Reviewing Terrible Terminator Games

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0:00 Intro & Games Overview
03:59 Terminator: Dawn of Fate
15:27 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
23:24 Terminator 3: The Redemption
35:45 Terminator Salvation
45:14 Outro & Amazingly Awesome Patrons

[@Farmeryeti]

I played Redemption to death as a kid, mainly I think because the battle-damage effects were something I was really impressed with as a 10 year old.

[@definitelynotpc9814]

That and the ability to drive is what caught my attention

[@WTFisTingispingis]

To be fair it looked really cool.

[@xCobraCommanderx]

I’m 40 and I’m still impressed. The quick time events are perfect. The visual quality of levels is great as well especially the future war scenes. I also loved the fact that every level had alternate routes you had to master. My favorite is the end flying level. It feels gratifying to actually pull off these stunts. Something most games with these styles lack. Terminator 3 Redemption is still the best Terminator game we ever got. It should have been an Arcade game. It really captured the feel of an Arcade shooter on a console. It’s also one of the best Xbox Original titles and movie game titles for the system next The Thing. Which is also a fantastic under appreciated title.

[@trobriandstorm]

@@xCobraCommanderx yeah, this game was pretty looked back to ps2 era, i got hooked on it cause its visuals too when i was a kid.

[@krono5el]

totally remember running the demo a over and over just to see the battle damage : P

[@naquingreen1603]

Fear Factory did the soundtrack for Terminator dawn of fate Which is actually poetic considering the band's major influence is The Terminator movies and how most of their songs are about the dangers of Technology.

[@FutBoy281]

They're the best part of the game lol

[@naquingreen1603]

@@FutBoy281 They also did a unreleased track for Rainbow Six Lockdown Fear Factory - Contagion.

[@thewormiesthotel]

Maybe that’s why they got them

[@naquingreen1603]

@@thewormiesthotel yep, also this game is the only Terminator media that has Fear Factory doing the music.

[@naquingreen1603]

@@thewormiesthotel Which might be a good thing especially considering how Terrible the other Terminator movies are (except The Sara Connor Chronicles)

[@Silo1195]

you forgot the best part about Terminator: Redemption. There is a dedicated button just for Arnie one-liners. No joke! I laughed my ass off when I played. It has "Jason!" shout from Heavy Rain vibes

[@HMAcademia]

I loved that lol. "download this!"

[@ReSiStAsPEcT]

The terminator 3 game has a soft spot in my heart, one day I was looking at a gamepro magazine and saw it there, asked my ma for it and she said no. Then that same day my godmother bought it for me. She didnt even know I wanted it, she bought it like a week prior to me reading that magazine. RIP Tata

[@adrianwiles1]

Awwwwww......

[@bleachedtiedye]

She time traveled to back in time knowing you wanted it

[@chrismassey7783]

Cool story bro

[@thegreatbritishgamer751]

Terminator resistance is such a underrated gem of a game, just putting it out there.

[@EnclaveRemnantFanboy-118]

I agree

[@silenthound8116]

My brother and I sunk hard hours into that game. Hard as nails and nonstop with the tense action.

[@andrewhudson7108]

Can’t wait for the Robocop game to come out.

[@darrancoyle8394]

Absolutely. Shame the dlc was only for the PS.

[@6581punk]

They added so much to that game. One of the "patches" was pretty much an entire new game mode.

[@filipvadas7602]

Ironically , Terminator Redemption is my personal favorite. Played the everliving crap out of that game as a kid so seeing you dunk on it was hillarious. That being said, your criticisms are totally valid. The game doesn't have difficulty spikes it has difficulty CLIFFS and there are way too many trial and error sections while also there not being enough checkpoints

[@paulrivera5864]

I agree I loved it

[@OneHotWolfie]

Same, it was my favourite too - it was janky as all hell and the difficulty on some levels was dumb, but I loved all the cutscenes (especially the last one).

[@SecuR0M]

Redemption was great. I tried to play the BF1942 clone and it was so bad though.

[@brenetssss]

Redemption is definetly not the worst game on the list this dude is trippin

[@SecuR0M]

@@brenetssss For sure. It's genuinely one of the better Terminator games. The new Terminator game based on the Men of War knockoff Syrian Warfare might be good too.

[@TinyBoatConcerts]

I legitimately loved salvation as a kid. It gave me the last of us kind of vibes way before that was a thing, and I still remember being sad about some elevator scene in the game that kills a character that was important. This game was a gem for me and I'll always love it 😂

[@samg6980]

“It shouldn’t have been Angie back there!” Me too bro fuckin loved this game literally bought an Xbox 360 just so I can play this game

[@RamZnation]

SalvTion had a good arcade. The console got bit annoying after a whole since every level had the same song (different rendition of Terminator theme)

[@StudioNostalgik]

I remember loving Dawn of Fate as a kid. Sure, it was super flawed but I loved how the enemies changed from clunky cheap machines to full on terminators.

[@killerkendro]

I also liked. I remember it getting good reviews at the time too

[@sethgardner4297]

Terminator Resistance is a great game and deserves more recognition. Best thing the Terminator franchise has got in decades

[@raxsavvage]

for real

[@Absolynth]

It's pretty cool to see people have come around to it I felt like I was the only one defending it for a minute back there XD it was rougher at launch tho to be fair.

[@hopelessedgelord]

God our standards are low if that's great

[@sethgardner4297]

@@hopelessedgelord Terminator hasn’t had a good thing since T2. So a good game that has heart and soul that’s not a corporate cash grab is pretty great.

[@sethgardner4297]

@@Absolynth Same here man. Felt like the only one for awhile

[@dangreene5813]

"The worst game in this list goes to the next one. Terminator Redemption." I have never disagreed with a statement more in my entire life.

