Terminator: Salvation

by Warner Bros

Product Features

• New Installment of Terminator Mythology is set two years prior to the upcoming Terminator Salvation film, players will get the opportunity to be John Connor for the first time and continue the epic fiction of the Terminator mythology.
• Unrelenting and incredibly resilient robotic enemies from the Terminator franchise fight to the bitter end on land and in the sky. Designed to pursue the player by any means necessary, enemies will literally claw their way forward to inflict harm.
• Advanced destructible cover gameplay will incorporate cover mechanics which allows players to use the destructible environment as protection to strategically navigate through enemy territory.
• Diverse Array of Advanced Weaponry: The player has access to a wide array of weapons including shotguns, fully automatic machine guns, huge mounted weaponry, grenades, rocket-launchers and even a plasma firing Skynet tank.
• Rugged Armored Vehicles Gun Fights: Pursue, attack, or evade enemies through post-apocalyptic environments on foot or inside rugged armored vehicles in extremely kinetic and extensive cinematic gun battles.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B001NJ28ZM
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: May 24, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,079 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #13 in Video Games > PC Games > Action > Fighting

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Product Description

In Terminator: Salvation, you are John Connor, a soldier in this post-apocalyptic world, and it's up to you to lead your squad of loyal fighters in a desperate battle for survival against the superior forces of Skynet and its deadly Terminators. Use the environment and objects in it to provide cover and protection as the T-600 and T-7T shoot relentlessly at you and your squad from all angles and the lethal Aerostat blasts you from above. Fully destructible cover system. View larger. AI and human co-op support. View larger. Extensive list of weapons and vehicles. View larger. Story Terminator: Salvation is a prequel to the events of the major motion picture of the same name. It is two years after Judgment Day--the date that the Terminator mythology assigns to the nuclear event that the machines will rain down on planet Earth--and what's left of humanity is caught in a life and death struggle against that same machine intelligence that sprung to life from the former defense super computer known as Skynet. Yet things are not quite what the the earlier chapters in the Terminator saga had predicted for these days. Although over the last two years human survivors of the catastrophe have prepared and organized themselves for the ongoing battle with the machines, John Connor, the character that the player assumes, has yet to emerge as the legendary hero he was foretold to be, and time is running out. In its early nuclear strikes against humanity, Skynet damaged part of itself. It has spent the last two years rebuilding its strength as well in order to complete its mission of the extermination of the human race. Now is the time to strike back at the machines. Now is the time for you and John Connor to take command. Gameplay and Co-op Support Action in Terminator: Salvation is from a third-person perspective and relies heavily on the use of cover. Correspondingly players will be able to lock on to cover, dive or slide from one cover point to the next and fire weapons without exposing themselves to return fire, but this doesn't mean that combat is easy. Cover is fully destructible in the game, meaning that your mechanical enemies will attempt to take that advantage away from you if they recognize that you are dug in. They will also make every attempt to flank your position. These two points are important because Terminator: Salvation forces you to take care of yourself in its single player campaign by not featuring a health regeneration system between checkpoints (health is fully restored at the end of survived levels). But health can be regenerated during combat via an AI or human teammate anytime when playing in the game's local co-op mode. The ability to team up in co-op mode is also a major aspect of gameplay in that it allows players to turn the tables on terminator units by flanking them and attacking their less heavily armored sides rather than head on. Both single player and co-op modes also feature access to vehicles which can be battled from as well. Key Features Terminator Mythology - Set two years prior to the upcoming Terminator Salvation film, play as John Connor for the first time and continue the epic fiction of the Terminator mythology. Intelligent Robotic Enemies - Unrelenting and incredibly resilient iconic enemies from the Terminator franchise fight to the bitter end on land and in the sky. Destructible Cover Gameplay - Advanced cover mechanics allows you to use the destructible environment as protection and strategically navigate through enemy entrenched territory. The cover mechanic's multifaceted design changes the way "cover" gameplay is executed. Diverse Weaponry - Utilize a wide array of advanced weapons including shotguns, fully automatic machine guns, huge mounted weaponry, grenades, rocket-launchers, and even a plasma-firing Skynet tank. Rugged Vehicle Battles - Pursue, attack, or evade enemies through post-apocalyptic environments on foot or inside rugged armored vehicles in extremely kinetic and extensive cinematic gun battles. 2-Player Local Co-op Mode - Battle through post-Judgment Day LA with a friend in local co-op play.

Product Description

Based on the upcoming Terminator Salvation film from Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures, Terminator Salvation the videogame offers players the chance to assume the role of John Connor, a soldier in the resistance, battling for survival against the far superior forces of Skynet. Terminator Salvation the videogame is an intense action-packed third-person shooter featuring concentrated armed combat against all of the Skynet enemies from the film and new killer machines specifically designed for the game. Taking place two years before the events of the upcoming film set in a post apocalyptic, decimated Los Angeles, players will be lead through a visceral, story and character driven gaming experience.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BEYOND SALVATION..., May 23, 2009

By 

NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Terminator Salvation (DVD-ROM)

When a brand new game simply refuses to install you know someone screwed up. When this is caused, yet again, by its overzealous DRM scheme, the person who screwed up was probably sitting in a board room rather than writing code in front of a screen.

Now a Retail Recall is in place by EVOLVED GAMES: online orders will be delayed and retail sales (eventually) replaced. It is the decent thing to do but this horse got shot in the foot at the gate. Is anyone still betting on it?
More importantly, we still don't know whether the replacements will fare any better(!). I returned my copy for store credit (a compromise for the unwrapped box and the fact that the manager was yet unaware of the recall).

Yeah, pretty much terminated...

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Terminator Salvation, a let down., June 6, 2009

By 

J. Jorgenson (Corona, CA United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Terminator Salvation (DVD-ROM)

Aside from the DRM scheme and the botched DVD burns from the distributor this game felt rushed.

Grin's Diesel Game Engine actually made the post apocalyptic Los Angeles look fairly good. Too bad the enemies were few and the play repetitive. There was so much potential to make this game a gem but alas it felt as if the developers rushed this title to market in order to have a release date prior to the movie opening.

There were brief levels where vehicular play came into focus and that actually did have a fun feel to it but those missions were too few and far between. The game itself was played out in less than four hours so to pay the full price is robbery.

All in all skip this title and hopefully if and when Grin releases an SDK you can make your own Terminator Salvation game that can be fun.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Defective Disk Warning, June 4, 2011

By 

JFH - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Terminator Salvation (DVD-ROM)

The disk I received was sealed, in new condition, and shipped directly from Amazon, but was apparently the defective version that as initially released by the manufacturer in 2009 would not install. Received the same error attempting to install on five different PCs with 4 different operating systems (XP, Vista, Win 7 32-bit, Win 7 64-bit), diverse CPUs (up to an Intel Core i7), and different graphics cards (up to an EVGA GTX 560 Ti). Although Amazon provided a refund, it does not compensate for the frustration and hours of wasted time. Recommend not purchasing this game until/unless Amazon can ensure that the disks they ship are not from the defective release.

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