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Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My son says"I love it !!! It has very good graphics!I also like destroying the robots."

Could have been worse!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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

This could have been a great game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

NOT THAT GOOD

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THE ONLY REASON THIS GAME GETS 2STARS ITS ALL BECAUSE OFF ARONLD SCHWARZENEGGER THEY MADE HIM LOOK AMAZING AND IS VOICE SOUNDS GREAT.BESIDES THAT THIS GAME IS TERMINATED GAME OVER.

Not worth it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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).

good real good not bad good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ian Royak #19

i got this game thought it was sweet totally tricked out man but the levels after you beat it the first time it gets to easy i beat the 2nd time in 1 hour and thrty minutes unlike enter the matrix it is really long and some missions are really hard and you have to think of what needs to be done. not this it didn't feel as challenging the second time than the first time.

wish i could get all the terminators in one pack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

well they got t1 on playstation and t3 wish t2 was on ps1 or 2 hope they release t4 on ps2 all good if you are a terminator fan, would be nice if they combined them like the mortal combat game.

Could have been better if...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

it was in the "third person" rather than "first". The game is challenging and it helps having a map to know where you are going otherwise you would be stuck wandering directionless like in Blade 2 the game. The story doesn't follow the path of the movie, but to hear Arnold's voice was cool. I did enjoy blowing everything up.

Like I said, this game is not in "third person" and that is why I am giving it 3 stars.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Terminator is one of my favorite movies and this game is great but I would rather see a terminator 2 playstation 2 game since that was the best one.

Pretty easy to defeat

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun, with tons of awesome guns, but a total of about 15 hours was all it took me to do the 23 missions in this game, and I am NOT a great video game player. My advice is to play SOCOM II - tons better value for the money! Probably why T3 was $50 before Christmas, and is already down to $20.

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