[@marcmarc6591]

Same here. Of all the games besides resistance, redemption is in my opinion one of the best terminator game

[@iancruz6617]

Et alone of tue of the best and capture the terminator films experience like nonother and capture what the future war looks like.

[@superstarthomas]

It probably made him the maddest thats why he hated it. lol

[@Mantis4]

@@superstarthomas true i found it weird that he said so many times how fun it was and then also that its the worst game on this list lol

[@hereticapostate9560]

@@iancruz6617 learn to spell

[@idinleis3411]

The Terminator 3 cover with Arnold smiling is soooo Hilarious 😂

[@AC-hj9tv]

Lolol I wish they actually made that

[@Chives1797]

Bro it killed me 😂

[@rodolfot63]

I haven’t even started the video i saw the thumbnail and starting laughing my ass off haha

[@masterofbloopers]

Dawn of Fate was one of my childhood games. My grandfather (God rest his soul) had a PS2 with a couple of games for it, one of them being Dawn of Fate. I remember enjoying it quite a bit. Then again, I liked just about every game I played as a kid. My time with the game ended when the disc fell off the shelf and my grandmother stepped on it in the dark.

[@Virtus_1994]

My favorite Terminator game. If you have a computer you can play it with PCSX2, its a PS2 emulator. Works very well

[@artbk]

I imagined your grandma stepping on the disc like the Terminator 1 scene with robot crushing the skull with it's foot. I'm sorry the game got broken tho.

[@methanedirigible]

‘The disc fell off the shelf’ - if you’re one of those people who left CDs and DVDs laying around and not in a case… it was totally deserved.

[@trinidad510]

​@@methanedirigible the case wouldn't protect them from getting stepped on. The cases were made of thin plastic, so you could easily break the disc through the case if you stepped on it

[@Shinobi33]

​@@methanedirigibledamn you're hateful. He was a kid

[@isaacmayer-splain8974]

Terminator: Salvation the arcade game is actually rather good and surprisingly well balanced despite being an arcade game.

[@jothain]

@IceCat7 well he isn't really supposed to mention it, considering video title. Reviewing terrible Terminator games.

[@jothain]

@IceCat7 well yeah. I was surprised that ie.bethesda titles weren't mentioned,before I saw that bad in title. That in mind there was at least one really bad dos game title which would've deserved to me mentioned too.

[@Anonymous-73]

Oh my god I remember playing that game so much It’s definitely a 9.7 outta 10

[@marvalcomicsfan123]

Terminator Salvation: The Arcade Game, the game that you can always find in a Regal Cinema.

[@xxiSHTAr9000x]

I made it to the top of the leader board once, and the harvester only killed me 17 times!

[@BugsyFoga]

It’s pretty fascinating just how many terminator games were made in the 2000s.

[@conorburke1999]

Four isn't that extreme. Look at how many games Dragon Ball Z has gotten before, during and after that time.

[@Rozz1015]

2000s era was a really weird time for games lol

[@metalbrainmextrememetalent6810]

There were terminator movies coming out. I’m not sure how it’s fascinating to have games come out while the movies are coming out.

[@kvltizt]

It’s the perfect IP for a video game and yet it’s almost always terribly executed

[@MrMorrison226]

and how none of them were good

[@-_deploy_-]

The terminator 3 redemption game really was part of my childhood. The truck chase was REAAAALLY difficult for me and my dad when I was a kid

[@marianopena7872]

Terminator Resistance was dope. Rough around the edges, for sure, but so much love and care was put into it. Felt like an game made by fans, for the fans.

[@blacktick6171]

Why are you writing about a terminator since this film is not about the terminator?

[@NthReview]

I never understood why they needed more than two Terminator movies and that's it. It is just not a franchise that suppoorts much more than that but they kept making more and more.

[@gameboi20]

“We got to have money”: the creator

[@MopSpadowski]

Exactly. The first Terminator is my favorite movie of all time. T2 is great. Everything else ranges from decent to garbage. Unnecessary from a story point of view.

[@MrNegativecreep07]

I still wish they'd made a proper film set in the future war. Salvation was ok but far too glossy, mankind was supposed to be on the brink of extinction, not flying helicopters straight into Skynet. But with the success of Prey, maybe we will get a lower budget, more focussed film.

[@wildwest1832]

just a cheap cash grab like any other popular series. If the same guy cameron made T3 maybe it could been good, but nothing lasts forever. Your better off leaving classics alone

[@Phantom.Gaming64]

It's the typical case of cash-grab, banking on the success of the previous films, mainly the success of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. You ask me, they should have ended it on a high note, and not make Terminator 3 or any more sequels for that matter.

[@sergeantmalon9007]

One thing I gotta mention, Terminator Salvation recycles a bunch of stuff from Grin's other TPS that came out around the same time, Wanted: Weapons of Fate, a passable shooter but really short. They also developed that Bionic Commando reboot around the same time as well, during that dark age of Capcom.

[@podyjr101]

Plus after Grin shut down, the founders Ulf and Bo Anderson went on to start Overkill Studios, which made the Payday franchise and a bunch of gigantic failures. Like Overkill's The Walking Dead, a game so bad that it was delisted around a year after release.

[@resid3nt3v1l]

As a kid bionic Commando was alot of fun and easy

[@MegaDman16]

Bionic Commando Rearmed was their greatest achievement.

