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Bad, real bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was actually looking forward to playing Terminator 3 on the PS2 and had high expectations for it, just like I had had with the Enter the Matrix game earlier this year. And once again, just like with Enter the Matrix, I should have known better. Everything about this game is bad, real bad. The entire game just seems so poorly pieced together that it comes off as a hack job. The graphics are bland with chunky polygons, the controls are clunky, the missions are boring and repetitive, and the game all together is too easy. There are extras to unlock such as CG segments and actual scenes deleted from the film, but nothing here is worth laying down hard earned money for whether it's purchase or a rental. The mediocre Terminator: Dawn of Fate was better than this dud. All in all, Terminator fans should stay far away from this game, which is yet another licensed dud.

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 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).

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.

Boring, Hard To Control And Way Too Easy!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is dark, dank, gritty and boring! The controls are extremely hard to master because you have to use both of the analog sticks to walk and turn and aim all at the same time. The graphics are cool and so are the actor's voice overs, but that's the only redeeming uality about this lame-fest! Don't buy this waste of $50, wait for the next one to come out, that game is going to rock!

Wait for Repemption

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: December 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I gave this game a rent and decided not to buy it. The positive is the game is the first game to play as Arnold. We get his voice and his likeness. It also includes cool CG cutscenes that answer a couple questions about the movie. It is a first person shooter using a variety of weapons against the forces of skynet plus some hand to hand combat with the T-X. The bad this game is filled with so so many glitches. This games graphics are dreamcast quality at best. Bad edging, poor resolution, and terrible beyond belief cameras. Bumping into something often causes you to turn the opposite direction where it takes a few minutes to get back on track. This is both stupid and frustrating. Glitches run all around. Objects often dissappear after being hit, you can climb stairs without touching them, and explosions are very bad. After you go in the past the only thing you do with your gun is shoot cops in the leg. Arnold and Krisstana Loken make a deal in the making of feature about it being there likeness but it realy doesn't look like them and doesn't do the movie all the justice. This game out have been much better if they worked on it more. As it is the game is unfinished and unworthy. Worth a rental not a buy. One thing I have to applaud the game for is it has DTS sound in gameplay. It is the only game I know of that does this which makes it revolutionary and it provides and excellent surround sound feel. Still I wish whatever work making the sound so excellent should have gone into making the graphics and gameplay not so unfinished. It includes a playable demo for a new Terminator game called Terminator 3 Repemtion. This game demo and far far superior graphics and gameplay to the actual game. From what I see in this demo Terminator 3 Repemption is everything I wanted this game to be. It will be out in summer 2004 I am waiting for it and so should you. As for this game worth a rental not a buy.

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

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.

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.

Oh Yeah!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Finally a chance to be the Terminator! This is cool! I paid full price for this game, and I still think it was worth it - even though I see amazon.com is already giving $20 off now. I played from Friday night to Sunday night and beat the game on the Easy level. I enjoyed the destruction and the actual actors from the third movie doing the voices.

I don't see why gamespot's reviewers gave it such a low rating. I also can't figure out why some of the reviewers here say you can play as a human? Would someone please tell me how?

If you enjoyed the Terminator series and/or enjoy first person shooter games, you should give this one a try. Nice weapon selection - I finally got a chance to use a Phase Plasma Rifle (I assume it was a 40-watt range model).

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