the WORST Terminator game of all time

Terminator Salvation may not be the WORST Terminator movie, but the game might be the worst...
It's like stepping into a 2009 videogame time capsule.
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[@MindPulp]

Turdminator Salvation is certainly a 2009 videogame... 👍

[@BATMANvr47]

Bully chapter 3 when

[@Wenzo404]

L+ratio+rip

[@BATMANvr47]

​@@Wenzo404the f### do you mean

[@PhoenixGamerxx96]

Burger King Kart Racing was so bad that it was fun to play.

[@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3]

Play terminator resistance by the same creator as the Rambo game!

[@tobiasrieper384]

Everyone I knew just played this game for the easy platinum trophy and then immediately got rid of it.

[@johnmoore1495]

Yeah all you had to do was beat the game on hard, all the other trophies were Gold for just beating each mission.

[@thientuongnguyen2564]

@@johnmoore1495 There's only like, 12 achievements (or trophies) for playing this "game". Seriously, it took until Resistance to have a decent Terminator tie-in game and none of it about playing as a tanky RoboCop-esque soldier.

[@fabioferrari4098]

Here I am 😂

[@viperhiggins7937]

@@johnmoore1495YOU WOULDNT SHOOT A GUY WITH GLASSES WOULD YOU??!

[@Hjudjehshshde]

video game trophys make -5000 sense

[@paddee0]

Finally, Common getting fucking appreciation he deserves, loved him since the game launched

[@BOMBheadDOM]

Earlier Common is gold 🎵 👌

[@TheGary108]

Ah yes, the Terminator game mom says we have at home when I want to get Terminator Resistance.

[@jemlesvideo]

More over, looking like Fallout NV when you squint your eyes !

[@Woodlandwalker]

I didn't realise that Commander Shepherd was in a Terminator game.

[@JacoboelGil2008]

How Christian Bale went from being Patrick Bateman to Batman to the Terminator in the same decade is beyond me

[@AsgardianQueen]

Christian Bale was also Gorr The God Butcher in Thor Love And Thunder.

[@JacoboelGil2008]

@@AsgardianQueen yeah but that was up until 2022. I'm talking about the 2000s

[@AsgardianQueen]

@@JacoboelGil2008 Okay

[@darianstarfrog]

​@@AsgardianQueenyea, but that movie was trash..no one saw it 😂

[@Eggy2276]

He’s not the terminator

[@DoodleThis]

Man I remember X-Play doing an ENTIRE episode trying to hype this game, interviewing ppl and then the next episode they basically crapped all over this game.

[@SNOWDUDE13]

Ah Xplay......I miss those days 😢

[@nd9814]

For pre-teens in the early 2010s this game was a Gears of War stand in if your parents didn’t let you buy M rated games.

[@vxpal]

That description fits perfectly to my cousin back then lmao

[@wreckedstamps3025]

They made fun of “BAR” but there’s a bar in OKC with a blue neon sign that just says “BAR”

[@dasdiesel3000]

I've seen a few of those, been in a couple, too -- never disappointed, either

[@deadxwreckoning]

I remember renting this from Blockbuster as a kid as this was one of the earliest games to receive trophy support on PS3, and you could get the platinum in one playthrough, apparently a lot of people did the same from what I remember. Pretty much all this game was worth for

[@skynet0912]

To be fair to the game, the early Skynet robots were pretty low tech... It's only when we get to the late in-universe 2020s and 2030s during the later stages of the war, that Skynet started developing much tougher armor and harder hitting weapons. Which is why during many other games, including the rather okay, if not outright good Terminator Resistance, the resistance and especially Tec-Com started capturing and developing their own plasma weapons to combat the new and tougher armor... So they started very low tech, and gradually went into plasma weapons developed by Skynet, and eventually captured and copied by the resistance in a constant arms race. The first REALLY hard to kill Terminator that required this shift was the T-700 series, after Skynet ironed out the bugs and weakness of the older T series hardware.

[@fritzthedog007]

Never understood the entire timeline, why didn't Skynet just gas the entire planet, would that have been too easy?

[@skynet0912]

@@fritzthedog007 As far as i remember, it has come up in some of the extended media a few times... Most biological agents were destroyed in the nuclear war and following decades of exposure to the elements, and Skynet does use chemical attacks frequently, but just like with any other weapon, chemical agents are fragile, limited in range, and easy prey for the resistance, who also worked tirelessly to gather intel on what Skynet was doing, and they often succeded in sabotaging those experiments. So Skynet kinda concluded that pumping out an army of metal with weapons was more efficient in the end, but thanks to Connor, they were able to find flaws in those as well, and Skynet ran out of new options by the time the resistance destroyed it and won the war.