[@ugolattanzio9152]

I thought i was the only one who ever played that Bionic Commando reboot back in the day, I thought it was just a dream

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

@@MegaDman16 Bionic Commando Rearmed was the success that made me care, but the big issue is that, looking back, they basically got to cheat on that one. The NES version of BC was already considered a classic for good reason - they just got to take a proven game and add features and new graphics to it. They did a good job with that, but like, half the work is done for you in that case. When it came to them developing their own stuff they really just did not have what it took. Bionic Commando 2K9 was the biggest disappointment in gaming for me because it's always two steps away from being great but they keep messing it up. The story has points of intrigue but then goes absolutely insane-o in the final act. The core gameplay of swinging and shooting is actually very good, but they put you in generally too small, too linear levels where such an ability is basically wasted (and gated by the annoying radiation death invisible walls). The have a decent set of weapons, but not enough differing enemy types to use them against. The first boss fight is actually pretty good, but then every other battle is absolute garbage. And worst of all, the multiplayer mode was actually completely amazing . . . but the rest of the game was so middling and dull no one played it. I remember getting into some awesome matches in those first couple of weeks after the game's release, and an Unreal Tournament/Quake 3/Boomer Shooter styled TDM shooter where everyone's swinging around on grappling hooks was the bee's goddamn knees . But by week 3 it was already taking too long to connect to matches and it was the obvious kiss of death.

[@jamoy1993]

Love how the shotgun is clearly a pump action yet he does that baton twirl with it like he does with the model 1887 shotguns in T2.

[@eggsavior8877]

Absolutely amazing video, except for that take on the music for Terminator: Dawn Of Fate. That seems like it’s the best part of the game. I dunno what planet you’re on where you think it sounds “dreadful” but it had some gnarly breakdowns. Sadly it was wasted on a terrible game. No hate at all to you, love your vids.

[@marcar9marcar972]

Like, sure it isn’t faithful but it sounds good

[@dividezero3565]

He wasn't really commenting on the quality of the music itself. He was more referring to the fact it doesn't really fit with Terminator, hence the musical comparison between the game and the first film.

[@sillygoose4263]

You have your opinion and he has his move along bud

[@Monafide3305]

Yeah, Terminator or not it was fire

[@Amadeus_Eisenberg]

He always picks on the music in a game like a shithead if it's some sort of metal.

[@TrueBlueMajikDewd]

"Does he even have a babymaker?" Yes. You can see Arnold's 3rd leg in the original movie.

[@orrthehunter]

Interesting enough the Human/machine hybrid did get created by Skynet eventually in the ending for the whole Terminator storyline which was a comic. Forgotten the name of the comic since it has been a long time but the story itself still remains a interesting one. At somepoint as the war went on, Skynet began to question her choices about starting the war with humanity, constantly trying to exterminate them, and even look back on why the war has not ended after all these years. Eventually concluding there was another path she could have taken which was a path for peace where humanity and machine coexist together. It took years for skynet and humanity to establish that peace but once they succeeded they created a utopia where humans and machine lives together as equals. Some humans even allow themselves to become hybrids for the benefits of improved immune systems and etc.

[@dhawkes5096]

I think you're referring to Dudley who appeared in the dark horse comics and ran through quite a few storylines starting with Tempest and finishing with Endgame

[@KasumiRINA]

When Skynet is smarter than russians... who somehow still think exterminating Ukrainians will somehow make us LIKE russia, eventually, and stop fighting... then again, nobody who fought them would agree to "utopia" living with murder-machines that killed your family and destroyed your home, so that's extremely far-fetched too. Mass Effect had the right idea with Council AND quarians never trusting AI after geth wars, but they HAD to create the ending where implanting murderbots into your head is the "best ending".

[@hereticalpaintjobs]

"The idea that a human would want to become part machine is hard to grasp" Sir the adeptus mechanicus would like to have a word with you

[@peterklick2385]

Dawn of Fate was a decent game, I don't think it's crappy by any means and it was clear the devs loved the source material. Redemption and Resistance were especially great for what they set out to do.

[@eurobtcwby]

If they remake that Terminator Dawn of Fate game they should get Carpenter Brut to compose the soundtrack.

[@brandonjenkins6381]

That's one I'd definitely love to see brought to modern consoles. Tweak the graphics and finish the storyline, still burnt out didn't get a sequel and left a hell of a sequel bait ending.

[@Anonymous-73]

Carpenter Brut on the Terminator soundtrack? I would pay good money to see that.

[@connyslayer4661]

Honestly that would be damn Awesome. Carpenter Brut is a great classic composer, perfect for classic retro Science fiction or adventure soundtracks overall. I would definitely buy a great Terminator Dawn of fate remake with Carpenter Brut as the composer.

[@WingsofHistory]

I had T3 rise of the machines on ps2 and it included the whole first level of redemption as a bonus feature, it was fun to me as a kid.

[@pho3nix-]

So much missed potential. A well made Terminator FPS / multiplayer back in the day would have been so awesome.

[@TheOtakuNinja69]

“Terminator: Resistance” was a very good / underrated game. I wish they would make a sequel or something. It’s actually my favorite Terminator game.

[@harlannguyen4048]

The devs are busy working on that Robocop game.

[@TheOtakuNinja69]

@@harlannguyen4048 I know, I’m very eager to play it. But when I said “Make a Sequel” I’m referring to being in the same universe as Terminator.

[@probot6515]

@@TheOtakuNinja69 How can you make a sequel to it, though?

[@TheOtakuNinja69]

@@probot6515 You could play as Kyle Reese and protect Sarah Connor from the 1st Terminator, play as the Terminator (T-101) or Sarah Connor through the story of Terminator 2: Judgement Day or maybe show more events you see in the future battles or event that you never got to see in the movies but that are in the Terminator comics.

[@Dakurar]

@@harlannguyen4048 that sounds fucking baller af

[@Phantom.Gaming64]

I actually liked Terminator: Dawn of Fate. It was my first Terminator game that I played when I was young teen, and I liked the action in it. Story was bit meh, but combat made up for it.

[@monsterhunter66]

Same

[@DavidXanitos]

Same, Its not great but I still sing its general praises for being unique and more importantly stand alone from any of the movies. Its not that bad in the end.

