Reviewing Terrible Terminator Games 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 😂

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.

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

"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.

The Terminator 3 cover with Arnold smiling is soooo Hilarious 😂

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

"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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

Seeing the Daggerfall engine with Terminator assets is amazing.

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.

"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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

"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

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.)

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Casablanca bit with Blade music is sublime

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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!...."

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.

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.

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.

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

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.*

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

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...

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

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

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.

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 😂

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

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.

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

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.

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?)

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

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

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

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