Despite a bit of an issue with the camera angles the fun factor on this game can't be terminated! Oh no I didn't!
From the main menu of this game you have 5 options. The first option is "Training". When you choose this option you are taken to a facility that tests you in four different categories of combat. You are tested on your hand to hand combat, your weapons combat (using a couple of different guns), your explosives combat (using canister bombs), and your turret combat (shooting targets using a type of stationary turret that you stumble upon throughout the game). This is not a hard mission but it is very helpful in getting you used to what weapons you have available to you in your arsenal and how best to use them.
The second option is the "Settings" option. Here you can adjust all of the game options, mostly to do with sound, but you can also toggle the vibrate and map features on or off.
The third option is "Extras". Here is where you can view all of the extras you unlock throughout the course of the game. I will say more on how to actually unlock them later, but for now I'll just mention what the unlockables are. The extras include a concept art gallery, a music gallery, a threat data section (listing information on a dozen your main SkyNet enemies during the game), a DVD extras section (where you can view game videos) & a cheats section (where you can toggle on/off certain cheats and character skins).
The fourth option is "Credits". Here you can, you guessed it, see who made this wonderful game for us!
And the last option from the main menu is the "Start" option. This is where you go when you are ready to begin playing the game in earnest. Once you go here you are first able to play the game on 2 of the 3 difficulty levels in the game. These two difficulty levels first available to you are Easy & Medium. The hardest difficulty level, "Terminal", is only available to you after you beat the game on Medium.
Once you select a difficulty level (I suggest beginning on Easy) you start off on the first mission of the game. Overall there are 10 game missions and most of them are very fun and a really good length as well. There is only one mission that is short, mission eight, which is just a boss mission. You must face other bosses throughout the game, but usually they come at the end of a regular mission. Throughout each mission there are certain checkpoints you can reach along the way where if you die you can continue from. This comes in very handy on the later, harder missions.
As for playing the missions themselves, the controls are very good an intuitive. You have two main forms of fighting. You can use hand to hand combat (using your special Terminator destroying baton in conjunction with punches and kicks), or you can use any of a bevy of weapons available to you in this game. There are quite a few different guns you can pick up in this game as well as a whole lot of explosive devices including bombs, C4, and various types of rocket/grenade launchers. Another thing that helps you destroy your enemies is your adrenaline meter. Your adrenaline meter fills as you destroy enemies. When you turn it on and then attack your enemies your physical blows or weapons attacks become so much more potent and helps you destroy them faster. Two other keys in successfully completing the game are picking up medi-paks and SkyNet tech throughout the missions. You use medi-paks to heal and SkyNet tech can be found scattered around most levels, usually in spots where you can't see it at first, so look hard. The more SkyNet tech you find the more upgrades you will be able to get.
After each mission you will be given a comprehensive breakdown of how well you did. Depending on how well you performed you will be awarded up to a maximum of six "medals". The medals are: Ground Pounder (awarded to you if you destroy a large number, if not all enemies in a mission); Martial Arts Master (awarded to you if you destroy a large number of enemies using hand to hand combat instead of weapons); Raging Valor (awarded to you if you use your adrenaline function often); Sharp Shooter (awarded to you if are fairly accurate with your weapons fire); Speed Demon (awarded to you if you complete a mission fairly quickly); and Untouchable (awarded to you if you finish a mission taking a fairly low amount of damage). So, if you finish a mission and are awarded any 4 of the medals, you unlock the extra associated with said mission. On most missions this is fairly simple, but the eighth mission (the boss mission) this can be fairly hard to attain, I only managed it on Easy difficulty. If you want to unlock all the extras in the game you must complete the game on all three difficulty levels as each mission on every difficulty has one associated extra to unlock. Also after each mission is where you purchase your upgrade based on how much SkyNet tech you managed to collect. There are four different upgrade categories (and various levels of upgrades within each category), as follows: "Medi-Pak Healing" (increases the amount of medi-paks you can carry as well as their potency); "Armour" (increases the amount of armour you can wear as well as it's effectiveness); "Ammo" (increases the overall amount of ammunition you can carry); and "Adrenaline" (increases the amount of adrenaline you can store at any given time as well as it's effectiveness). I recommend focusing on defensive upgrades first!
And that's about it! Everything about this game is almost perfect, except for that glitch I mentioned at the start. And it's a fairly big one too. The camera function in this game takes some getting used to. Instead of panning around your character as he/she moves throughout a mission it just instantly reverses it's angle when your character reaches a certain point, which automatically makes you try and reverse the way you are controlling your character. But you don't need to do this, the controls switch over along with the camera, if you get my meaning, so you just have to keep on keeping on. Once you get used to it the glitch becomes manageable, but during the boss fight on mission eight it can really mess you up as you are fighting a big fight in pretty tight quarters. Other than that one camera glitch though the gameplay is really good, the graphics are above average, the game is a good length, there is lots of unlockable content, and the most important thing is that the fun factor on this game is very high. If you like shoot 'em up action games this is definitely worth a look. I gave this game an 8.5, but if there wasn't a camera issue I would have easily given it a 9 or a 9.5.