[@slayerboi7008]

I liked it. The fact you can beat down t 800s devil may cry style with show mo was something i enjoyed the most.

[@killzoneisa]

It all so had some good songs.

[@Clay3613]

I must've beaten that game 5 times back in the 2000s, the final level is appallingly hard though.

[@buak809]

Someone should really make a proper Terminator title where we re-live the events shown in T1 and/or T2 and we can eventually have an impact on how it will end and what will the future events be like. How awesome would it look like on UE4/UE5, neon signs, Tech Noir, gritty and dark themed Los Angeles set in the 80's, playing as Kyle Reese trying to reach Sarah asap doing side quests in the meantime and after beating the game we play as the Terminator trying to kill Sarah Connor (alternate ending)

[@joshk2533]

Terminator 3 was a game I used to play ALL the time as I kid, so much so I remember Terminator: Redemption having a demo on the T3 menu and being blown away with how *good* it looked. Certainly a nostalgia trip.

[@lzup407]

Dawn of Fate was one of the first games I got for ps2 when I was 7 or 8. It was hard but after a few years I beat it. Honestly with how dark and disorienting the camera was, it will always have a special place in my gaming memories

[@metalmugen]

I bought one of those 3 pack game bundles from Costco, it came with Dawn of Fate, the Alien vs Predator RTS and that glitchy ass Pirates of the Caribbean game in the OG Xbox. Good times.

[@LordofMovies91]

​@metalmugen if the Pirates game you mentioned had the voice of Johnny Depp, I've played all of them as well and still have them. Classics

[@rocznik83]

Terminator 3: The Redemption always felt to me like it was turned from an arcade rail shooter into a ps2 game at the last minute. And Salvation is a classic achievement whores treasure: buy/borrow it, score easy 1000g, sell it back.

[@ther3109]

Terminator Rules 34

[@fuzzypanda1684]

That hilarious "game over" at 34:43 kinda makes that game worth it.

[@Fei_PL]

The Terminator 2 movie is one of the most brilliant works of action cinema. In no other action movie genre have I seen such a profound development of each of the characters. Not to mention the amazing vibe of this movie ...

[@ddjsoyenby]

yup a true classic.

[@soul-om4id]

Don't forget stunts, they flew an actual helicopter under a freaking overpass. Amazing what they did.

[@KasumiRINA]

T2 is great, but let's not ignore what an achievement it was to make original Terminator on basically no budget and turn it into such a classic (plus the plot twist works, T2 doesn't have a new one, just wrapping the original's story for good and ending the franchise with no sequels possible ahem).

[@YasonYou]

Seeing the Daggerfall engine with Terminator assets is amazing.

[@vahlok1426]

Yeah, those Bethesda Terminator games are still awesome. They're open environment FPS games, with polygonal graphics, and fully functional vehicle segments as old as they are. That is incredible once again considering the time and all.

[@jonah2047]

@@vahlok1426 It was neat how the terminators had a HUD in multiplayer.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

@@vahlok1426 "fully functional" is a bit generous...

[@milesipka]

Hey, Gman... As a DIEHARD Terminator fan (in fact T2 is one of my favourite films - I first saw this awesome masterpiece at age six on a bootleg VHS while living in Yugoslavia), I have played practically all of these games you've mentioned (well... Not quite. Some I own but have yet to complete yet, which I will rectify within the next couple years as I work through my game backlog). My thoughts on the following games which I own... PC games from Bethesda: The Terminator (Bethesda DOS game): The original GTA - SkyNet style as you can either play as Kyle Reese or Arnie himself. Primitive graphics but the concept is ahead of its time. Definitely passable. Terminator: 2029 (DOS): A little on the difficult side with combat flatter than a playing card but the atmosphere is great. Passable. Terminator: Rampage (DOS): Bad game design but I have played both the original floppy disk and the CD version and the CD one is the better of the two - the sound works on it and once you get the cheats working, it makes you feel like a badass. I managed to blitzkrieg through twenty-one levels of Rampage in a single day! In that respect, it is good if you're a masochist. Terminator: Future Shock (DOS): Great game but I've yet to play it. Terminator: SkyNet (DOS): Cut-&-Paste my previous comment for this one. I have downloaded both of these games off MyAbandonware (along with the other Bethesda T-games) and they're on my to-play list. T2: The Arcade Game: I have the actual arcade game ROM on a custom MAME emulator on my Acer Aspire 3 laptop and it is awesome (I played it on an actual arcade back in the early 1990s) - just requires an external mouse just to allow the ROM to achieve the lightgun calibration screen (the game doesn't know it's not in an actual arcade console anymore). I also have the Sega Master System and Genesis versions and they're... Okay I guess. Being a PlayStation fan I like to joke that the Master System version is the PS1 version, the Genesis being the PS2 and the actual arcade ROM being the PS3 iteration (sure feels that way). I also have the Master and Genesis ROMs of the original Terminator and also RoboCop vs. Terminator games. PS2erminators: Dawn of Fate: Mediocre game, but the atmosphere is decent even though the story has some inconsistencies that are obvious to diehard fans. Average at best. I don't have Rise of the Machines but The Redemption is a surprise - the toughest game I have ever played (well, that and the DOS Rambo 3 game... And Geisha from Coktel - don't ask). Topnotch graphics for a PS2 game, the TechComm arcade game included on the game (which you failed to mention...might be a PS2 exclusive) was excellent. The difficulty is insane, but I've beaten it - spend an entire day playing on a Friday the 13th stuck on the SkyNet chamber level (third last level - right after that tunnel level that made you punch your couch). I beat it but only with half the cheats turned on. Without cheats it is almost impossible, even for hardcore players. But the feeling of beating it was beautiful. Terminator Salvation game: The movie was the third best Termovie and a decent film (you're entitled to your view, I have mine) but the tie-in game is the worst PlayStation game I have ever played.

