw around like rag dolls your once oppressors who imprisoned you. Jumping into the tentacles of an amorphous creature of unknown origin you propel around a research facility shooting out red limbs of violent destruction in your wake. CARRION, a reverse horror game in which you play the monster, has launched a free Sneek Peek demo on Steam and it’s everything I expected it to be. ![]()
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