#TERMINATOR RESISTANCE PS4 MOVIE#

This game is easily the best Terminator sequel, prequel or spin-off since the second movie but sadly, that’s not saying much. These issues aside, Terminator: Resistance is a surprisingly fun little outing, with an old-school charm that puts you in mind of the halcyon days when first-person shooters ruled the roost, and Terminator 2 was the best film ever made. In the game’s defence, there are a host of other recent releases at which this criticism could be levied (Death Stranding, I’m squinting at you), but this really is becoming a problem for many modern games, and I genuinely can’t fathom why it’s happening it seems developers really don’t want you to sit a sensible distance from a sensibly-sized TV! One major technical gripe is the size of the in-game text. At one point I was locked in a boss arena without the requisite weapon to defeat it, and there was the time I had to reload the game after becoming stuck in – you guessed it – some smouldering ruins. The game feels fairly polished, although I did encounter some glitches. In fact, the Fallout 3 comparisons can be extended to include many of the game’s mechanics: we forage for tradeable resources, barter for better weapons and healing items, accrue experience points for completing side quests that can be invested in increased stats and other perks, and even utilise a lock-picking mechanic that is identical to the Bethesda game. However, once you’ve adjusted to this, the utilitarian visuals quickly become perfectly adequate: the iconic metal endoskeletons of the T800s are suitably chilling as they menacingly patrol amongst smouldering wreckage and crumbling houses that provide a suitably bleak, Fallout 3-style backdrop for the game’s events. Seriously, it put me immediately in mind of Quake 2 – so if you’re after a jaw-dropping Triple-A spectacle, this is most definitely not the game for you. You are cast as Jacob Rivers, a cookie-cutter honourable-soldier-type who is rescued from the blazing ruins of Pasadena by a mysterious stranger in an opening sequence that quickly establishes that the game is a first-person shooter, and that it has incredibly dated graphics.

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