[@roguerifter9724]

The 700s weren't that tough. I remember after Reese had blasted the T-800 through the window of Tech Noir with his Shotgun he thought that would have been enough to take out a T-700. He wasn't sure he was facing a T-800 until he realized it was taken out by that..

[@skynet0912]

@@roguerifter9724 The 700s were pretty tough, and the 750 model was even more so, at least by 1984 standards... Reese knew from the start that his weapons would at most slow it down, but his main priority was finding Sarah in the first place, and avoid the terminator until they might be able to stop it

[@roguerifter9724]

@@skynet0912 Again Reese thought a few Shotgun blasts and getting knocked through the club window could kill a T-700. That even being a reasonable possibility indicates the leap in toughness between the T-700s and T-800s, and logically the T-600s, the primary Terminator model in the Salvation movie and the most advanced one to appear in the game (The game story is a prequel to the movie) would be easier to kill with conventional weapons. Edit: Slight mistake on my part Reese didn't think the shotgun blasts and going through the window would be enough to kill a T-700. Instead he thought the shotgun hits he scored before the Terminator got up with the Uzi could be enough to kill a T-700. If that killing a T-700 is even remotely feasible, and I see no reason to believe Reese didn't have a good idea what it took to kill a T-700, then a T-600 should be easier to kill. Which fits both the Salvation movie and the game where pre-Judgment Day Assault Rifles are seen being used to take out T-600s

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

I still have this game, i completed once, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. The whole flanking thing in the game is supposed to be from cover to cover, the tutorial doesn't really explain the mechanics well.

[@randallsfortressofsolitude3297]

my 17 year old cat frankie sadly passed away the 30th of last month and it is very hard to move on and i just really want to thank you both for making my day and gets though these tough times

[@azzurriblue65]

RIP Frankie. What a legend.

[@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784]

My dog died at the end of Jan this year (She was 12), it sucks but it gets easier with time, your just appreciate your friends / neighbours pets a lot more after.

[@KahlessTheUnforgettable]

God Bless Frankie 😺

[@randallsfortressofsolitude3297]

@@azzurriblue65 thank you everyone for being so nice

[@randallsfortressofsolitude3297]

@@KahlessTheUnforgettable thank you so much

[@RPGLover87]

15 Huh, when blair screamed the metal falling did the Terminator "dundundun - du-dun" sound. Also those guys at 18 minutes are clearly Strogg, completely different to a terminator.

[@ThePortuguesePlayer]

Same opinion.

[@STARWARS-GUY33]

The terminator wants to see Paul Allen's card lol

[@punk_rock_music_teacher]

This was the last video game I rented from a Blockbuster

[@gerrymcwilliam]

I remember my dad and I playing this.

[@MartinRodriguez-oi5qq]

This game is a prequel to the movie. Command still exists, Connor meets Barnes and Barnes loses his brother. In the movie, Barnes shot at captured Marcus saying, “for my brother” or some shit. T H E M O R E Y O U K N O W

[@expendableindigo9639]

Also Blair was in the movie and definitely not dead lol.

[@ghostraddical1981]

We gotta see terminator dawn of fate on the ps2

[@yoshibrothers9982]

A game which is heavily flawed, yet one that I grew up with. I'm almost ungodly good at it in spite of its repetition and jank. I also have an odd soft spot for it.

[@volsavious2319]

Im really sick and not doing well. You guys really help me feel a little bit better

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

After discovering this channel, I binged EVERY video so it's nice to have a new one again!😁

[@BlueShift2000]

Why didn't xou told us? My... Turtle Beach gaming headset ran out of power mid battle.

[@PepperDog76]

I can’t believe Turtle Beach didn’t receive proper mourning, he deserves a place a of honor. Simulated 5.1 Dolby is a gift from the future and should be recognized.

[@resonantdock]

I remember enjoying this game alot as a kid.

[@jackprant5734]

Thank you guys so much for these vids. Brings me so much comfort. Weird to say but this type of commentary on a game is just the best.

