I would heartily recommend people play the first level or two. The next two or three levels are still pretty okay. But after that it becomes a very mediocre third person shooter and the ending is a dire slog. But those early bits? Oh, there are some genuinely interesting ideas in there. They aren't always executed on well but it's so interesting to see what they were going for. It's tragic that so much of what makes this game unique falls away the further in you get until eventually the only remnant of the squad mechanics is just that you occasionally need an engineer to open a door for you. There was, at some point, going to be a sequel to this but it got cancelled and I think that's really unfortunate because seeing a more refined and more fully realized version of this game's mechanics would be absolutely fascinating to see.

As an adaptation though, this thing is kind of a travesty? It actively undoes the ending of the movie and has some bits of lore that contradict some ideas about how The Thing functions. I think there's something to the idea of doing an adaptation game where you're visiting the ruins/aftermath of the movie and you, the player, understand what you see but your character doesn't and has to piece things together. But this game only briefly touches that and abandons it pretty quickly.