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There is no fate but what YOU make. Experience the events leading up to the decisive final battle for the fate of mankind in the war against the machines. Terminator: Resistance, is a first-person shooter set during the 'Future War' scenario that was only glimpsed at in the iconic films, 'THE TERMINATOR' and 'T2: JUDGMENT DAY'. The machines are destined to lose, but at what cost? Run and gun or sneak and hack through Skynet’s defences! Level up your skills and explore a post-apocalyptic world for scraps to trade and craft! Interact with a motley group of survivors and change their fates!
Steam User 674
Now that this game, and RoboCop: Rogue City have been a success, please make a Judge Dredd game.
Steam User 183
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.
Steam User 95
This is a game that Every Terminator fan should play.
Sure thing; it's a AA game from a small Polish studio without the ressources of a big publisher but you know what? They get it...
This guys get what made The Terminator movies a franchise with such a legacy. This guys understand the essence, the source material, the world, the tone and what fans love about it even more than Holliwood does after the last horrendous iterations.
This has more value that whatever half-assed reviewer on some online magazine tells you about the game while giving it a 6/10 in his review.
TL;DR... Are you a Terminator fan? Then this is the game you have been waiting for for years.
And once you are done, jump to "Robocop: Rogue city", from this same studio. Because, for real... these guys GET IT!
Steam User 98
This budget mid-tier game is the best and the most sincere Terminator anything since forever, maybe even since T2.
I don't know whether to congratulate the developer of mourn the sad state of this gоdforsaken series.
Steam User 95
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.
Steam User 63
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.
Steam User 47
Alongside RoboCop: Rogue City, this is one of the most refreshing and entertaining shooters I've played in a long time.
Gameplay is simple and so is the RPG system.
Sure, it could've been better in terms of everything, I guess, but this is a game for those Terminator fans who want to shoot terminators, not spend time picking skills and perks in an over-complicated RPG system.
I suspect the devs knew this very well and they delivered exactly what was expected, in both cases.
I can't recommend this enough.