[@badmanseed8936]

God damn i wish you guys would show the entire game, the abrupt end to the vids always kicks my balls in

[@jwithington9347]

There's a rage inducing section of this game where your forced to fight 2 endoskeletons with pipe bombs. There is no health regeneration for most of the section, no real cover and ammo is scarce. I literally had to pass it on dumb luck when the AI messed up

[@TropentigerI]

Have you guys ever thought about making an uncut Channel? We need the full blast on games like Garfield 2

[@Zice033]

Me during a recent Arnold Schwarzenegger Hyperfixation: Boy, I wish Mind Pulp would do a Terminator game! *finger on Monkey’s Paw curls*

[@samanthamarkle6923]

12:23 It's General Shepherd!

[@jasonlee186]

You mean Commander Shepard?

[@deniskovac2489]

Worst? Damn I liked it. It had actual crushing and damage physics. I don't care if roid man was in it.

[@chris-ee1ur]

That metro joke made me miss that game much 😭

[@Gruntvc]

There's a new Metro game, but it's a VR game.

[@gamervet4760]

2:35 That's just L.A. I visited once in 2009. 😬

[@PutYourQuarterUpGaming]

😂 I can witness that one too. Parents had place Palm Springs, one day Pa figures “let’s go check out LA”. After finally get through all the fing traffic (and I thought Vancouver was bad), after driving around for a hour or two, literally just like “so…back to Palm Springs?” What a dump of a city, and going off my friends trip last summer, only gotten worse.

[@AA30996502]

I’m not gonna lie. My little preteen brain remembered this game being absolutely awesome these memories might just get shat on

[@XToasty1993]

Great Video as always. Would love to see you guys play Jet Li's Rise to Honor, for the PS2 :)

[@jasonjones7461]

Move aside "PS Poo" the "PS Pee" has made itself known! I ain't your darlin Peter!. Well I ain't your PETER darlin!

[@ghostraddical1981]

I mean didn't the t800 in final battle with John is basically Arnold's character just without the skin

[@lutherheggs451]

No it had Arnold's skin. He was supposed to be in the movie but he was busy at the time and was unable to actually be there

[@alexello1189]

7:46 this is as far as I got as a kid. Something about being unable to track the targets effectively / my bullets not registering on the terminator driven van

[@alegomanYTPs]

I was literally waiting for a video from this channel then I started working on my ytp, guess it can wait a few more minutes!

[@alegomanYTPs]

well that was poo, there wasn't even anything purple in the entire game, the blue x button is the closest to purple this game will ever get!

[@adamrobertscreative]

“Taking some responsibility” haha I actually mocked the phrase just like you did soon as heard that 😅

[@GamerArcad]

Y'all should play with Terminator Resistance or Terminator 3: The Redemption. Those are hands-down the best Terminator games!

[@spatialdistortion223]

"Best" isn't their schtick though...

[@GarC170]

He instantly went to hockey helmet that’s how you know he’s Canadian…….. or Finnish

[@MindPulp]

I am indeed Canadian hahaha

[@dasdiesel3000]

I was waiting for the fellas to sing 🎶"Kurt Co-bain, Kurt Cobaaainn" in the purple reign cadence right after 9:17

[@pinkhamstercult]

You should either play Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction or The Punisher on PS2 at some point. Those games are both hot murder.

[@Retromicky82]

You mentioned prison break now you gotta play that game 😂

[@gamervet4760]

2:49 😮 That's how he got his role as Chris Redfield!

[@joelvaldez8688]

Fun fact, at one point Cliff Bleszinski (Gears of War 1-3) was making an Aliens game where you play as Rebecca Jordan from "Aliens" all grown up. It was canceled and we got Isolation which... I want both. Anyways, I would love a Cliffy B Terminator game as well.

[@richardives4811]

Please play the The Beverly Hills cop game from the PS2 next 😂

[@cintronzilla4004]

I remember there being an arcade game of the exact same movie at my nearest Chuck e Cheese, it was really cinematic but outdated still. This was circa 2013-2016

[@mcbrodz1663]

I remember those, remember it being hard as fuck

[@_GRAMPS]

This game is definitely game of the year.

[@chefzand6607]

im not sure why i had this game as a kid, but i got stuck extremely early lol

[@SprussellSpout_Gaming]

Terminator 1 and 2 chef's kiss! Everything else afterwards just name a Gordon Ramsay insult and it fits

[@KingJadInfiniteHope]

I can watch the 3rd one any day and it’s perfectly fine to me. after that tho…

[@bransolo9469]

The one good thing many players plays this is so you can get the platinum trophy and all the gold trophies by just playing the entire game on the hardest difficulty. Play it on the hardest difficulty and you'll get all the trophies in just 1 playthrough.

