Even when you’re attacking a key Skynet base or taking down a huge war machine, there’s a small reminder after this war isn’t anywhere near over, although since most of this game is about blasting your way through scores of machines with a machine gun it’s not a sobering look at this seemingly endless conflict so much as a way to keep it from going further with the concept than the film of the same name. There are some moments where you can save a few individuals, but the plot does try to not only nail in the inevitable losses of going against such a powerful foe, but the story is mostly about doing what you can to ensure humanity continues on rather than striking the kind of decisive blow that could turn the war. The events between the two missions are both mostly about a mix of survival and trying to strike meaningful blows to Skynet’s forces, but even when your objective is to try and protect a group of humans the robots will end up killing many of them as well as the other soldiers working alongside you. Playing as members of a human resistance in a bleak future controlled by the robots made by Skynet, up to two human players can play using the light gun peripherals to aim at the screen and pull the trigger to shoot exactly where they’re pointing, although the narrative saying you’re the resistance’s leader John Connor doesn’t seem to account for the second player if you are doing the story co-op. Terminator Salvation’s first person shooting action is split into two missions the player can choose from when they first put in their credits although they can be played back to back and both of them consist of multiple small chapters with different enemies and environments. While the Terminator brand is best known for its movies, the Terminator 2: Judgment Day light gun game was a big hit in the arcades around that film’s release and in one of the smarter moves of trying to rejuvenate the brand, a new light gun game was made to coincide with Terminator Salvation as well. In Terminator Salvation, the robot uprising of the future lead by a rampant program known as Skynet was given full focus this time rather than including any element of time travel like the previous films but it didn’t end up paying off for The Halcyon Company and they ended up selling the rights afterwards rather than continuing on with their intended trilogy. In 2009 an effort was made to revive the Terminator film franchise after the third film had left audiences a little cool to the concept back in 2003.
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