 "This game Terminates all other games!" | 2009-08-25 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
All right. First thing's first: DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT THE CRITICS SAY! This is a fun game! Anything the critics say is BS! Now that that's out of the way, it's time for the review.
This game is overall, fantastic! So here's how it's going to work. I'll list the game's pros and cons and then talk about the game itself. Okay?
Pros:
- Good gameplay
-Good graphics
-Great special features
-Good voice acting
-T3 Redemption demo rocks!
Cons:
-Too many flying things
-Terminators have to be pumped full of virtual lead
-Fliers are too quick
-Too many levels in future
Overall, the game is awesome! My copy didn't come with a manual, so I'll have to wing it here. I'm pretty sure that the game features Arnie's voice. The game is mostly composed of this: 85% first person combat, 15% third person hand to hand. I haven't finished the game, so don't call me inaccurate on this: I'm pretty sure a lot of the game is in the future. In it you get to play as two terminators: a Skynet Terminator, and good ol' Arnie. The special features are also amazing. WARNING! THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS A SPOILER! TURN BACK IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME YET! Special features include cg cutscenes, behind the scenes, bonus footage, the dvd trailer, and scenes from the T3 movie. And those are just the movies! There's also a T3:Redemption demo that's awesome, a whole bushel of pictures, and much more! Well that's about it! Hasta la vista! |
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 "Very Good" | 2008-12-05 |
| - Reviewed By pimpdaddybratek |
| The game tells the story of what happened "prior" to T3, so to speak, as well as fills in holes within the movie itself. The only problem is that there are some glitches, and sometimes it's impossible to shoot down the small, fast moving aerobots. The bonus features are very good as well. |
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| "Awesome Game" | 2007-06-13 |
| - Reviewed By lunielu |
| My son says"I love it !!! It has very good graphics!I also like destroying the robots." |
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 "Could have been worse!" | 2006-02-21 |
| - Reviewed By scottallinson |
I bought this cheap so got lucky on that front, but this game could have been so much better. Graphically its not bad - bit boring seeing the same old terminator endoskeleton wandering toward you over and over again (maybe a different color occassionally) but it holds well. The backgrounds are a little ropey and its often difficult to find the way out of a building because the walls look totally the same but its still playable. Ah ha thats a word! Playable - well i ran through the game - it took maybe 3 hours got the secrets (the arcade games from the movie) and all the the extras and movie clips and ....erm....i probably wont play it again, unless i am that bored and every other game (other than auto modalista) are broken (i hope that game breaks!!!) But to play it - remember the movie, as thats is what it is, a game of a movie, if you know the movie, you know exactly whats going to happen. Maybe be if TNT or spike have it on one night it might inspire you to play it again.
All in all its not bad, its not great - its....erm...terminator 3 |
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| "This could have been a great game" | 2005-11-24 |
| - Reviewed By kingsponseller |
Although not completely horrible--I did bother to finish the game, after all, although I "cheated" a bit, this game is a great disappointment. It could have been so much more. Contra mainstream opinions, I'm usually a big fan of movie tie-in games--they're often my favorites. But this is one case where I can painfully see the common criticism lobbed against these titles--Terminator 3 seems as if it were ridiculously rushed through production.
Almost all of this game is a first person shooter. The controls are completely non-intuitive. There's not much of a story. You basically go through a number of very simple maze-like environments and shoot Terminators and machinery/weapons. Most levels are just variations on the same thing, over and over. It's not that the game isn't challenging; as I mentioned, I had to employ cheats to complete it--invincibility and unlimited ammunition. But the challenge isn't what you'd like it to be. What makes the game so difficult is that (1) the controls are very difficult to get used to--it takes a long time to become acclimated to moving around the environments, firing weapons, and so on; and (2) the graphics are horrible--most of the game is way too dark, whenever you get close to anything all you can see is a blur, and you can very easily walk into walls and corners, so that if you turn around, you just get a black blur turning into a brown blur, with a white square blur over there, and so on. Meanwhile, there is an endless barrage of terminators and flying machines firing on you, so even if you can't see anything to find them, they'll quickly kill you and you have to start all over. I can't see how anyone could make it through this game without the invincibility cheat. It also doesn't help that mission objectives are relayed by a woman mumbling in a monotone voice, but thankfully they are also given to you in a text form.
Because it was so difficult to maneuver and see what I was doing, I had to routinely switch to my "map" screen. But the map screen takes a lot of the fun out of the game, as it shows you very easily where you are and just where you need to go. I'd walk a few yards in one direction, bump into a wall and see a bunch of blurry stuff, go to the map screen to figure out which way I was facing, go back to the main game screen, turn as necessary, and repeat. Most of the time when I got to the stuff I needed to get to in order to complete my next objective, I had little idea what I was attaining. I just new I had to go there because the map screen showed it, and once I got there, it said my objective was complete.
Maybe I'm not much of a fan of first-person shooters. I haven't played a lot of them yet, although I've played some. I don't remember them being as unpleasant to control as this game is.
The real crime, though, is that this could have been such a great game. During the boss fights, you get to play Arnold in a third person mode. That was already a great improvement. When the environments weren't so dark, and when they weren't just more variations on the anonymous post-apocalyptic wastelands that all look the same and just amount to a lot of mindless shooting where it doesn't matter which of the thirty guns you use, the game was actually pretty fun. I love the Terminator films, and I even liked the third installment--there was a story there that would have been fun to play in a third person mode. Some of the graphics work was done for a better game, as the cut scenes in 3D PlayStation graphics were far more entertaining, varied and engaging than the game (although a sign of being a rush job was present in later cut scenes just being film clips). I wanted to be doing those other tasks instead. They should have had you drive the crane through Los Angeles. They should have had some sections of the game that had puzzles instead of just shooting stuff level after level. There should have been some interaction with other characters. Even with the game design as it stood, it could have been much better with better graphics, lighting and control.
It's probably worth picking this game up if you're a huge Terminator or first-person shooter fan, as you should be able to get it very cheaply (as I did). At least with the cheats on, it was entertaining enough--and even occasionally fun--to work through the game once (although with the cheats on, you can do it in a few hours, but it's better than hour after hour of frustration without them). Just don't expect too much and try to not think too much about the game that could have been. |
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| "Not worth it" | 2005-02-09 |
| - Reviewed By serfius |
| Basically, this game's not worth anyone's money. I bought this game thinking it would be pretty good, but boy was I surprised. This game has ok graphics, terrible gameplay, and no story at all. I wish this game was never made because it made Atari look stupid. The only upside about it is that it has a Terminator liscence, which is always cool(except this time). |
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