Terminator: Resistance

While Rambo: The Video Game, an arcade rail shooter and literal rethread of the first three Rambo films, will always be infamous as one of the most horrifically bad movie-based video games in history (no hyperbole there), its developer, Polish Studio Teyon, may still have a bright future ahead of them since they have now proved with their new Terminator game that they do actually have some talent for making good games as well.

In all honesty, Terminator: Resistance is a decent but average game. However, the fact that Terminator games haven't been good at all since the late 90s makes this okay game such a pleasant surprise that, at least in the eyes of the fans, it may as well be a 'triple A' Terminator game.

What's good about it? The story more or less works, the characters are not too unmemorable, the few choices in the game do have consequences, the action is serviceable, and the level design is not all that bad either.

What's bad about it? The limited budget occasionally shows when it comes to the graphics (most characters' faces look bad as if they come from a game from some previous generation console), the acting is often bad (even the main character is voiced poorly), the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion-like dialogue can get tiresome, and there is no variety when it comes to the gameplay (what you see is what you get). However, the graphics are fine for the most part, the voice actors who are good carry the game successfully, the dialogues do make the otherwise bland-looking characters somewhat interesting, and there is still more variety here than in any other Terminator game in recent memory.

What's neither here nor there? The game contains up to two short-ish sex scenes (full first person sex scenes with strategically covered nudity) if the player (the protagonist is a guy) chooses to take that route with two female side-characters.

Bottom line? All fans of either The Terminator franchise or Sci-Fi action in general should check this game out. If it makes them some money, maybe the game studio's next project will be a real classic considering what a leap forward this game is compared to the justifiably maligned so-incredibly-bad-it's-almost-good Rambo game.

First off, to refute another review on here, you CAN shoot Terminators in the game. And you kind of have to, unless you're stockpiling explosives. That reviewer clearly didn't play much of the game.

When I heard that Teyon, developer of the not-so-great Rambo video game, had acquired the license to create a Terminator game, I prepared for a similar experience; an on-the-rails shooter with ugly visuals and chock full of voice clips from the movies. However, this game turned out much better, and honestly, I enjoyed it much more than Terminator: Dark Fate, the franchise's most recent film.

The game's story puts you in the shoes of a Resistance member in the midst of the war against Skynet, the very war seen in a few scenes of the first two Terminator films. And not to mention, this game actually ties directly into the plots of those films and is full of references to them, so one can tell that this game was indeed created by fans of the films. But overall, the plot here was nothing amazing, but enjoyable for Terminator fans. While some would say it's a short game (took me about 8 hours total, including side content), but I felt it was just the right length.

The voice acting is okay, I suppose. There aren't any standout performances, but there also weren't any that made me cringe. The graphics aren't anything to write home about, but they're a major improvement over Rambo's. There aren't any celebrity likenesses used in this game, so the "that looks nothing like Stallone" issue Rambo had was avoided.

As for the gameplay, it's pretty much standard-fare first-person-shooter. It's not a broken buggy mess or anything, but it can get pretty repetitive and monotonous, which I suppose is the main reason I didn't rate it much higher. That, and it's not particularly amazing on any fronts, aside from the fact that it is much, much better than their previous attempt at a film license. Speaking of that, I assume Teyon will do another film license next... I'll hope for RoboCop.

I've been a fan of the terminator franchise since I watched terminator when I was a kid in the 80s number 1 being my favourite dark gritty story, so finally playing a game that puts me in that world creating the feel of what made t1 and t2 so good is a real achievement if you take the game what it is a terminator game for terminator fans yes it feels a little clunky in the controls but it's not aaa game an there is a minor niggle here and there but for people who have been wanting a good terminator game for years after playing endless bad ones we finally got one a good one so grab your pipe bombs and plasma rifle kick back and enjoy, for the hate this game gets I conclude the haters weren't fans of the films probably to young to get what this game and the films are so ignore them, this games for fans of terminator not battle royal mmo kids

Bought this game on sale ($19) and greatly enjoyed it. The people at Teyon clearly love the first 2 Terminator films and have learned from their previous game flops. Animations are a bit stiff (for faces and hands) and the texture fidelity isn't the best, but the plasma guns feel so good to shoot.

It's not the prettiest game but it's so much fun to play and good story to boot. A lot of nice nods to the movies as well scattered throughout the game. I found myself getting goosebumps often from things that I found, sound and music I heard and much more. The game also plays very similarly to fallout 3/4. Can't recommend it enough. Hats off to the developers.