There's also the Murder mode in Garry's Mod which is similar in concept I think.

That would be pretty cool, though I think it's already been done before; there's a game called "Trouble in Terrorist town", where in there is 1 murderer (unknown to the rest of the players), who goes around killing people.

I suppose though that you can add a shape shifting mechanic, and anyone who gets killed is not allowed to communicate (so that the Thing is not exposed when it takes their form)

I love The Thing. One of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made, imo.

I have. It's an interesting concept, though sadly the community is a bit dead.
You really have to organize a game with a bunch of friends in order to get a match in.

I recently saw a preview of an indie game someone is making based on The Thing. Sadly, their art direction is anime. I can't think of anything worse than trying to make a horror based game of The Thing using tiny Japanese looking RPG characters and text bubbles too small to read. Horrible design decision.

The company that made The Thing had some preliminary art for a sequel. Looked pretty good and they were supposedly working on fixing the scripted burst outs that made the first game to whacky. Too bad Universal pulled the plug on the sequel before it got released.

That is unfortunately the case with many good games. Multiplayer is too complex to work on just public matches like your average COD can do.

Oh, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.
In fact, making the characters all cutesy and killing them off in a gruesome fashion would increase the horror and disturbing nature of the game.

See: Higurashi
Not that complex, considering how many MP games are capable of public matches.
See: TF2, LoL, Dota, Killing Floor, etc etc.

The thing about MP is that it's community dependent. The games I mentioned have a strong community, so they have strong MP. That's not quite the case with The Ship.

...however any of those can just be "hopped onto" and played "public". Certainly lol and dota benefit from people knowing what to do, but even they can be played and enjoyed without people really knowing what they are doing.

However, try something like Air Buccaneers without reading what youre supposed to do and most people get frusrated in the first match and never come back. which is shame.

Oh yeah, that's true.
A pity too, because The Ship can get pretty nuts.
I mean, you can beat a fool to death with a mannequin arm.

-Where are you buccaneers?

-On the side of my buckin head lady!

Sorry, couldn't resist :P

Speaking of the thing wish Cold Fear was on GOG. It was a decent game doesn't Ubisoft own the rights to it?

I wonder who owns the rights to The Thing, tho...

Cold Fear is a cool game and i really liked it as well. Browsed tru Ubi's PC games section but didn't saw it there so maybe they are no longer right holders?

Universal. I doubt they'll do much with the franchise though now that the 2011 prequel/reboot whatever didn't do very well at the box office. The '82 classic didn't either, so out of 2 movies and a video game, Universal is batting 1-2. The '82 movie is one of the greatest horror movies of all time, but sadly it's doubtful any future games or movies could recapture that lightning bolt.

Emob78 is most likely correct in saying Universal owns the right to The Thing. As for Cold Fear wikipedia says Ubisoft was the publisher so i assume they have the rights but then again wikipedia could be wrong.