Terminator: Salvation is an easy gamerscore boost for your achievement fun and it is not that bad either.
Publisher: Equity Games Production
Developer: GRIN
Platform: Xbox 360
Rated: Teen
Released: May 19, 2009
Visuals:
The visuals for Terminator: Salvation are dated and are not all that pretty to look and they are not that bad either they are just a bit dated and the frame rate with the visuals seem to flow just smooth enough and with my experience with this game it only froze about one time and even in parts of the game where the game get's a little hectic and the frame rate didn't stutter one bit and there were some part where it was a bit of an issue, but in most cases in this game the flow was pretty smooth. So the character models in this game were 50/50 like the character model's in the gameplay are not the greatest and what I mean by that is that the character models in the gameplay looked a little stiff at time's but the character models in the cut scene's were pretty impressive and so were the cut scenes in general. So the detail to the environment of a post-apocalypse Los Angeles, California were pretty good to look at in the gameplay portion of this game and even in the cut scenes look pretty good and decent to look at but till in general still not the greatest visuals, but the detail to all the Terminator machines are not that great to look at but they are not that bad either and in fact they to are just decent to look at . So in short for the visuals for this game they are just simply a bit dated and they are also pretty decent to look at as well and their are a lot of other games out their that are not as great to look at and this game visuals are a bit better to look at then most.
Audio:
The audio for Terminator: Salvation is pretty good wit ha pretty good sound track, a not to shabby voice cast that is not headlined with by Christian Bale and the sound effects for the weapons are not that bad to hear as well. So the the sound track for this game is pretty good to listen to while playing this game in some of the intense moments that this game had and the sound track for this game is just pretty good and is jut as it is from the movie franchise it self. The sound effects for all the weapons, Terminator's and even the vehicles that are in the game and for all the weapons that are in this game kind of have a sound that is pretty good but not that good and lets just say the sound of the weapons in this game are just decent enough to be good and the sounds of the Terminator machine's sound not bad but they not great either and when they are walking and trying to gun you down it has a pretty good bass like sound that is pretty cool and when you kill a Terminator and the sound of the explosion when on of these machines die are kind of lame sounding. So now the voice over work in this game is pretty great and that it might be the only thing that is really great in this game and even the game does not have the voice of Christian Bale doing John Conner but the voice of him in this game is pretty good and for other voice talent in this game you will hear Common's voice in the and he is not bad for voice over work well he should because he make's is living being in a studio so it is no wonder he was great in doing the voice work of his character from the movie and you have other voice talent the game and they are all pretty good. So in short for the audio for this game is pretty good and if it really was not for this game having great voice over work for it's audio is what really save it for this game on the audio portion of the game and really make the audio for this just a bit better than decent and made it just plain good.
Gameplay:
Now for the gameplay for Terminator: Salvation and the single-player campaign that takes you through the moments between the moments after the movie Terminator 3 and will lead you up to Terminator: Salvation and get to see how some of the character's play a role in the Terminator: Salvation movie and so the single player will clock you about 6 or 8 hours on the hardest difficulty and this game will net you and easy gamerscore boost if you are interested and is quite easy and the only real issue that is with the game is that the controls are pretty clunky when trying to aiming and move your sight around to take down some of the flying Terminator's or even some of the slower moving ones as well and that is one and the only issue that this game has and that it is the clunky controls and that it being short as well. So you do play through this as John Conner and go through the game on a search and rescue mission and try to take down a major area of what Skynet as control of. This game also as a local and on-line Co-op and if you fell like putting a friend through playing this game be my guess because the friendly A.I for this game is alright but it's no A.I. from the Halo series, the first Crysis or even the Gears series but it's decent. So in short for the gameplay for this game is that it is just plain good enough to get the easy 1000 out of 1000 gamerscore.
Overall:
The overall point for Terminator: Salvation is that it is quite easy enough to play through on the hardest difficulty and is quite the pick up for about $19.99 or less new and is about $14.99 or less and even for what ever way you buy this game new or used it is a pretty decent game to have to boost your gamerscore a bit and so this game is worth the price tag the game is at now and so I could recommend this game for a weekend rental or even to own.
5.5 out of 10