Terminator: Resistance (PS4)

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Martin, Matt (November 15, 2019). "Terminator Resistance review: I need your cloaks, your hoofs and your unicycle". VG247. Archived from the original on November 16, 2019 . Retrieved November 18, 2019. Hall, Charlie (November 21, 2019). "The new Terminator game has more sex and Frogger than we expected". Polygon. Archived from the original on November 22, 2019 . Retrieved November 23, 2019. In 2012, a young Jacob is scavenging at the ruins of his father's high school. While rummaging through an old time-capsule, Jacob and his father are discovered by terminators and are chased through the ruins before getting trapped in the sewers nearby. a b "Terminator: Resistance (Xbox One)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on September 6, 2020 . Retrieved November 18, 2019. Hopefully the delay of this upgrade means that the transition from last gen will be smooth and seamless when it does release.

Sure, we’re not talking Far Cry 5 levels of open world scope here, but what is present certainly helps to make Terminator: Resistance feel like a much more meaty offering than it otherwise would. Surprisingly, Terminator Resistance has the sort of non-linear, narrative affecting conversations one might expect to find in Deus Ex or Fallout. Romano, Sal (November 1, 2019). "Terminator: Resistance combat trailer, gameplay, and screenshots; delayed to December 10 in North America". Gematsu. Archived from the original on November 1, 2019 . Retrieved November 1, 2019. New Terminator: Resistance video game is only based on the first two films". Metro UK. September 19, 2019. Archived from the original on September 27, 2019 . Retrieved September 20, 2019. Wilson, Mike (November 5, 2020). " 'Terminator: Resistance' Receives Free DLC, Digital Comic Book". Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on August 11, 2021 . Retrieved August 11, 2021. Ogilvie, Tristan (November 15, 2019). "Terminator: Resistance Review". IGN. Archived from the original on December 18, 2019 . Retrieved November 18, 2019.Following a radio transmission, the group head to Bakersfield despite it being just on the edge of the Annihilation Line's present position. Jacob finds an old man, Anselmo, trapped in a nearby graveyard. After escaping Anselmo confirms that infiltrators had kidnapped the population of the outpost, putting them to work at a nearby production facility. While resting, a Skynet force invades the team's safehouse, with a new HK Centurion walker unit crushing Anselmo as he wakes. After escaping the ambush, Reese reveals the real reason behind their mission, that Jacob's father was among the group of civilians captured from Northridge and that Skynet dedicated significant resources into recapturing them. Agreeing to mount a rescue, the team splits up and individually move into the Annihilation Line with the aim of creating a large diversion to enable an assault on the factory and the work camp the captives are being held in. Again, surprises abound here, not least because I didn’t expect a Terminator game from the folks who brought us the on-rails Rambo shooter to offer up non-linear dialogue, and yet, here we are. The multiple choice mechanism of Terminator Resistance’s conversations have a point too, as some characters will offer you side missions, whilst the decisions you make in some conversations, can actually affect the narrative and the end of the game, resulting in a different endings. Once again, it’s a surprising amount of depth from what I previously assumed might have been a throwaway type affair. Yin-Poole, Wesley (November 18, 2019). "Terminator: Resistance review: a first-person shooter out of time". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on November 19, 2019 . Retrieved November 18, 2019.

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This story takes place in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, nearly 30 years after Judgement Day, and stars a brand new hero in the Terminator universe, Jacob Rivers, a soldier in the Resistance led by John Connor. Despite the fact that Jacob is just a lowly private, he’ll soon discover that he’s been specifically targeted by the latest threat from Skynet and marked for termination! Skynet may be destined to lose the war, but at what cost to Jacob? Experience the events leading up to the decisive final battle for the fate of mankind in the war against the machines! a b "Terminator: Resistance Enhanced". Metacritic. Archived from the original on December 16, 2021 . Retrieved August 11, 2021. Gordon, Rob (December 20, 2021). "Terminator: Resistance Annihilation Line DLC Review - A Concentrated Dose of Action". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on March 18, 2022 . Retrieved March 18, 2022.

The game itself is good. It blends a lot of different ideas together, and while none of them really shine in any way, they are all fine. Regarding the gameplay alone, this game feels like it’s a very well polished game from the Xbox 360 era. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing, but it just had a slightly dated glaze to the way it plays. It feels like Fallout 3 without the VATS system. There are some semi-open areas, there are some more narrow missions, there are some fairly intense cat and mouse missions similar to how Alien Isolation plays. It’s not quite a shooter, it’s not quite an RPG, it’s not quite a horror, but it’s very solid and enjoyable. It does feel a little janky at times due to the budget - some graphical glitches, some design glitches, some super rigid animations, the writing is sometimes pretty awkward, the voice acting is not top shelf, but everything I mentioned in the first paragraph makes up for it all. And yet while the plot is irrelevant some of the storytelling moments are actually quite effective. You play as a red shirt Resistance fighter named Jacob Rivers, who is usually accompanied by two companions; your interactions with them, although predictable, actually do quite well to humanise them and make them seem like real people. a b c Purslow, Matt (September 19, 2019). "Terminator: Resistance Sends Players To The Future War This Year". IGN. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023 . Retrieved September 20, 2019. Terminator: Resistance - Annihilation Line (PS4)". Metacritic. Archived from the original on January 8, 2022 . Retrieved March 18, 2022. GAMES". Reef Entertainment. Archived from the original on December 21, 2019 . Retrieved November 18, 2019. Terminators (Working Title) – Based in the Terminator Universe, fully licensed by Studio Canal.Romano, Sal (December 16, 2020). "Terminator: Resistance Enhanced announced for PS5". Gematsu. Archived from the original on December 16, 2020 . Retrieved December 16, 2020. It's not clear why this expansion isn't coming out for Xbox Series X and S. The announcement mentions the DLC has "dynamic visuals designed to take advantage of the power of the PS5" and you can "feel every pulse of your plasma rifle with the DualSense controller". There's also mention of AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution for the PC version. It doesn't sound to me like the new Xbox consoles aren't capable of running Annihilation Line, at least. Yin-Poole, Wesley (November 18, 2019). "Terminator: Resistance review: a first-person shooter out of time". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023 . Retrieved October 3, 2021. A sixth film in the franchise, Terminator: Dark Fate, was released shortly prior to the game's release, but the game does not have any relation or connection to its plot or characters. [10]

An Enhanced version of Terminator: Resistance came out on PS5 only earlier this year. Owners of Terminator: Resistance on PS4 can upgrade to the PS5 version for free, if you fancy doing that. Another first-person sex scene with video game graphics that wouldn't look out of place on the early days of the Xbox 360. Jennifer groaned and writhed. She took her beanie off for the occasion, which was a nice touch. Her Oblivion face and mouth moved about as if being tugged by an off camera puppeteer, and all I could think of was, is this what Kryten would look like if he was doing it? And had hair? a b Ogilvie, Tristan (December 9, 2021). "Terminator: Resistance Annihilation Line DLC Review". IGN. Archived from the original on March 18, 2022 . Retrieved March 18, 2022.a b Potter, Aaron (December 14, 2021). "Mini Review: Terminator: Resistance Annihilation Line (PS5) – Mediocre Future Fighting Is Still One for the Fans". Push Square. Archived from the original on January 17, 2022 . Retrieved March 18, 2022. Leri, Michael (December 16, 2021). "Terminator: Resistance's Annihilation Line DLC Is Dated, But Still the Only Decent Terminator Gaming Experience". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on March 18, 2022 . Retrieved March 18, 2022.