I didn’t think it was possible to kill a Terminator machine. Then again, I’ve never had the opportunity to play as a rebel against the Cyberdyne Systenms machine insurgency. Warner Bros. released an action montage trailer today for Terminator: Salvation that shows all sorts of robot destruction by the hands of a mere man. (You can view it after the break.)
It’s a good show, too. You’ll notice a prolific cover mechanic, not wholly unlike the one employed by Epic with Gears of War. The slippery protagonist of Terminator: Salvation must oil his pants every night before he rests his head on his stone pillow. Dude can really slide behind cement.
He can also blind fire and chuck grenades -- very handy skills when trying to avoid the red-tinted targeting systems of bots. Check out all the insane action in the trailer -- there’s even a school bus thrown in there for good measure -- and tell us what you think. Will this be the next great motion picture tie-in title?
WOW. I was not expecting that. That looks amazing. Looks more polished than Prototype and a few other titles coming out soon. Let's hope it plays as well as it looks.
I agree the potential is there. But I'm definatly waiting to hear some word of mouth and reviews before I decide to pick this up. From that trailer it looked like the ground in the future is covered in butter and the sliding and gunplay looked similar to that new Wanted game. If the gameplay is varied and the game is a good length with some replayability it looks like a hit, but I'm very skeptical with movie based games.
That sliding on the ground got old DURING THE TRAILER. I bet you can't shoot (even shoot blindly) while doing the cover-run at 0:31. What's with the 1920s silent-film speed of the robots? And why are the terminators so weak?
On a more positive note it looks very nice, and could possibly be good!
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9:40 AM on 04.21.2009
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Looks extremely promising to me...
HipHopGamer is right when he said.
That the era of movie games no longer should suck.
On a more positive note it looks very nice, and could possibly be good!
Or let it slowly descend into a pit of molten metal.