Terminator: Resistance

A game that started rocky, but after the patches that fixed the bugs and optimization it is worth grabbing if you are a fan of the Terminator series or just want to smash the machines. The game does work really well on the Steam Deck even if it says it is unsupported.

One of the most immersive, yet linear, movie to game franchise done correctly. This is Terminator, the RPG, with skills, leveling, hacking, lockpicking, stealth, and dialogue trees.

Game excels at player progression transforming from initial feeling of a weak scavenger needing to stealth for survival and leveling up the ranks into a full-fledge master sniper and artilleryman taking down T-800s in one shot and HKs with several rockets.

Lots of variety and feels very much like Fallout 3, but marred by checkpoint saving. Really wish using nightvision did not slow down player movement as its the most useful mode through the entire game.

Highly recommend for all Terminator, stealth gameplay, and sci-fi dystopia fans.

This game shows that A or AA titles can be a lot of fun at a much more reasonable budget. Nice single player campaign (even more for fans of the terminator movies) without too much fluff.

If your a die hard Terminator fan and have access to a VR headset, it's worth a playthrough with Praydogs UEVR mod, why play future war when you can literally be IN it. Suddenly Terminators are 200% more terrifying when there's literally a 6ft metal skeleton cyborg in all it's glory standing inches from your face. Don't forget to add the music mod and graphics enhancement one for an unforgettable experience.

Very solid, good game.
First of all, the noob reviewer who thinks that this plays like a fallout mode has probably never played anything else than mainstream AAA titles in his life. This game has the "lockpick" minigame from bethesda titles but apart from that there are 0 similarities.

This is a simple normal Shooter, not a "boomer-shooter" but more akin to classics like Halo, Unreal, Prey, F.E.A.R, Solider of Fortune etc... It has a rudimentary skill tree and some crafting. It also has secondary objectives on some missions with a big open map format, but in its core this is a linear shooter.
The writing is solid, the story is OK and graphics are well done what you can expect from an Unreal Engine 4 game.

Achievements are very well done, no BS achievements like "collect 1214 notes or finish the game on nightmare mode" or similiar, all can be done in one playthrough with a little heads-up in advance.

The developer Teyon one and created the robocop FPS after this, which was also very well recieved. I hope this devs stay in the business for a long time and maybe do an alien vs predator title.

This is a fantastic Terminator game. It tells the story of a group of ordinary people on the run, and the lone survivor of a Resistance cell that was wiped out, and events preceding the first time travel event in the first Terminator movie.
While the graphics aren't cutting edge, they are pretty good and they certainly capture the look and feel of the Resistance scenes from the movies. The audio compliments the graphics perfectly, and the soundtrack is just rad.
The level design is great. The areas are quite big, with a lot to explore, a lot to find, with a lot of Easter eggs and little stories being told through great environmental storytelling. If you go off the beaten path, you will come across something interesting every time. It's not truly open world though, it makes use of zones that you travel to from a central hub. The zones are large enough that they have multiple paths to take through them, offering different approaches to mission objectives that can give you a strategic advantage. The maps do have some invisible walls, but it's not bad.
The character design is good, and the writing for them is decent, with generally good voice acting. The faces look good, but the expressions aren't cutting edge... still, they're good enough that they won't annoy you.
The weapons are a lot of fun, but conventional weapons quickly become obsolete and you will be at a disadvantage when using them against more advanced machines... but this is how it should be. The plasma weapons pick up the slack, and include a decent modification system.
The RPG elements are fine. You earn experience, gain skill points, and gain straightforward bonuses when spending them. +% to damage, ability to pick strong lockers, hack better encryptions (the hacking minigame will be very familiar to anyone who had an Atari 2600). It also has a simple crafting system which doesn't annoy, if you have the components (which are plentiful from looting the world), it's a one-click process to craft items, explosives, and ammo.
Most importantly, the gameplay is quite nice and the controls and gunplay are smooth and polished. Some FPS games feel just right, and this is one of them.
Most franchise games do not get the love that they deserve, but this Terminator game was clearly made by fans, for fans.

You know that there are those low-budget straight-to-video flicks that are sold as numbered sequels to a better well-known movie, solely as an attempt to rake in some quick cash on the name value of its predecessor? In most cases, these flicks are laughably bad - but every once in a while, a movie comes across where you can just feel that despite the shoestring budget, the cast and crew really gave it all to salute to the source material, as its dedicated fans.
Terminator: Resistance (T:R) is the videogame equivalent of those rare straight-to-video sequels.
Make no mistake: Compared to Teyon's latest game, RoboCop: Rogue City, this one is even jankier than Alex Murphy's patrol in Detroit, and is obvious that it was made by a less experienced developer team. Character movement and gunplay are rudimentary, map boundaries on levels are clearly visible, the dialogue and crafting systems are on an absolute basic level, while acting is mediocre at best. Silly bugs, like Terminators getting stuck in map props or sinking in map geometry can also occur.
Still... As an avid fan of the first two Terminator movies, I can't help but notice the diligence and utmost respect that Teyon had towards the source material when working on this game. Because obvious shout-outs and fanservice aside, T:R is a fantastic love letter to the "Future War" scenario of the first two movies - something that, even though many fans wanted to see as a proper James Cameron-movie, had never got the chance to properly experience. Until now.
The game does a stellar job in portraying the bleak post-apocalyptic future of the first two Terminator movies, all the while telling all its key events that lead up to said movies (and sometimes even recreating certain scenes from said movies with near-perfect accuracy). However, story-wise, the game is much more than a string of mere fanservice-y moments: while staying faithful to the source material, it also manages to present a standalone, interesting and emotional story. The latter goes double for the Annihilation Line DLC, which is a beautiful post-apocalyptic road movie in itself, full of nice setpieces, emotional moments, and sympathetic characters.
Gameplay-wise. there's nothing new under the rubble of 2029 Los Angeles. Apart from some linear setpiece maps, the game mostly utilizes semi-linear maps in the fashion of Far Cry 1 and Crysis, offering a couple of side missions to tackle besides the main objectives. Besides rewarding players with XP and various in-game currencies, completing these also improve our standing with the various interactable NPCs, eventually impacting the game's ending. The arsenal is good (every gun has its clear situational use), while the crafting and weapon tuning systems are serviceable - again, there's nothing here that we haven't seen in other games before (often presented in a more polished form, no less), but what we have in the game is enough to work well.
Is it a great game? Objectively speaking, it's not.
Would I recommend it to folks who like action-adventure shooters in general? Not really, as there are better games on the market if you're looking to kill time with that genre.
But would I recommend it for Terminator fans? Without hesitation... Especially if you, like me, love the first two movies, and have always wanted to see more of the post-apocalyptic Future War.