Despite swinging into retail stores amidst a flurry of hype, nostalgia, and relatively kind reviews, Capcom’s Bionic Commando failed to capture big numbers at retail, pushing only 27,000 units in its opening month.
Fewer machines are better poised to enslave humanity than the ubiquitous iPhone. That doesn’t make Apple’s gadget the ideal device for a Terminator game, though it does suggest a good platform for crude movie tie-ins.
Set in 2016 in a decimated Los Angles, Terminator Salvation the video game is meant to connect the leap between Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation the movie.
Sweden-based game developer GRIN is said to be the latest game studio hit by cutbacks, as multiple sources have told Kotaku that the Bionic Commando and Terminator: Salvation has laid off more than 100 staffers.
In trying to describe how much they disliked the new Terminator movie, many movie reviewers decided that comparing it to video games would do the trick.
Terminator Salvation: The Machinima series uses footage from Terminator Salvation the video game to tell the story of pilot Blair Williams and how she joined the resistance years before the events of the movie.
Christian Bale is best known for going bananas at some cinematographer. He’s also an actor! And like millions and millions of people on Earth today, he loves video games.
If you own the PS3 or 360 versions of Terminator Salvation, you’re fine. If you own the PC version, however… well, you probably already know the thing doesn’t work.
The only thing worse than unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity’s extinction? Flying unstoppable mechanical creatures hell-bent on humanity’s extinction.
