Why Terminator Resistance Is Embraced By Fans Despite Mediocre Reviews

00:00:01.360terminator resistance is a surprise

00:00:03.649little game that you may believe just

00:00:05.180call window when it was initially

00:00:06.830announced just a few short months ago it

00:00:08.959was pretty quickly written off because

00:00:10.759it was from the people that brought us

00:00:12.259the last Rambo game which was a pretty

00:00:14.509rough and not very fun on Rails shooter

00:00:16.550with a seemingly low budget yet

00:00:18.740Terminator resistance is here and it's

00:00:20.509actually kind of worth talking about

00:00:22.460sure critic reviews haven't been so hot

00:00:25.939at all and to be honest after playing

00:00:28.220some of it you can understand some of

00:00:30.199the complaints but despite all that

00:00:32.509working against it it looks like it's

00:00:34.250selling it was fairly decently on Steam

00:00:36.620and it currently has almost 700 reviews

00:00:39.350on the steam page and is listed as very

00:00:41.870positive which is quite a thing for a

00:00:44.149game on Steam to have so why are

00:00:46.640Terminator fans seemingly loving the new

00:00:48.770game well let's just take a very quick

00:00:50.719look now at first glance it seems like

00:00:53.660terminator resistance succeeds because

00:00:55.609it gives fans exactly what they want a

00:00:58.340terminator game after Judgment Day

00:01:00.649focusing on the war with the machines

00:01:02.269and we've gotten this in the past to

00:01:04.580various degrees of success but there

00:01:06.710have been a lot of misses not only that

00:01:08.810there have also been a lot of misses

00:01:11.240with the movies and yet here we are with

00:01:13.130a game that kind of celebrates the

00:01:14.540franchise you're a lost resistance

00:01:16.340member working his way through a

00:01:17.659post-apocalyptic Greater Los Angeles

00:01:19.220California in the future

00:01:21.320you're Jakob rivers it's 2028 you're

00:01:24.110stranded in Pasadena at the start and

00:01:26.180you quickly get grouped up with some

00:01:28.189survivors and eventually fall in with a

00:01:30.170new unit and start shooting stuff you

00:01:32.390end up hunting down and meeting up with

00:01:34.040a scientist who figures out how to hack

00:01:36.140Skynet and reprogram their units to

00:01:38.540fight on your side does that sound

00:01:40.430familiar this is all happening while

00:01:42.799Skynet is starting to make time

00:01:44.630displacement technology aka they're

00:01:47.000figuring out how to time travel and do

00:01:49.100all of that dastardly Skynet stuff now

00:01:51.409mild mild spoilers but you eventually

00:01:53.780end up falling in with John Connor

00:01:55.939himself and attack a major Skynet hub

00:01:59.119where their time travel technology is

00:02:01.009being held like in minutes leading right

00:02:04.579up to the movies and and where the

00:02:06.350terminators get set it's surprisingly

00:02:08.630cool like it adds in stuff with this guy

00:02:11.750Jacob rivers

00:02:12.680it doesn't really do anything crazy

00:02:14.689ridiculous or like super new or weird to

00:02:17.599mess with the existing Terminator lore

00:02:19.340or Canon if you can even call it the

00:02:21.620lore or the Canon anymore since it's

00:02:23.480already kind of a mess so like it

00:02:25.010doesn't really rock the boat but it does

00:02:26.810kind of slot in as a nice little bit of

00:02:30.019extra stuff a little extra Ness kind of

00:02:32.810serve similar to the Terminator

00:02:34.220Salvation comics yes those were a thing

00:02:36.769and they weren't too bad

00:02:38.359Terminator resistance here serves as a

00:02:40.519nice addition that just kind of

00:02:42.109complements and hangs out rather than

00:02:44.209disrupts you know the setting is perfect

00:02:46.549the game has a lot of nighttime scenes

00:02:48.819t800 czar out about killing everything

00:02:51.379and hunter killers are flying through

00:02:52.790the sky just like they did in those

00:02:54.409iconic movie shots there are humans

00:02:56.810hiding out and bombed out basements that

00:02:58.790look very much like the places Kyle

00:03:00.950Reese walked through in the first movie

00:03:02.750a t800 infiltrator in the opening our

00:03:04.909intro is straight up dressed up like our

00:03:07.159old Schwarzenegger like a little bits of

00:03:08.480dialogue here and there or reworked

00:03:09.859callbacks to the first two movies stuff

00:03:12.230like this this is like genuine

00:03:14.150Terminator charm it makes up for a game

