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Incredibly Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe I just blew [alot of money]on this. Terrible game. Like so many games with big movie titles, they just use the title to sell the game.They put no effort into making a good game....Very disorienting,...

a huge disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As soon a I heard that there was going to be a Terminator game for PS2 and Xbox I couldn't wait for it to be released. I love the terminator franchise and if the game was anything like the movie it would be great, but it wasn't. I was going to spend the night at my friend's house and we went to Block Buster. We both decided to get Terminator dawn of Fate, because we both like Terminator. As soon as we started playing the game I hated it. Since the Terminator is basically a shooter concept I expected it to be a first person game, which it is not. The camera angles where even worse, and what really pissed me off was that you weren't John Connor or the Terminator, you were the guy in the first movie who dies. The person in the game didn't even look like him, he had puffed up hair in the game that he does not have in the movie. The graphics were alright, and the wepons weren't that great either. This game sucks and it was a waste oif seven fifty. Hopefully the next Terminator game won't be as bad.

It's a Flop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I can understand diehard TERMINATOR fans anxious to get there fingers on this one, however diehard ps2 gamers won't enjoy this due to horrible gameplay and crappy camera angles. My friend rented it and I kept telling him not to spend his 5 bucks at the local blockbuster. In any event he did, we drove home, cranked it in my ps2 and I watched him play on "Easy" mode...which is unbelievably easy. Don't get me wrong...the story line is good, it had potential however the camera angles switching every moment you walk 1 inch is frustrating. I don't recommend renting, nor buying this game. This game is geared for diehard terminator fans who don't care much for quality ps2 games. They're library probably consists of Alien Vs Predators as well.

Sorry Rick...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game sucks. Also, if you haven't seen the movie "Rise of the Machines", it sucks, too. Well...maybe not to Rick from Indiana who, incidentally, doesn't get out too much.

WORTHY -- OF BEING CRUSHED IN A HYDRAULIC PRESS

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I love the Terminator movies, but I gotta be honest with you,not this game .... Here's why:

1)Obnoxious camera, in conjunction with the terrible movement controls. I OFTEN found myself getting lost/disorientated/stuck.

2)Not enough outdoor levels. Instead, you run around bases, hotels, parking lots, asylums, etc. You end up feeling very claustrophobic by the 3rd level or so.

3)Speaking of which, there are only 10 levels.

4)There are three characters to play as, but it's not like you get to pick one of the three characters before entering the next level. One mission you may be Kyle Reese, the next you might be some gun-toting female.

(5) If there is one enemy that you will learn to hate REAL fast, it's those annoying flying saucers that knock you on your back when they attack. And then you get up, and unless you destroy it "muy pronto" you're going to get knocked down AGAIN.

(6)I've only seen/fought one T-800 in the game. But you have your Pulsed Plasma Rifle in the 40 Watt range, right? Remember how easily the Resistance killed T-800's in the future scene in Terminator 2? No such thing here. You pump umpteen thousand rounds into this T-800 and he finally softens up. Then you pump another umpteen thousand rounds into him only to saw him in half. But that upper half is still alive, so, Plasma Rifle in hand, you pump another umpteen thousand rounds into him. Goodness, you'd think you were shooting a wimpy .22 or something. It was after that battle that I said, "Forget it, this game isn't worth my time."

(7) You don't get to ride around in vehicles. (But Keep in mind that I stopped at level 7 of 10, so I'm not sure about 8,9, or 10, but I doubt it.)

(8) Easy mode is too hard.

(9) No BIG battles, like the one at the start of T2. Instead, you're reduced to "going-it-alone" missions with occasional run-ins with stupid allies.

(10) And worst of all, this game just simply isn't fun. It's frustrating. Believe me, I tried to like it, but it never happened. You can spend your money on something better than this (like the Terminator films on DVD special editions if you don't have them already).

Here are a couple Terminator game alternatives you might want to consider: Skynet, Terminator 2029,(these latter two were made by Bethesda for the PC, if I remember correctly),various Terminator games for the Gameboy, NES, SNES, and Arcade.

The only good parts about this game are the FMV's, but I'd rather watch the movies than this piece of garbage any day.

Good concept, lousy execution

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Terminator: Dawn of Fate is a pretty fair game- but it tries so hard to be a good game, but hardware and perhaps even legal considerations just kept getting in the way. Dawn of Fate tells the story of the events leading up to Kyle Resse's eventful trip back to the past to save Sarah Connor and destroy the CSM-101 Terminator sent to kill her and prevent John Connor from being born. The game is built around the standard premise of killing terminators, collecting technology for upgrades and of course, the survival of all mankind against the evil and monolithic, Skynet. You get to meet General Connor, Justin Perry and Catherine Luna- friends and comrades of Kyle's and you switch characters between missions.

It's odd that they managed to capture the look of post Judgment Day Earth, the battlefields and ruined cities perfectly. Everything Skynet had- all the vehicles- the H/K tanks and aerial units are all there in gleaming chrome, but that's all they captured. The sounds are all wrong. The brilliant purple plasma guns sound like typical game fair and don't have their deep, resonant stutter from the movies. Even the H/Ks don't sound quite right. It's like whichever studio owns the copyright approved using the appearance of everything, but said they couldn't use the sound effects. Either than or the developers decided to do their own. Bad mistake. Another flaw is that the Tech/Com soldiers and their weapons aren't really representative of the movies, either.

All I can say about the character models is BAD. Kyle Reese looks like Christopher Walken did as the Hessian in Sleepy Hollow, stupid hair and all. Justin Perry looks like he was carved out of stone and I won't go into how unfeminine Luna looks. Connor is probably the best rendered of the lot.

