Terminator Salvation (video game) Review

"Movie video games always suck, this one is no different"

The T4 video game was released with the movie as a tie in to try to promote the movie and the series. The game is a prequel to the movie and follows the story of John Connor and the resistance. Released for PC, PS3, XBOX360 by Swedish developer GRIN.

This is a 3rd person shooter with cover based system compared to Gears of War. Now the company who developed this game (GRIN) is fairly new to video games with a few releases, such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Wanted, another movie adaptation.

This was a very short game, took me one evening to finish it. 8 levels in total and gameplay was very repetitive. Now I've played other short games but they have to be very fun, and display a unique characteristic the sets them apart from the pack. In this short game you run around the wasteland with small arms and get to turret a few vehicles, but only one or the other, not both. Way to linear for me...

The Good:

Story that fits in well with the franchise. Got voices from a couple cast members, Moon Bloodgood, Common and Rose McGowen from the movie.

The Bad:

Took me 3 hours to beat in Hard mode. Just fair graphics for a 2009 game. Levels feel the same with different backdrop.

The Ugly:

No replay value at all. Christain Bale refused to have his voice in the video game. (Jerk)

I would not recommend anyone buying this game... This game was more a Demo then a finished product.

Jizzay

Terminator Salvation Review

“Summer movies are here"

I went to see Terminator Salvation (aka T4) after reading bad reviews from critics. So I went into this film with not expecting much... This movie has a lot of action and great special effects. The destruction of LA looks in my mind what a post apocalyptic LA would look like. (That or just a normal Tuesday) I was impressed with the use of my favorite machine, the A-10 warthog. I would have just gone to see it because it’s the best military Aircraft IMHO.I am a big fan of the original 2 terminator movies, the 3 one was OK. But I enjoyed this one a lot. Not to deep not too much plot but it just made sense. No misplaced humor in a world where you fight to survive. Some intense action films love to throw in the humor to of set the bad action or shaky cam scenes, not this one.

The Good:

The SKYNet motorcycles were awesome, and the use of the A-10’s were very well placed. The giant machine reminded me of MechWarrior and the Dropships kind of resembled Dropships from Command and Conquer.



The Bad:

Christian Bale (Main character John Connor) was nothing special but the machines stole the show and it was a good show. No spectacular Nuke display’s like in the previews…

The Ugly:

Critics.

Without giving too much away this film was a good action flick. I was going to give it 3.5 out of 5 stars but I bumped it up to 4 stars because of the good old warthog. Coming soon is my review for the Terminator Salvation Game.

Jizzay