THE TRUE HORROR OF A TERMINATOR

"I wonder if I can control those turrets with a hacking device."
Nearby terminator looks at him
"Crap, did I say that out loud?!"

Having a weapon and feeling useless to fight is such an underrated horror tool. I Only love stealth games when it makes sense to use stealth!

Yeah, the resistance fighter in the surgical torture chair is modelled like a young Robert Patrick/T-1000. Nice easter egg/franchise tie-in.

One of the few games in which the devs have totally nailed the atmosphere. Another one is Alien: Isolation.

Every enemy up until meeting the first T-800 took damage from all my weapons. I remember looking at the T-800 shooting it with the assault rifle and just repeatedly seeing "Weapon Ineffective" notification as it walked towards me and started shooting. I bolted back into the vent, watched it BEND DOWN and start firing into the vent 😂 I was freaking out and geeking at the same time about how lore accurate it was.

Hiding from machines designed to kill sounds terrifying.

A blink and you’ll miss it moment at 4:05 he says that’s a member of the resistance hinting at the fact that the T1000 AKA Robert Patrick was once a resistance member that was operated on to become a Terminator Advance Prototype.

I always wondered who has time to light so many small fires...

When I first played this, my heart started pounding when I saw that first T-800 dragging the dead resistance soldier, and the music kicking in just added to the intensity. I was so scared of what would happen if I was caught, I practically stopped breathing as I tried to focus, and I didn't even want to try and shoot them as I had no idea if any of my weapons could do anything to them.

I know what this feels like, played this game quite a bit and just waiting there behind a corner in the dark, trying to dodge a T-800 is extremely nerve racking.

It's a damn good thing that this game is still relying on an 80's vision of the future. I mean, a single T-800 with thermal vision or cluster computing all the units into one single hive consciousness could've made everything in this video completely impossible.

If they made a Terminator game using the same AI as Alien Isolation, it would be horrifically intense. I'd love to see it.

A terminator survival game would be cool ngl

Holy Sh!t you are all awesome

They really nailed the dread a Terminator has. It's just like what Kyle said in the first movie, the Terminator is an efficient killing machine. It cannot be bargained nor reasoned nor tricked, it will not stop until it kills you. Basic weapons don't even hurt it, high caliber bullets won't faze it, the endoskeleton can tank an explosive and still move. Your only hope of defense is a plasma rifle.
And that's not to mention there are those which can perfectly mimic human movements and blend in. Pretty sure there are T-800 models which look like ordinary people, not Arnold Schwarzenegger. Ordinary average citizen, it could be a child, it could be a crippled person, and you'd never know.

This game rewards you for remembering stuff from the movies.

So I am so glad I came prepared with a handful of pipebombs and maxed my hacking as high as possible for this stage. Turrets helped a lot, and choosing 2-3 T-800s in your path to blow up helped with an escape route.

Didn't make it less terrifying though.

This is incredible. Everything is really consistent with the first two movies. It still keeps that noir, retro-future atmosphere. This is what the movie franchise should’ve became after the first two.

How come none of the sequels ever came close to anything like this?

What's funny is at 4:07 you can clearly see that the man in the chair is the t-1000 from T2 judgement day.

I would love to see a State of Decay style game in the Terminator future. Scanning new recruits , going out to scavenge and dodging terminators, building your base

the idea of being hunted by a machine that nigh on near indestructable is terrifying as it doesnt sleep, it doesnt feel pain, can think of many ways to lure, kill and hunt is just creepy and scary at the same time. i even thought it can find you in your sleep and kill you painfully without you even knowing what happend or how it found you