When this game had originally popped onto my radar, I planned to rent it simply because it was a movie game and you can never really tell how good they are going to be. However, when in HMV  the other day, I noticed that they were selling it for £35 but if you traded in Xmen Origins: Wolverine, you get £25 off. So I took them up on their offer, because it’s got to be worth the £10 right? Well, not really.

I never really had high expectations for this game, but these were simply confirmed within the first few minutes of playing the game.

You are pretty much thrown straight into combat at the beginning of the game and pretty quickly you realise that it’s very similar to the Gears of War games. You have to follow a set course around the area until you come to a series of barricades where you can anticipate combat. You can take cover behind these barricades and then quickly move from other to the other to try and flank your enemies, very Gears style.

After you have wiped out your enemies that all seem to have quite obvious weaknesses, you normally enter a cut scene where you basically just walk to the next combat section. The point about the weaknesses is pretty odd really. So Skynet can realise that the biggest enemy to the human race is the human race, but they can’t figure out to cover the little battery pack on the backs of their machines.

While I’m on the subject of the machines, there’s not a huge variety of them, just like your weapons. There are the Aerobots which fly around and can be one shot using a shot gun, a spider which can be easily taken down from behind, a T-600 I think it is, these are the toughest things but nothing a couple of RPGs won’t take down. Those are you major enemies, and then in 1 mission you see some sort of bike machines and in another you see the HK’s, Hunter Killers, which are also taken down with a few RPGs.

As for your range of weapons, you have the basic assault rifle which isn’t wonderful, I got rid of it as soon as possible. You also have the shotgun which is pretty good, the RPG, grenade launcher and a light machine gun which basically acts as a more powerful assault rifle. As for grenades, you have a standard grenade which is ok against the spiders if it’s a direct hit but not very effective against anything else. You also have the pipe bombs which are great against everything except you can only hold 2 at a time and they are quite rare to begin with.

The graphics of the game are not wonderful. I’m not sure if the in-game John Connor is meant to look like the John Connor in the film, Christian Bale, but he doesn’t really, except for the hair cut I guess. The overall look of the game is quite poor, they seem to have put alot of effort into making him walk like a woman instead of making his mouth actually move correctly when he talks. I have also noticed a few bugs here and there, one recent one being where a spider was walking across a court yard, and instead of moving it’s legs, it sort of pinged to where it would be if it was walking.

One thing I must say that is good is your team mates. Throughout the game you have a small team, some of which can die, others like Blair can’t. But what is useful about them is that they actually do damage. I have come across many games where your team mates simply miss or the hits that they do make do absolutely no damage. This means that if you’re in a spot of bother, you can take cover and wait until the enemies are focusing on your team mates.

Overall I can’t say that the game was good, it provided a few hours game play and it was something different, possibly worth renting. However, I would not recommend anyone pay the £40 price tag for it. The only thing the game is really good for is achievements. In total there are 11. 9 for each of the chapters which give you 80G, and another 2 for completing the game on different difficulties. You can easily get the 1000/1000 score in one sitting on the hardest difficulty.

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