[@thedemonlegacy3865]

"they cant be bargained with, They cant be reasoned with, They dont feel pity remorse or fear and they absolutely will not stop until my will to live is dead". is it just me or doesnt that sound a whole lotta like what John Conner said in terminator genisys?

[@drunkpaulocosta9301]

My mother owned an arcade in Box Hill Victoria so i literally beat nearly every arcade game including the terminator game. Who'd have known that the real trick to beating those games was not having to pay 2 dollars a life and just getting your mum to put infinite credits mode on lol

[@patricks.7951]

That's freaking awesome. Every kids dream lol

[@MopSpadowski]

Well done, kid. Well done.

[@drunkpaulocosta9301]

@@patricks.7951 yeah it had its benefits. Made making real friends hard until i was like 13 because people would just use me for the perks of being my friend. But who needs friends when you would finish school at 3pm. Catch a bus to the arcade and game until 9pm when it close(12am) on wednesday because(we had lock in 3 hour gaming sessions that night)

[@drunkpaulocosta9301]

This was until Ps1 came out and i would just go home after that. The arcade began to gather dust basically the day that console dropped

[@Bubba__Sawyer]

@@drunkpaulocosta9301 Where exactly in Box Hill was this arcade and how long was it around for? Also, did you ever go to Dark Zone in Box Hill? My friend used to have his birthday parties there in the 90s. So much fun.

[@psychedelicsunshine]

As someone who's played all of these.... Yeah most are bad. There's a special place in my heart for Redemption and Dawn of Fate. Salvation was amusing but only because I co-op played it with my mom

[@advancedlamb]

idk how redemption is bad. it's actually more like a spectacle game where you do a bunch of awesome segments back-to-back. the melee combat was kinda bad and all, but still was fun.

[@Pawele_stary_dziad]

T3: Redeption was really fun:)

[@monsterhunter66]

Your mom sounds cool

[@UnwrittenSpade]

I co-oped you mom too. Haha sorry mate you left that one wide open I’m just playing

[@psychedelicsunshine]

@@UnwrittenSpade Hahahaha. Yeah I deserved that one, that's hilarious

[@shilohyoung2247]

"does he even have a baby maker?" Terminator 1 and 2 certainly show so

[@cinemahorizon5109]

You didn't mention this but the Terminator: Salvation game has an arcade version that you can find at almost every arcade you go to.

[@n7reject993]

I akways thought Redemption was a good game. I especially loved playing it as a kid. The voice acting was admittedly terrible, but I enjoyed it a lot for what it was. A very fun game in my honest opinion.

[@marcmarc6591]

I agree. I even go back n play redemption here n tgere . especially using component cables on a crt. In my opinion looks great. Its kinda like an arcade game, mindless fun but fun all the same

[@n7reject993]

@@marcmarc6591 Yeah I always thought it had amazing graphics for its time. I need to play it again it's been years lol.

[@RaidenHazeJGaming]

My favorite mission was the one where you were on the motorcycle with a shotgun lol was always fun

[@n7reject993]

@@RaidenHazeJGaming Yeah that one was one of my favorites too. I also liked the futuristic segments.

[@nano5696]

i just played the first level every month or so

[@KillaGandhi]

I played The Redemption when it came out and the only thing I remember liking, and still think about to this day, is the damage model on Arnold. The further you get into a level, the more torn up and rugged his outer flesh looks. So cool.

[@StewyAdamRules]

Terminator Resistance is exactly what I wanted from a game set in this universe. It’s definitely the best Terminator game we’ve had and probably the best we ever will get.

[@grunions9648]

I'd like to see a kind of 'Terminator: Isolation' game where you have to outwit the robot in a variety of scenarios

[@jwinter8665]

They're already making one

[@DrinkyDrank]

It’s a pretty good rule of thumb to assume that 95% of games that are based on movies and movies that are based on games will be total shit

[@lobodesade6780]

With the rare exception, like X-Men Origins Wolverine, and that's the only one that comes to mind, in terms of videogame movies the first Resident Evil and Silent Hill movies are guilty pleasures of mine, hardly what you would call good movies, but they were entertaining enough.

[@SolarisKane]

@@lobodesade6780 Riddick Escape From Butcher Bay and the sequel Dark Athena are easily the best video games that take place in a movie-started universe. It's just a shame we never got a 3rd game. They were kind of niche titles not meant to appeal to a wide audience like Call of Duty. Made by the OG Starbreeze who also did the fantastic The Darkness game.

[@kylele23]

@@lobodesade6780 The first set of transformers michael bay games were pretty good for what they were. Two sided GTA style campaign for PS2 and on DS you had different versions for the campaigns being an Autobot or Decepticon OC influencing what happens from the movie and adding in more interactions so decepticons aren’t just sticks that die.

[@paladin_au]

cars.

[@lobodesade6780]

@@SolarisKane yea that's another good one actually, I used to have both of them games, and sadly never got to complete them because they were stolen, and nowadays it's hard to replace them, but I will buy them online eventually. And I agree, it's ashame there was never a third game.

[@NJBoden]

Aside from the camera angles I thought Terminator: Dawn of Fate was fantastic! The fight against the Infiltrator was perfect and actually felt like you were fighting an actual Terminator. Especially with its flesh slowly coming off and it still trying to kill you after it loses its legs!

[@thevirtuousgamer3429]

Yup that was the idea and the music even has the Terminator motif. For 2002 it was pretty remarkable.

[@fullauto223]

I loved playing Dawn of Fate.

[@LongStar117]

My older step brother is learning disabled and he loved it.