00:03:16.639that's just okay you know like the

00:03:18.889shooting works it's fine it doesn't feel

00:03:21.139great there's not much kick to it or

00:03:22.940recoil or just genuinely satisfying

00:03:24.980feedback the stealth and creeping around

00:03:27.620the world can be a bit lame when you're

00:03:29.180facing off against some of the less

00:03:30.500interesting enemies that aren't cool

00:03:32.120terminators voice acting is all over the

00:03:34.730place some of the moment-to-moment

00:03:35.720gameplay is actually just a bit

00:03:37.280forgettable especially in the early

00:03:39.379hours the game can just feel like a

00:03:41.359little tedious and boring thanks to like

00:03:43.370I said the less cool enemies and just

00:03:45.260overall the game isn't overly involved

00:03:47.840or challenging you know parts feel kind

00:03:50.449of craptastic to be honest it's not the

00:03:52.879greatest-looking thing and frankly you

00:03:55.040can understand where some of the

00:03:56.510negative reviews are coming from it's

00:03:58.729not like the best shooter by any means

00:04:00.560you know it certainly ain't Game of the

00:04:02.419Year material but not every game has to

00:04:04.879be I think it has some stuff that might

00:04:07.099make up for it you know it's rough but

00:04:09.680there's some tense moments there's a lot

00:04:11.599of dialogue and choices to chew through

00:04:13.549there's a trade and crafting system and

00:04:15.949a skill tree that are traditional but

00:04:18.049satisfying and honestly it's just a

00:04:20.539straightforward old-school single-player

00:04:22.520adventure game no [ __ ] and a

00:04:24.440straight-up terminate

00:04:25.490story sometimes you just want a regular

00:04:27.500old video sometimes if you're a very

00:04:30.050specific bin you just want a regular old

00:04:32.360confident terminator guns are mostly

00:04:35.090authentic you know the vibe is there the

00:04:37.580terminators themselves are believably

00:04:39.470threatening at least in cutscenes and a

00:04:41.599few good moments at least this story

00:04:43.789like I said is serviceable and probably

00:04:46.639works for terminator fans at least

00:04:48.110somewhat and I think it's just nice to

00:04:49.970have a solid terminator thing after so

00:04:52.400many mediocre games and other stuff I

00:04:55.099think this is where resistance at least

00:04:56.599mostly succeeds and people are starting

00:04:58.699to realize I can nitpick a few dolor

00:05:01.039things but ultimately it's a decent ride

00:05:03.800the most recent movie Terminator dark

00:05:05.960fate was kind of divisive some people

00:05:08.360think it's pretty great

00:05:09.020and some people think it's very bad I've

00:05:11.479also met a lot of people like me who

00:05:12.830thought it was you know just some really

00:05:14.630good fun action but I just didn't really

00:05:16.490like what it did with the lore here in

00:05:18.380Terminator resistance we get some of

00:05:20.150that old lore some of that war with the

00:05:22.009machine stuff we want wherever you fall

00:05:24.020with resistance you do really get the

00:05:25.580old-school Terminator stuff I didn't

00:05:27.500even hate Terminator Salvation as much

00:05:29.360as everyone else but it just didn't

00:05:31.159quite give you the future vibe you

00:05:32.840expected from seeing those like jump

00:05:34.580forward scenes and Terminator 1 & 2

00:05:36.380Terminator Salvation still just felt

00:05:38.120kind of different from that resistance

00:05:40.039doesn't resistance feels ripped out of

00:05:42.289those scenes from Terminator 1 & 2 I

00:05:44.389just think it's fairly decent terminator

00:05:46.340fanservice more than anything else we

00:05:48.289got right now and that's why some people

00:05:50.330think it's underrated

00:05:51.469so that's Terminator resistance like

00:05:53.210what do you think have you played it

00:05:54.560have you thought about it have you

00:05:55.729watched it on Twitch anything what do

00:05:57.620you think

00:05:58.190are you a die-hard hardcore terminator

00:05:59.810fan what do you think about this there's

00:06:01.460definitely things you can nitpick but

00:06:02.719did you have a nice time with it there's

00:06:04.370a lot of stuff we can talk about with

00:06:05.630Terminator resistance so let us know

00:06:07.069down in the comments we'd love to hear

00:06:08.659from you guys and if you enjoyed this

00:06:10.159video maybe put the game on your radar

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