[@Isgonesomewhere]

I remember this game as more of a gamerscore farm than anything about or anything related to this game. Other than that it does exist

[@nathankeene9236]

Best Terminator game ever: Binary Domain. Don't give me that look. It might as well be Terminator.

[@Retromicky82]

I remember playing a old dos terminator game in the 90s made by Bethesda it was impressive for the time with a semi open world.....then we come to this lol

[@benm5970]

Y’know, given how normal bullets don’t seem to do anything to Terminators wouldn’t the smart thing to do would be to just exclusively use explosive weapons like rocket launchers and grenades against them?

[@normalgraham]

Or maybe just not jump out of cover directly into their sight line, exposing your fragile body to machine gun fire just so you can pop off a couple of ineffectual rounds like that one dude in the video? These characters are so painfully stupid it actually irritates me

[@jake90052]

I love this game. I can understand why people don't, but everytime I fight the HK and "the terminator" theme bust's out. Yeah 🤘 it deserves it's place "Connor!...I have faith in you"

[@V4ckro]

The John Connor face looking like David Mason from COD Black Ops 2😭🙏

[@mrg2155]

Where did they get that raspberry music with the cowbell?? It’s hilarious and I know I heard it in a game from when I was young, like donkey Kong 64 or something

[@MandoMarsi13]

I can't believe that we still don't have a good Terminator game where I can play as a terminator killing humans or getting reprogrammed etc.

[@HeyShnubby]

The Infiltrator mode of Terminator Resistance isn't very long, but it's the best experience of playing as a Termiator we are likely to get

[@MandoMarsi13]

@@HeyShnubby I don't like that game at all.

[@houstonmunoz9862]

You can tell there is a good movie somewhere in there cause it was cool it was set into the actual future all the other films talked about ..

[@VicDavila]

I remember getting this game in the Blockbuster rental games for sale bin. Don't know how I sat through it from start to finish in retrospect.

[@randomfordmustang2877]

Poor Mind Pulp... He hasn't played Terminator 2 on the Mega Drive.

[@caglover]

character looks like Shepherd from Mass Effect

[@slxgchrxst.8583]

weidly enough, this game and T2 were my childhood games on the xbox 😢

[@TheVideomaster64Reborn]

I used to hate Terminator salvation but now I like it

[@cryofroze_2552]

Fun fact- Arnold swarcheneggar, the Austrian immigrant, was dubbed in the Austria/germany release bc he has the Austrian equivalent to an Appalachian accent. Ever since I learned this, ive wanted to make a movie about a time traveling back water moonshiner

[@evankern5219]

Halo 3 came out two years before this game. It practically looks next-gen, compared to this weirdness. I didn’t even get as far in as MP did in this video 😂😂😂

[@xenawrenn7998]

🤣 15:42 this made me laugh so hard. My first headset was a turtle beach and I thought it was hot shit at the time lol

[@IceKoldKilla]

I remember playing the Terminator Salvation arcade game at the now closed Namco Funscape here in London. Me and my brother had to get a refund. It was running at like 5fps, not even joking. And we obviously lost in 3 seconds. We got extra tokens luckily. I feel they knew it was shit. And mins later we saw it off. Clearly it was too shit snd caused issues and complaints.

[@chrislondo2683]

Same. The local bowling alley where I live used to have one. Played it back in 2016 and 2018.

[@Grom-rl8bm]

I'm sorry. For being British, not for the arcade but thay sucks too

[@darianstarfrog]

​@@Grom-rl8bmcould be worse..could be American😂

[@eyeballjay]

mate I used to play the shit out of this at my local bowling alley as a teen, I think i had the game for xbox as well but it wasn't nearly as fun when you're not in a room full of loud noises with your besties

[@kylewest4212]

This just unlocked a core memory of me and my little brother playing this almost 10 years ago 😂

[@liveredrum2619]

They were actually in the process of making another one of these games, but they terminated it.. 🥁📀

[@Tubular_Sox]

Love the Metro reference Great game series Hope to read the books one day

[@iAmPimmiCue]

I bought the first book and started reading it, but never finished it. From what I've heard they're quite different to the games

[@Tubular_Sox]

@RecentCobra I'm sure they are. I like reading new things though. I may not even like the books, but won't know till I try, right?

[@princeire7486]

Terminator Salvation the film was at least smart enough to realize, "Hey, Terminator 2 did the Terminator formula about as well as it can possibly be done, so maybe instead of being a pale imitation of that we should try something new with the franchise?" Unfortunately they still proceeded to botch the execution.