[@hasanz7585]

I remember T3 redemption being pretty good until I realised I only really liked the first level 💀

[@seikatsuragi7237]

Seeing Redemption here felt weird since I remembered having a lot of fun playing it when a friend gave it to me for a week. The first two levels were great, and I enjoyed those bits before giving it back. Now I see why it was here if THE ENTIRE GAME was like that wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did, so I guess I was lucky for just being able to play the first two levels. One small thing tho, Redemption did have a co-op splitscreen gamemode, which... Was also vehicle sections with two turrets instead of one, but they were also pretty flashy and visual stunning. Once again, something you enjoy it for a limited time before it gets repetitive.

[@zmman9243]

I actually really enjoyed Redemption and Dawn of Fate as a kid. We don’t get vehicle sections in games anymore these days.

[@xCobraCommanderx]

Terminator Redemption is actually a great game. Especially for that era. I wish we got another game with that style.

[@WH250398]

Terminator Resistance was a huge surprise. Just an ok game overall i'd say, but the love and care put into the game shine through. Incredibly impressive for such a small team with a limited budget.

[@RepublicTrooper125]

100% agreed! That’s what made me love the game.

[@RepublicTrooper125]

@@Cha4k well seeing that Rambo was their last game, it looks like they are getting better lol

[@moelester3141]

I absolutely love that game and can't wait for thier robocop game next year

[@jimboslice4753]

"This is where you get off" at the truck kick off had me dead 💀

[@FestArc]

It just goes to show you how much a childhood brain enhances the experience with some things. I remember Dawn of Fate being really cool. And when I got older and was able to spend my own money I ended up tracking it down on Ebay... yeah, it didn't age well. lol

[@GhstSecurity]

"All anyone remembers is that first level" BROOOOO memory unlocked for me haha They ported that arcade Terminator game to Sega back in the day and it was so fucking hard growing up. Legit never made it past level 1

[@vahlok1426]

I remember having to use that cheat code that instantly skips a level to get by that impossible truck defense level.

[@JA070288]

I'm still naively hoping for a Terminator Movie in the "Future" Timeline. Hollywood is so incredibly stupid to never develope a movie like that especially considering all of the horrible sequels. (Terminator Salvation is not what I'm talking about. I want a movie set in the style of the opening to T1.)

[@anangryaustralian8518]

yeah I generally wanna know how john formed the resistance or rather how they managed to survive hunger and such.

[@JA070288]

@@anangryaustralian8518 I'm going to be honest with you.... I just want lasers. LOTS of lasers!

[@Gameprojordan]

They already tried that with terminator salvation and messed it up. Doubt they'll attempt to retry it.

[@DTNNooby]

they did that and it was boring

[@MrNegativecreep07]

@@JA070288 Only if they're in a 40w range though.

[@MrRed88]

36:25 "I know people on the internet have this habit of suddenly acting like something that's always been bad is now simply good because enough time has past", *takes off glasses and puts down clipboard* What is now known as Star Wars prequels syndrome.

[@sirdetmist3204]

I had an idea for a terminator game where it spawns you in a city at a random point with a job a name and place where you live and so on so you are just an average person and then jt spawns a terminator in the same city and then it starts hunting you, it tries to find out everything about you find any patterns in how you live your life and so on, it would be a brutally hard game but you could survive and kill the terminator you also wouldn't know what the terminator looked like either.

[@Spar10Leonidas]

That mission in _Redemption_ where the T/X keeps jumping on the hearse and you have to knock her off the car was so fucking frustrating to me as a kid. I don't remember ever seeing any instruction on how to shoot while you're driving that particular vehicle, so I kept trying to get rid of her by ONLY using the environment, such as some bar or whatever that had low clearance. Needless to say, I didn't get very far for a while, because you actually have to shoot her in order to stun her and grind her along the guardrails. A friend of mine finally figured it out, and the level became much easier, but goddamn that was annoying. Other than that, I remember mostly enjoying _Redemption,_ and it was _Rise of the Machines_ that I disliked the most, given the lackluster shooting and the game being way too easy. But, if there was one level in _Redemption_ that I would say definitely needed at least one checkpoint, it would have to be the one where you're commandeering an H/K drone and traveling through the Skynet tunnels. That level was so fucking long that, between that and the trial-and-error nature of avoiding obstacles and hostiles, it took me days to be able to finally finish it (I remember liking the soundtrack of that mission, though).

[@Leo.Dhas.]

Yeah that mission was assss

[@Cr1msnF4dger]

The God of War games had fixxed cameras as well, but they werent at least ludicrous to look at during combat

[@thestigsdutchcousin]

The camera in the earlier God of War games was near perfect. You always had a clear view of where you were, and were the enemies were. Seldom it screwed up. I wish they kept that.

[@OptimusCrime1223]

That and the majority of enemies didn't shoot you from 20 miles away offscreen

[@blackknight9157]

What about the earlier dmc games? From 1-4

[@AhmedX8]

@@blackknight9157 DMC 1 was the only one with a fixed camera, and it mainly aided the macabre atmosphere. It didn't help the gameplay much since Dante's movement depended on the camera angle. GOW's fixed camera was leagues better from a gameplay perspective.

[@chillhour6155]

Budget and talent goes along way

[@seldom_bucket]

When i was very little i asked my older dyslexic brother what a trail of cloud in the sky was and he said a terminator. I then asked what a terminator was, he apparently forgot he called it a tornado and went on to describe 'an unstoppable thing from the future that comes back and kills everyone'. It was a scary few minutes for me.

[@TheGreenAnorak]

Just discovered your channel. Love your reviews and opinions on gaming. **Subscribed**

[@mranon8508]

Terminator 3 Redemption is honestly the most epic depiction of the Terminator universe I have yet to experience. You can tell the developers were pushing the hardware as far as they could and I can respect that. One of my favorite games of all time.

[@nicholasseitler4997]

I LOVED it as a kid. Great game, but I sucked at it.

