Terminator: Resistance

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 7 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

0
Average:

1
Bad:

6

6.0

User Score

Based on 3,894 reviews
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Pros:

A decent entry into the Terminator franchise
Variety of weapons to use and skills to improve
Terminator encounters create tension

Cons:

Enemies are boring bullet sponges
A clearly miniscule budget ensures almost laughably bad graphics and AI

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Last revision on November 21, 2019

Reviewers Liked

A decent entry into the Terminator franchise
Variety of weapons to use and skills to improve
Terminator encounters create tension

Reviewers Didn't Like

Enemies are boring bullet sponges
A clearly miniscule budget ensures almost laughably bad graphics and AI
Poor writing and performances

Expert reviews and ratings

Turning the Terminator franchise into an enjoyable game experience should be doable, but not on the budget Teyon have tried to do it on. Last-gen issues make this a time traveller that nobody wanted to come back.

By tsa on November 21, 2019

Terminator Resistance suffers from a chronic lack of charm that can't even be saved by evoking its hallowed source material.

By God is a Geek on November 20, 2019

For a title set far into the future, Terminator: Resistance remains disappointingly locked into the past. With lackluster design, story, dialogue, AI, and combat, Terminator: Resistance is a genre example generations out of time. A full-price game offering a budget-price experience just makes it harder to recommend. No one can accuse Resistance of lacking potential, even ambition, but even the most dedicated Terminator fan should wait on a discount, or perhaps say Hasta la Vista altogether.

By Destructoid on November 19, 2019

The most disappointing thing about Terminator: Resistance isn’t merely that it’s bad, it’s that it’s bad and yet it’s probably still the best Terminator game I’ve ever played. If you’re in the mood to mindlessly mow down waves of authentically modelled T-800s to the rhythm of Brad Fiedel’s iconic theme music, then Terminator: Resistance may well be adequate enough. But while there might already be a truly great Terminator game in some alternate universe’s timeline, in this one the wait continues.

By IGN on November 18, 2019

Terminator: Resistance is the kind of shooter-meets-RPG hybrid you've seen a dozen times before, and isn't a particularly impressive one. But everything it does, it does well enough to pass. I can't bring myself to hate Terminator: Resistance, I think it's a fun, cheesy game, but I also wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I recommended that anyone bought it at full price.

By WCCFTech on November 18, 2019

If you’re a fan of the Terminator franchise and are after a single-player experience that lets you faithfully enter its world, you won’t be disappointed with Terminator: Resistance. Even its story is pretty good. Just don’t go in expecting a big-budget epic, because that’s not what it is. It’s simply a budget game with a fair amount of soul.

By GameSpew on November 18, 2019

There’s the endoskeleton of a good movie adaptation here, but with dire graphics, dull combat, and tedious missions this low budget shooter is very easy to resist.

By Metro UK on November 15, 2019

It feels like the developers of Terminator: Resistance had this thought, too, but couldn't see it through. At the beginning of the game, when you've only got non-plasma weapons at your disposal, the T-800s carry a real threat and you're forced to play stealthily. The best level in the game, set inside a hospital in which Terminators perform horrific experiments on humans, is a stealth mission that approaches nerve-wracking. But as you progress through the campaign, level up your character and upgrade your plasma weapons, you overpower the enemies and it's downhill from there. Ah well. A pipe dream, perhaps, unlike the nightmare that is Terminator: Resistance.

By EuroGamer on November 18, 2019