[@jamesbrock3584]

I remember playing this as a kid and i couldnt figure out how to vault over cover and i got stuck on the very first part😂

[@venomfoxgames]

Still to this day the easiest Platinum trophy I've ever achieved!

[@treytucker9948]

Play oblivion, the achievement are literally just gaining ranks in the guild's. Which is easy as hell.

[@raptorrex4438]

She’s already dead John she’s already dead 😭😂

[@oogliebooglie8796]

You know this games gonna be something when flying enemies are the first enemy types introduced

[@robbieratcliffe2242]

The worst game I’ve ever played was Ride to Hell: Retribution

[@merakimelodies8931]

“Looks like that HK rebooted.”-as a pew-pew fan, I immediately went to, “Heckler&Koch?!”, and the split-second afterward was like, “No: that’s my pew-pew addiction talking.”. 😂

[@deathcold_longplaysua4846]

I kinda liked this game back in my teenage years when it came out. But then I played PC version and I had weak computer for this game, or game was not optimized very well, and it lagged so badly that, in some moments it worked in 5 FPS. But later I figured out how to dig in to some ini files inside the game, turned off some filtering and stuff and it started to work better. Like from 5 FPS it boosted up to 30 just like that. And it looked, for that time, good. I mean, I even somehow managed to turn off brown filter. Also, if you guys need some none movie licensed game, then try a game called Damnation. I have not played it in decades but I remember to like it back in the days.

[@TopsyTriceratops]

Imagine if Blaire actually kept talking/ responding to the player even when she was dead on the ground. It'd be scary, but better than the nothing this game offers.

[@Shoebil]

15:11 The dramatic drums.

[@CinnamonToastKing]

Driver 1, I want to see their pain trying to beat the tutorial!

[@fredherbert7920]

You wrecked the caaar, maaaan!

[@noerodriguez8769]

When this game came out, I rented it and got my first Platinum trophy just by beating it on hard. It only took a day and I don't remember this game being this bad lol

[@peacemaster8117]

Random trivia but there's a TV/streaming show about Blair, called "Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series". They rendered the whole thing in the game engine. It looks dreadful.

[@yomartinyo]

If u think this is the worst go try the Terminator 3: War of the Machines game

[@CasualCOD]

You guys are so damn hilarious, I always laugh my ass off and feel like I'm with my brothers and the boys again. From the bottom of the heart, thank you for that

[@Minewald]

The opening already got me. By the way is there a Matrix Resurrections Game, with luck there is a "Hugo Smith" in that one.

[@CheesleyStudios]

I think they should try the terrible Disney game “Disney’s magic mirror starring Mickey Mouse” for the GameCube

[@SVLYSI]

Somehow i liked the game as a child but im a fan of the movies too.

[@stiffygoats5337]

The turtle beach guy looked like tyler1 rip Tyler he served in the war against the terminators 😂

[@levinelson8697]

That's f&*king weird af. I just bought a Turtle Beach headset. And I'm obsessed with Radiohead

[@AsgardianQueen]

I have heard of the Terminator, but I only remember seeing the trailers for the 2015 and later movies.

[@AsgardianQueen]

So basiclly, just the last two.

[@AsgardianQueen]

But now that I think about it, I also remember seeing trailers for other movies I don't care about, like Chappie and Independence Day.

[@gamervet4760]

3:50 I remember them talking about this game when it was in development. They showed off Christian Bale's face, the shit M4, the destruction of the robots, and it was touted to be slightly open world with a mission style system. Looks like there was a license issue and a budget slash. Or remnants of a scrapped product. 🤷‍♂️ I just remember them trying to generate buzz.

[@sauciii4738]

Idk where else to say this but please play the games that Burger King released as part of kids meals back in the early 2,000s!

[@DDPX8]

Speaking of prison break there also a game for that

[@9800MacMal]

God no 😂😂

[@KezVanBeck]

I can only imagine how incredible that game will be

[@andykolb6502]

And Sopranos Video Game was also a Masterpiece😂😂

[@Leo.de99]

It’s not even bad

[@gracekim1998]

Wait really?!😂

[@cursedryona6265]

Not to say this game isn't stupid, but there's something ironic about them seeing the HK do a kamikaze attack after they critically damaged it, and then saying it was fine in earnest.

[@TheGodOfCheetosDTL]

How is the terminatir series ever going to recover form the death of Peter Griffin 😢