[@ZuhairEDP]

@@nicholasseitler4997 lol. Me too I couldn't finish the first level

[@SuperFriendBFG]

There was also Terminator 3: War of the Machines that was a tie-in to the 3rd film. It wasn't a bad game at all. It played a lot like Battlefront / Battlefield where you chose either the Resistance or SkyNET and battled it out with vehicles included. Sadly I didn't get to play it much online and the bots are just awful so yeah.

[@AKU-hs2rj]

My favourite is when you play as resistance and one bot with bazooka decides to just fire the second they respawn with you

[@dhawkes5096]

it wasn't a good game either. The worst part is they had a really promising Terminator Battlefield 1942 mod shut down so it wouldn't have competed with their garbage

[@AKU-hs2rj]

@@dhawkes5096 it was mindless fun for me. Especially because the AI was as smart as bricks lol

[@Bubba__Sawyer]

@@dhawkes5096 I get no results when I search KZbin for it :/

[@dhawkes5096]

@@Bubba__Sawyer I managed to find one result for you buddy :) is from a Korean lets player kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJTWmmaXad14gJI

[@singlemotherRespector]

Dawn of fate honestly brings up good memories. Good ol PS2 days!

[@darekgnika863]

"Trance music in Casablanca" this is real GOLD my friend XD

[@MopSpadowski]

The Terminator for *SEGA CD* is an awesome game. The cover art is bizarre but the actual game is very well done. 👍

[@Prizrak-hv6qk]

Yes. For a change, the Mega-CD game is actually totally different from the vanilla Mega Drive one, actually taking advantage of the extra storage and CPU horsepower and is a pretty rad run and gun game, being the best early Terminator experience in my opinion. It's too bad that G-Man missed this one. Awesome Redbook soundtrack by the great Tommy Tallarico too. I believe that it was made by the guys who later formed Shiny. The game runs great on the easy-to-use Kega Fusion emulator.

[@MopSpadowski]

@@Prizrak-hv6qk Yup! I only have 30 Sega CD games but this is one of my top 5, such a solid game.

[@TheRussian13]

I remember playing both Rise of the Machines and Redemption. Redemption was definitely my favorite of the two and I still think it's a fairly decent game version of Terminator.

[@DarkJericho48]

I played T3 R.O.T.M for Xbox It's fun and I beat the whole game

[@murdergang624allday7]

Dog, I played redemption as a kid & struggled with it to the point I went out of my own way to find the level cheat codes. This is back when google had just sprouted if I’m not mistaken. Anyways I was stuck on the cemetery drive away level. I used the cheat codes only to struggle with the next levels. I never genuinely finished it, just played the next levels but never passed them. I got so mad with that game I shelved it. But I loved the way he would take damage & played the levels in the future. The closest game I’ve played to that game with actual improvement would be wolverine origins. I was only a kid back then. But not going to lie I genuinely want to replay redemption again. I’m sure I would beat it now for sure.

[@bronsoncamp8987]

Same here. Was obsessed with terminator as a kid and this was the Magnum Opus of Terminator games in my eyes 😂

[@gunkboydman]

When I was a kid, I used to go to a local pizza place that had a Terminator Salvation arcade cabinet. I absolutely loved it and had the highscore on it for 2 years before they reset it

[@user-cc4se5jp6c]

Casablanca bit with Blade music is sublime

[@TheGodEmperorOfMankind_]

I played Rise of the Machines and The Redemption back then and I remember enjoying Redemption quite a bit more. The recent Terminator Resistance was actually a really decent AA title

[@Anonymous-73]

There was also an arcade game for Salvation, and of course it was about as blatant as an on rails shooter can get, but by god was it awesome. I remember the game having a decent gameplay loop and some sweet destruction physics. Some of the sequences were amazing as well. And the best part is that it’s not exactly hard to find, it’s pretty much in every big arcade in existence at this point. So if you happen to stumble across it, check it out.

[@shadowedge729]

i play the crap outta that game whenever i get the chance to go to an arcade

[@Nbdestryer]

Yeah I think i heard that due to the poor reception of the console version of Terminator: Salvation, the Arcade game was delayed by a whole year in order to polish it up, so that would explain the vast improvement in quality.

[@ArcangelZero7]

I was hoping he'd bring up the arcade game because it's technically a "shooter" but yeah that game is SO MUCH FUN. Hard as balls though and it always costs upwards of a dollar per play. X_X It really knows how to use the soundtrack though....And honestly I didn't mind Salvation all that much.

[@user-ol7bt4wp1j]

Honestly a three way Terminator Game would be really great Like imagine a Terminator story game were you play as all 3 main characters The protagonist (Teenage John Connor), the Terminator that protects you, and the Enemy Terminator who you also control It plays in 1996 in L.A and the world is like 80% open world something like that.

[@GabrielOnuris]

I must say I really liked the effects you used with the game boxes, like the one at the end dipping slowly in molten metal. They are just seconds long, but I understand you might have spent hours doing them, and they are really awesome!

[@ISKLEMMI]

25:20 - That's something I'd like to hear: an Australian Terminator vs an Austrian Terminator.

[@typhonviserys8288]

"I'll be back." "Like a boomerang?" "...fuck you."

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

@@typhonviserys8288 fucking genius

[@andrewgray5696]

I am SHOCKED that he didn’t mention that in Redemption, Arnold spins a PUMP ACTION shotgun to reload like he did with the lever action in Terminator 2

[@raveltammeleht6278]

I highly recommend doing a review on Driv3r. I installed this on this weekend and I finished this game. It was an interesting journey! The "take a ride" option made me smile occasionally, because of some very interesting design choices made by the dev team. The niece map is where the mechanics shine the most. Also the NPC in that game look like its a standard t800 haha

[@Jamesamong007]

The only thing i remember about Redemption was the button feature that lets you make Arnold say one liners anytime during the game. A friend and i got bored of the game and just kept pressing that button over and over again while getting our asses handed to us lol. "EXCELLENT! FANTASTIC! FANSTASTIC!...."

