This game attempts to follow the plot of the movie with the same name, in which you are the robot Terminator reprogrammed to go back into the past and protect mankind's future savior, John Connor from the deadly and more advanced SkyNet assassin, the T-X. The game developers were able to actually get Arnold Schwarzenegger himself to provide voice overs for his character. This is all well and good but we see that this is where most of their budget was spent because the rest of the game is filled with bugs and other problems. For example, the graphics are blocky and very basic looking, and really do not use the full capacity of the X box. Also the AI is not too smart at times, which can lead to some pretty frustrating situations. An example of this is in the cemetery level where you have to disable the police and SWAT teams without killing them and at the same time, protect John Connor. The computer controls John's movements, but not very well because it likes to send him running right in front of your guns as you shooting your enemies. This ends up in him getting killed and you having to start the level over again. It is problems like this that make me say, get this game only if you are a big Terminator fan or if you must collect every shooter for the X box. If not, skip of this game and get something else, because there are much more better shooters out there for the system.
This game could have been good if they made the camera actually work. I've never seen a game where the camera turned and made you walk at an angle sideways. It's AWFUL. You can barely play the game, I don't see how they could have playtested this and said, "Ok, let's release it."
Weakness: Graphics compareable to a PS1 game, bland gameplay
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a good example of a movie licensed game slapped together just to make some money without putting the effort into making the game enjoyable. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a third-person shooter which is imbalanced & never really seems to take off. When you start the game some of the missions will take you about 20-30 minutes roughly to play though but later in the game you will play though levels that only take afew minutes & are easier. I would suggest staying away from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines & watching the movies instead as Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the polar opposite of what movies licensed games have been to gamings as say GoldenEye 007 on the N64.
Strengths: Uses Arnold's voice and likeness as the Terminator, expands on the T3 film story, includes T3: Redemption demo
Weakness: Lousy graphics, animation and collision detection, adds little to Terminator mythology, just another licensed game
Atari made a big deal of licensing Arnold Schwartzenegger's likeness for this game (in addition to the obvious film rights), and one would hope that Arnold's voice acting and involvement might help to better this game's overall quality. The film has been called a last minute cash-in by Arnold on the popular series, and this does nothing to redeem his legacy.
It appears that all of this was just for show as the T3: Rise of the Machines game became just another licensed title that fails to deliver any of the promised action, excitement or fun that fans had expected. Diehard Terminator fans may be able to stomach this excuse for a game, but everyone else should avoid it like the plague.
Strengths: Uses Arnolds actual voice. Lots of great extra DVD features. Terminator T800 looks accurate.
Weakness: Boring levels, with not much going on. Bad graphics with blurry textures. Really bad animation.
This game is a complete waste of time. The simple story does not make it any more interesting playing in the boring, and linear levels. The AI for everything is poor, half the time the enemies does not respond. The controls are easy to use, but the character animations is so bad I did not want to use them. This game is only for the hard core Terminator fan.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines receives an overall TopTenREVIEWS rating of 1.66 out of 4.00. It is ranked the #10,543 game of all time, #162 game of 2003 for the Xbox and #828 Xbox game of all time. The rating and ranking is based on an average of 48 critic scores, awards and other criteria. To see a breakdown of the game ranking, read individual critic reviews, or see how other games ranked,...
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Strengths: none
Weakness: many, especially weak graphics
This game attempts to follow the plot of the movie with the same name, in which you are the robot Terminator reprogrammed to go back into the past and protect mankind's future savior, John Connor from the deadly and more advanced SkyNet assassin, the T-X. The game developers were able to actually get Arnold Schwarzenegger himself to provide voice overs for his character. This is all well and good but we see that this is where most of their budget was spent because the rest of the game is filled with bugs and other problems. For example, the graphics are blocky and very basic looking, and really do not use the full capacity of the X box. Also the AI is not too smart at times, which can lead to some pretty frustrating situations. An example of this is in the cemetery level where you have to disable the police and SWAT teams without killing them and at the same time, protect John Connor. The computer controls John's movements, but not very well because it likes to send him running right in front of your guns as you shooting your enemies. This ends up in him getting killed and you having to start the level over again. It is problems like this that make me say, get this game only if you are a big Terminator fan or if you must collect every shooter for the X box. If not, skip of this game and get something else, because there are much more better shooters out there for the system.
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