Mission play is broken up into 3rd person play, starting with protecting Connor from an terminator infiltration attack, destroying Tech/Com's computers and blowing up an H/K tank that has rolled into the top floor of the resistance's hideout. In that mission you have to protect a demolitions expert as he plants explosive charges in the massive hotel base, is a royal pain, because he does nothing to defend himself. Instead, he stands there passively getting blasted by terminators while you rush around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to kill them before they grease him. Later missions involve a secondary story that the programmers must have felt was pretty clever. They're wrong. As well you must prevent Skynet from steeling all the platinum from a Federal Reserve bank.

Apparently Skynet has just perfected the CSM-101 series infiltrators, but they have also been capturing normal humans and modifying them cybernetic mind control devices. One of these, Alexander Stone, blames Kyle for the death of his brother Gabriel and so has turned traitor, joining forces with Skynet in order to seek revenge. It is he the player must track down because he has stolen Connor's battle plans for an assault against Skynet's main base at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. But while you get the plans back, you can never actually kill Stone. I'm not entirely sure why Skynet would create these hybrids- dressed as they are in black and red leather with cybernetic implants visible on them, it's not like they can blend in like the infiltrator terminators do.

Finally it's the main assault on Cheyenne Mountain and you fight your way into the very core of the enemy's main base- blowing up everything in site. The hardest part being the attack on the central computer AI- the heart of Skynet which is apparently SO powerful that it is capable of mind control, a process that takes a few minutes while you work feverishly to cut off the computer's power source before it melts your guy's brain, thus ending the game.

So it's a pretty standard story line, except for the silliness of the hybrid part. There are plenty of weapons- grenades, rockets, plasma guns, machine guns, EMP weapons that stun robots for a few seconds- pretty basic stuff. The game offers a first person view, but as with any first-person console game, control is terrible and you're better off not using it except to look around at the scenery. One interesting function is Adrenaline- a function that makes you shoot faster and more accurately which enables you to take down baddies quicker than usual. It doesn't last long so it's best used wisely. Another problem is the Dino Crisis effect- opening doors just to get to another small area to open another door in order to get to another small area and, you guessed it, open another door. It gets old very fast.

While there are good concepts here, some nice graphics, the game almost seems crippled in places. Heck, you can't even walk off a ledge and kill yourself because the game won't allow it. But for the most part it seems to be a half-baked attempt to tell the same story that Bethesda Software did a decade ago with `Terminator: 2029', a somewhat more entertaining game, if graphically inferior. Dawn of Fate manages to tell a fair story with repetitive game play- go there, do that, kill this- if you've played Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, you'll know what to expect. I'd be interested to see the Xbox version just to check if it at least has better graphics.

VERY ANNOYING GAME!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this stupid game because I liked the Terminator a lot. When I was playing this game, I noticed two things wrong with it....... CAMERA VIEW & GRAPHICS!!!!!! Every time you go to a different area in the game, the camera view changes!!!!!! It is soooooooooo annoying!!! Also, this makes it very hard to find out where you are going. The graphics in the game are teeeerible!!!! They look like playstation 1 graphics! Right now, I'm on the last level (which isn't very hard to get to because there's only 10 levels) and I can't beat it because my objectives won't tell me what to do!! Now I'll probably NEVER beat this stupid game!!!!! The only thing good about this is the 8th level because tou actually battle a terminator. Other than that, this game is a complete waste of time.

A gritty little shooter that wants to be so much more

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: September 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Terminator: Dawn of Fate is a straight forward action/shooter with the storyline serving as a prequel to the first Terminator film. During the course of the game's 10 missions, you'll play as three different characters (including Kyle Reese, Michael Biehn's character from the original film), and even though the characters look different, the gameplay stays the same. To move the game along are some nicely rendered CG cinema sequences and in-game cut scenes, plus a comlink to pick up more objectives in the middle of a mission; all of which are nice little additions, but what hurts Terminator: Dawn of Fate are the overly clunky controls and annoying camera. Especially the fact that depending on which way your character is running, shooting, etc., the controls will change up whenever the camera angle does the same; if all of this would have been corrected this game would be a near must own. The game's graphics have moments of brilliance, but are nothing special really, as is the sound effects. All in all, despite it's flaws, Terminator: Dawn of Fate is a must play for fans of the Terminator films, but action gamers may be better suited to look elsewhere.

Terminator - The Fate of Wasted Money

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought I wrote a review on this already, but maybe
I decided against wasting more of my time on this product.
I'll make this quick. This game is OK at best. It's
uninspiring and the only driving force to continue to
playing is to get it over with. I actually liked the
most difficult part in which you have to fight a
Terminator in both human-like and machine form, but
there was only one in the whole game. You've just
gotta love those jacked up camera angles. Most of
the time you're shooting at something you can't see
on the screen. Fortunately, this game is incredibly
short, so the pain of thinking about the money you
spent ... will go away quickly. I've gotta
admit, this CD does make a good coaster for my drinks.
Don't buy it, rent it. If you don't finish it by
the time it's due back to Blockbuster, "forget about
it!" It's not worth the late fee. Oh yeah, stay away
from "No One Lives Forever". ...

A Little Better Than OK.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This wasn't a bad game. It was pretty hard in some spots, but generally only took about an hour or less per mission. Hard part is unlocking the cheats and extras, which I wasn't able to do. Earning medals is pretty tough unless your playing through the mission for the tenth time.

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