Terminator Resistance aka Terminator (2019) — REVIEW
Terminator aka Terminator: Resistance is a 2019 FPS sci-fi open-world game, based alternately on the Terminator films. It is on Xbox 4K aka Xbox Series X, PS5, and Xbox One. As the game’s main player protagonist, Conor of the Human Resistance (against the merciless machines unleashed by the SkyNet computer virus), you have to in his shoes (so to speak) help repel the monstrous machine Marxism, threatening to purge the world of humanity as a whole. The year 2028 and its been over 30 years since Judgment Day when SkyNet has decimated most of the earth via nuclear holocausts upon being brought online foolishly by the human race. The game is distributed by Teyon Ent.
The game consists of intense violence including gore, shootings of machine enemies, blood (some), and physical combat. The gameplay (as a whole), on the other hand, includes story-telling immersive through dialog-based interaction via transcript-based in-gaming decisions. Whatever you decide to do amid this will affect the storyline throughout the game. For example, whenever you are asked to lay a female NPC, you can choose between doing so or keeping out of it. This ties into particularly the gender-based content of the game.
Speaking of, there are some nudity, genderism, and or gender-referencing sequences depending on the gameplay decisions you make. One of the female characters says she has been violated by enemy survivors of the apocalypse resulting from the Marxist rule of the monstrous machines trying to wipe out the rest of mankind. The language used in the game includes the F-bomb and the S-word. There are also some dope, smoking, and booze references (minor), in which case, one of the NPCs smokes a cig.
Overall, Terminator has a separate narrative from the films esp. Terminator Dark Fate, the sequel to Terminator 2 Judgment Day and T3 Rise of the Machines. But it is an exciting open-world game nonetheless. For these reasons, I highly recommend the game to age groups, from late teens to adults, esp. Terminator fanatics themselves.