The Terminator: Rampage

The Good
The great part of this game is that it's simple, and not like watching a movie. The game literally throws you into the action and keeps you there. The story of this game is that you are a battle hardened urban commando sent back from 2029 to 1988. Skynet found another way to crush humanity, by taking over a secret base holding skynet in it's infancy somewhere in the rocky mountains. Thus you are sent to stop the meta-node that has taken control. The great thing is that now Dos-box is up and running, terminator: rampage is from what I've tested, fully supported by the emulator.

The Bad
There are very few aspects of this game I don't like but there are a few. For one, the scenery can get a little repetitive, but you don't really notice until future levels. Another thing was how slow the frame-rate was, obviously bethesda didn't take the time to iron that out.

The Bottom Line
If you are into the terminator franchise, and like action games that that sweep you off your feet and into the action, I would have to say give this under-looked title a try. And if you like doom, chances are you'll like this game as well.

The Good
The game followed Wolf3D in that you have to locate a key in a maze-like structure in order to advance to the next floor/area. Finding keys was a pretty cool thing, in my opinion, because it gave you a objective and you know what to look for on each floor.

The arsenal you controlled in this game was fairly cool. You got everything from a pistol, machine guns, all the way to a futuristic weapon (you had to find each component of the weapon in order to get it). The gun play in this game was excellent.

Other cool things included a awesome interface (at the time I thought). If you hovered your crosshair over a enemy, information came back to you explaining the enemy detail. The information was pretty useless as all you had to do was shoot until the machine blew up, but nonetheless, it was a cool feature to add to the game.

The Bad
In this game you are in a office building. It was horribly implemented. The levels were big and too cramped in my opinion. It was incredibly hard to navigate in this game because the areas were so huge that it turned into nothing more than trying to solve a maze.

It took an alarming amount of bullets to kill something. I understand that Terminators were meant to be hard to kill, but at least there could have been a good supply of ammo throughout the game. If I remembered right, you got a lead pipe, which was pretty much useless.

The Bottom Line
If you are a die-hard Terminator fan, get this game. It's pretty cool if you can look past the mazes. Overally, I was happy with this game.

The Good
The storyline was great, you go back from Los Angeles of 2029 to 1984, to stop a reworked Terminator T-800 from updating SKYNET (as opposed to Microsoft who WANTS you to update Windows xD), after royally whupping it in The Terminator:2029. You get a lot of weapons, such as the 9mm "class", the Uzi and the Beretta pistol. The machine gun "class" like the M-16 and the AK-47 and the "Heavy Weapons" class, such as the SPAS-12 shotgun, the Mini-Cannon, the Grenade Launcher and the plasma gun. Plus some are customizable (a big PLUS), so if you really want to whip a T-800 Infiltrator, just crank that plasma gun up to 200 and BAM

The Bad
Don't make me laugh. I loved it all.

The Bottom Line
Before its time (really), The Terminator Rampage is 32 levels of mechanical destruction. Go get 'em, soldier.