Terminator Salvation

The robust T-600 and T-800 that we saw in the films and television series show themselves to be rather fragile here. You will also encounter robots that take the form of spiders, flying drones and even heavily armed motor bikes. The motorbikes are present during the vehicle phases of the game.

During these passages, you have to more or less protect a convoy with the help of a grenade launcher, and consequently destroy everything that passes under your eyes. In a single passage, our friend John Connor takes down more robots then what we saw in all of the films put together. You also need to destroy a large number of air units which acts as the boss.

The missions take place both in the free air, and in closed areas. But the games schema doesn’t change at all and we have to underline the weaknesses seen in the artificial intelligence. This shows itself as perfect as the first Skynet robots (the famous T-1 from Terminator 3) which you have to repair, to shoot with and move poorly in the space.

Terminator fans will be disappointed about the point just noted in regards to the enemy going down in just a few seconds, but also by the behaviour of these devices. Skynet, with all their powerful artificial intelligence development, haven’t been able to develop an AI worthy of their name over a good twelve years?

In the end you find yourself fighting an opposition that doesn’t engage well and linking together missions at an infernal rhythm. Fortunately the game has a cooperative mode which allows you to play as two. Playing as two, there is no doubt that the confrontations are more dynamic, although this will lead to a game that is a whole lot shorter.

It is unfortunate that this isn’t a real strategy, with things being made even easier due to the number of weapons on offer. Christian Bale fans will also be disappointed that the actor didn’t participate in the game from GRIN, with his voice missing from the final result. Rather average, the noises in the game play their role, and we have to congratulate them on their inclusion of the well Terminator 2 theme music. The same can be said of the voices, which are correct.