WHY?
Terminator Salvation is a third person cover shooter based on the movie. It is a complete waste of time a has no business trying to be sold for 60 bucks.
The story of the game takes place a couple of years before the movie, You play as John Connor. The story is way too simple. The entire story is that you disobey orders to go save some fellow soldiers. Well what problems do i have with the story. Well first off Christian Bale is not in the game. Second the climatic moments in the story are a joke. Lastly you dont care about the characters in any way you just want to finish the game to get your 1k achievements.
The graphics in TS are not entirely bad but are bland. At least John has some good animations. But gameplay is what you want to know about. As I said this is a third person cover shooter. The cover system works well but the problem comes with the enemies. There are four enemies in the game and all the firefights are usually with the same two enemies. The enemy AI is good at least for the Spider Droid. The Spider Droid the is too good as you are supposed to flank it while your teammates distract this never happens the Spider always focuses on you and usually the only way to kill it is with grenades or rockets.
My biggest problem with the game is the short length. TS can be beaten in under 5 hours and there is no online support. There is a split screen co op mode though but that makes the game a lot easier. Also you can get all the achievements on your first playthrough if you play on hard.
Overall TS has no business being sold at $60. Though the games has a good cover system and animations there is no Christian Bale, a horrible story, no replay value, and no online. Rent this only if you want some easy achievements or really have to play a Terminator game.