[@DoctorSween]

Regarding the comments about the “future war” scenes in the first two films,…right on. Cameron’s economy of storytelling was right on. Knowing when “less is more” is exactly enough. Somehow ALL the later films missed that memo. The games do LOOK good, mostly. Artistically. Visually. They also look a little tedious in the actual playing tho. Awesome breakdown as ever.

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

@Ailsa Ni There are actually more than these 4, too. He only went over a handful. Especially if you consider arcades. I remember playing a T3 arcade machine at my local movie theater back in the months after the film came out, for instance.

[@DCGMatthew1]

Nice. I've played all the Terminator games and I gotta say I think Redemption might be the coolest to me. I just love how as you take damage, your exo-skeleton starts getting exposed.

[@SGTKILL995]

I played a bunch of early Terminator games as a kid. I absolutely loved them, but don't compare to Resistance for sure. Hope they make another.

[@davidrex5695]

That line about punching the couch and missing the cushion hit home. I broke my hand doing that.

[@KitePerson]

I feel like these developers knew the quality of their game that and hoped to God that no one remembered their work. But not Gman. *Gman never forgets.*

[@imswanronson3558]

Redemption was fucking awesome I remember liking it way more than ROTM

[@kurtfurst2052]

I remember being so mad at redemption for constantly putting me into enforced turret scenes and chases. I remember being really confused as a youth as to why the game was like this...

[@H4TTOR1_H4NZO]

Terminator 2 was so good that it made the events in the movie feel like it actually happened in real life.

[@WillPaskee]

"Terminator Salvation is the most generic" at least it's faithful to the movie

[@hopelessedgelord]

I'd Say resistence as the most generic aams it hits nearly every tick box on the moderen generic bingo card

[@cenciende9401]

Except no, it definitely wasn't a great movie, but I would NEVER describe it as generic. To this day I still remember the trailer and the unique for the time visual style.

[@WillPaskee]

@@hopelessedgelord maybe so but it at least had that extra box that got ticked since it made you want to continue playing without having your family be held captive

[@hopelessedgelord]

@@WillPaskee No they do that in the DLC but even then I only finished it because I paid for it.

[@r0b3rt_959]

I'd say The Redemption is an ok game, nice twist to make the movie a playable experience. Altough the particle accelerator turned into a time machine it's a little bit of a stretch.

[@HappyLMegas]

When I was a kid, I remember replaying the demo of Redemption like crazy until the part you had to get in the car, when I reached that point I stopped and started again. I was in love with the combos you could perform on the bots and hated with a burning passion the driving parts lol When I finally got the game, I was heartbroken after realizing that most of the game was just a driving simulator... haha Still I hold dear the demo in my heart 😂

[@GrimmHollywood]

As per your inquiry about game developers slacking on design elements and reusing assets, I think it must be due to exhaustion. At a certain point, you just go "fuck it" and do whatever to get through it. Lovin' the video, subscribed and excited to delve into your other vids.

[@MarioVelezBThinkin]

Presentation is everything with these. The redemption looked enough like an action movie with terminator vision. And I think that landing the feel of the walk and graphics and terminator vision won everyone over. It was the only one of all these games that I've tried that I actually wanted to look for.

[@KingOhmni]

I unironically loved T:Dawn of Fate. I loved breaking the game with the melee+role combo.

[@isengarde9490]

"Humans wanting to become robots is pretty out there." *angry Tech Priest chanting ensues*

[@MidlifeCrisisJoe]

The most interesting thing about Terminator Salvation:The Movie: The Game, is it's developer, Grin. They were making like, 12 games at once, and published at least 3 that year alone - the Terminator game, a licensed tie-in to the film version of the comic book, Wanted, and the 3D sequel to Bionic Commando for Capcom, which was the one with the most promise and thus, the most disappointment in my opinion. Funny to note, as someone who's played at least the Bionic Commando game, is that in that game there was also a major issue with lacking enemy variety and weak boss fights (as well as a jank story). But the big behind the scenes story with Grin is that they were also working with Square-Enix on a western studio (they were Swedish) developed Final Fantasy game, and apparently sunk a lot of funds into building out the beginning prototypes of the game. But then they either weren't paid and screwed over by Squeenix or they f'd up the contract and screwed over Squeenix (can't remember which), but in the end of it, putting all that money in the Final Fantasy project blew their savings and they made almost nothing out of all the releases they had done the prior year and poof! Studio went up in smoke. (also there was some sort of connection they had to the Swedish mob? Or am I getting them confused with the Gizmodo guy?)

[@therun4love]

Redemption was solid I feel, it was enjoyable, and the voice was passable, loved the game as a kid

[@MrSnaztastic]

Always remember, these were made back in the days of cheats still being a thing. If you were getting pissed off at a section or wanted to make the game fun in a different way, there were umpteen arcane commands you could enter to achieve that. I would've never got through stuff like Terminator Redemption or even older stuff like Alien Trilogy without cheats such as 1gotp1nk8cidbootson

[@DarkD1zzy]

I'm just chilling, trimming my beard, playing this video in the background. I didn't expect to be violated at 11:52 😂

[@mune.t8691]

My first language is spanish, and you CANNOT BEGIN to imagine how stupidly difficult that game was for me. Not only I had to play it 100 times to pass each level, but also I didn't have any idea about the upgrade system or the even the missions objectives, so I just shot a everything that moved in the screen hoping to finish the leve. The cementery mission and the final mission were THE WORST because I didn't understand the objectives, I was just shooting a the ban and at the boss in hopes for them to get destroyed. All in all, a horrible childhood experience: 11/10