Terminator 2: Judgment Day

"Oh dear god..."

Who thought this game would be any good? I mean, the arcade Light gun game that was made for T2 was great! But this, just sucks bad. I know its a sidescrolling shooter, but that doesn't make a game bad. What makes it bad is the stiff and horrid controls, the poor graphics and hit detection, the lack of indication as to what to do half the time, and the total lack of anything new or interesting. It's a pathetic overdone shooter style. On to the main review!

Story: 7/10
Meh it's the same as the movie kinda, but it seems tired today. But, the story has little to do with the game. But...

Controls:1/10
...the controls most certainly do. First, you have movement, punch, and a knee move. May I say the melee attacks have poorer hit detection than the Atomic Bases in Star Fox? The guns you get later work fine however, you can aim in 7-8 directions. Now, you can jump, but at far as things go it's completely useless. There is no point in the game (that I've found) that you need to jump and the jump is just pathetic. I though DK Junior had a weak jump. If you stand still and jump, you jump what looks like a foot or so. If you're moving, you'll do a shorter jump, but you go a tad faster, so it's mildly useful as a pesudo run. Now, it took me forever to figure this out, but you have to crouch down to pick things up. Also while crouching you can't punch/knee. Not like you need to, those moves suck. At least you can shoot while crouched. Now, the driving parts are just god awful. For like 2 hours I couldn't figure out were to go. All I knew was that down makes you do a 180, and I couldn't figure out how to really turn. Now, I auto turned at the end of roads, and there were two ways I could go on each one so I assumed it was a mazeish setup. Later, I firgured out that holding Y while pushing on edges of turns makes you turn. Sure... give me no hint. Let me guess. Anyway, the cars have HORRID A.I. If they reach a dead end, they 180 and drive on THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD! Wouldn't really matter, because trust me you should just stay in the middle on the yellow line. But they will crash into other cars and get in your way. Also, the way you strafe along the road doesn't depend on the way you're facing. I'm driving up and right and right goes up and LEFT! Left goes down and right! WHO DECIDED THAT WOULD WORK! Oh, and another thing...

Graphics-1/10
In the sidescrolling parts they are meh, but in driving parts they make my eyes bleed. You as a biker look like 12 pixels that have been aranged to look vaguely like a guy on a bike. The cars look bad too.

Gameplay:1/10

Ug... just bad bad bad. You get no hints as to what to do. At one point I'm in a room, I see another room on top of it. I can't firgure out how to get there for weeks, and I need to to get the last future object and complete the mission. Guess what? There's a ladder, which I didn't know what was for. Turns out you SHOOT IT! Hmm... ya I would really think that. I have an invincable enemy following me (The T-1000. After like 2 shotgun blasts he melts then reapears right after...)... hey wait. People are shooting you, throwing knives, and some times punching or stabing you. And they beat the crap out of you. What happened? The Terminator is unfazed by worthless bullets, much less knives and fists. This doesn't follow the movie at all! But furthur, you have one life only, so if you die (which isn't hard to do) you have to start ALL OVER! There aren't even any passwords that I know of. Plus, shots don't knock you back, nothing does. This would be nice in some games were you need to jump and stuff screws you up (I.E. Castlevania and medusa heads) but in this game you don't need to jump! So, you hardly notice things hiting you because the bullets in this game are near invisible, so you die often until you are checking your health every 3 seconds. I mean, you get 50% back if you lose it all in the sidescrolling part, but that doesn't last long. Your health in driving parts does down in 30s and 40s. Who beta tested this? Cheech?

Replay factor: 1/10

I havent managed to beat this piece of crap yet, not because I suck, I beat far harder games. This game is hard for dumb reasons like stiff controls and poor design. Games like this further push the liecensed games suck factor. Some were good, like The Lawnmower Man, and were well designed and thought out. This, just feels like a rushed project like E.T. for the Atari 2600.

Should I get this?

Uh... no... you will lose your mind at the suckage.

Overall (not an average) 1/10

Poor visuals + poor controls + useless moves (I.E. Jumping) + no hint at all as to means to complete objectives= CRAP! Don't buy this, warn others off. Don't even try a ROM, it'll make your computer's ram go bad and burn out the motherboard it's so poor. Plus that's illegal anyway, and why break the law for such a piece of junk?

-ajcomix

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 01/02/07