You spend the majority of your time in Terminator Salvation on foot, moving from location to location and dispatching mechanical menaces along the way. Unfortunately, the action isn't as diverse as the environments. Now Playing: Terminator Salvation Video Review You can move this impressively modeled head around (and make it nod in response to silly questions), but its piercing red glare soon becomes an unavoidable reminder that you are sitting through yet another loading screen.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's It's interesting to make your way through the various conflict-ravaged locations, but your progress is frequently interrupted by fairly long loading screens that give you a close-up view of the iconic Terminator face. The thoughtful and detailed environments do a better job of setting the postapocalyptic stage.
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There are a lot of cutscenes (sometimes too many) that help lend the game a cinematic feel, but the not-so-great character models and general blurriness keep them from feeling dramatic. The story chronicles a particularly foolhardy mission, and it does a reasonably good job of depicting John Connor on his journey from foot soldier to leader of humankind. The game is set two years before the events of the movie, and though it features some of the actors from the film, Christian Bale is notably absent. Suffice it to say, it isn't worth it, and even Terminator fans looking for a weekend rental should prepare for disappointment.
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It's a sparse effort, yet it is brazenly offered at full retail price. The campaign is only about five hours long, there is no online component, and the only multiplayer option is playing the campaign in split-screen mode. This quickly becomes repetitive despite the fact that the environments are diverse and detailed, and the few on-rails sequences fail to inject any substantial excitement into the proceedings. Most of the game has you jogging from skirmish to skirmish, fighting the same three enemies and using the same cover-and-flank maneuver.
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Though this third-person shooter is technically sound, it seems to rely entirely on the presumption that you'll be so jazzed to be playing as characters from the movie that you won't notice how boring and shallow the action is. If you've ever wondered why movie tie-in games have such a bad reputation, Terminator Salvation can provide an instructive example.