New Terminator game coming
To coincide with next film.
It's been announced that a videogame tie-in for PC, consoles and mobiles is set to launch alongside the next Terminator film in 2009.
Like the movie it will be titled Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins. The Halcyon Corporation, which owns the rights to the Terminator franchise, is forming a new division to develop the game.
"When you own the intellectual property and have the creative control, you can make sure you're publishing a top-tier videogame that will satisfy the needs of the marketplace," said acting CEO Peter Levin.
Apparently work started on the game several months ago and a member of the development team has been working alongside the production crew in Budapest, where the movie is being shot, since the start.
"We don't want the game to be the stepchild to the film," said Halcyon exec Derek Anderson. "They're of equal importance, and we want both to be of the same quality and be the same compelling experience."
And Terminator isn't the only tie-in they've got planned. Halcyon also has first-look rights to the works of Philip K. Dick, him what did Blade Runner, and plans to release games based on his books, beginning in 2010.
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Worst name ever!
Plus the game is being developed for mobiles? Who cares!!!
I predict this game = shit
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Doubt it, unless Skynet thinks that using killer cyborgs that look like musclebound granddads is a top idea.
And as for either the game or the movie eventually being much cop, excuse me if I don't hold my breath.
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Stop raping stuff!
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Apparently this one is the start of a new trilogy set in the future war against Skynet, so there won't be any time travel shenanigans. At one point Vin Diesel was being hotly tipped to star.
Feel free to make up your own punchline about Vin Diesel being hotly tipped.
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Any movie license games actually any good? Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Terminator 2 the arcade game...that's about it I think...Spider man was ok.
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And some other pap.
teh d00med
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Plus with no Arnie surely the movie is obsolete.
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Shhh...Goldeneye...
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They already tarnished a great movie franchise with the piece of crap T3. A 4th movie will just make all involved look like total jackasses.
"Oh let's just change everything we know about the Terminator canon. None of the fans will notice." Assholes...
You simply can't do a Terminator movie without Jim Cameron. Why McG!?!?! What the fcuk are those hopplehead c0cksuckers thinking about? If you can't get Cameron then at least get someone that actually has a decent resume.
And as for movie tie-in games, these never go well. The production time for a movie is far less then the development time for a good solid game. Movie tie-ins have always and will always be complete dog turds because of this.
Hopefully the Ghostbusters game will not suffer this fate. They've had 18 years to think up a good formula after all...
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Adam_T:milk it milk it milk it milk it milk it.
Me = feeling a bit sick.
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Just call it 'Terminator 4: War of the Machines', or something.
Not expecting much from the game, either. Sadly, this franchise died for me when I saw the awful Terminator 3
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A shame, really, as the franchise "lore" is pretty interesting; where the "hero" of the movie (a trilogy, no doubt), will have to battle the machines endlessly in order to send his best friend back in time to father himself et cetera et cetera... and at the same time almost go mad from all the time-traveling insanity - is he caught in some time-loop; where all the intelligent machines are a direct result of his own tampering with the time-space continuum? Is he mad?
There's room for an interesting character here, someone reared and trained since boyhood to become a warrior who saves mankind, no pressure, and who has ample prrof in his upbringing that this is actually true; the prophecy is not at all a myth. A pipe-bomb messiah building an army to rage against the machines...
Shit, the premise is actually pretty cool. Too bad the movies will suck; the way all these cold-heared hollywood sequel cash-ins invariably suck.
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I saw the pilot a couple of months ago and absolutely loved it.
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The what now?
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The what now?"
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Damn good idea, poorly implemented every single time (after the first 2 films).
If you want a good terminator story, you should hark back to the robocop vs terminator comic.
If I recall correctly.....
Robocop turns out to be the prototype for the Terminators. The humans fighting the terminators come back to kill robocop, the terminators try to save him. Robo realises why the humans are trying to kill him and helps them kill the terminators that are trying to save him from the people he's helping to kill them.
Or something!
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They're not far off, already, really, especially with Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring: The Whatever whatever Whatever(I can't remember the final subtitle they put on the new one, and i don't really care to)
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Still don't know who he is though - Just that he keeps popping up.
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Terminator Salvation is a guaranteed train wreck of a movie.
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PS - I love 80s cheese to shreds!
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2 why another film?
3 why another game?
4 why?
5........why?
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That is all.
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Cash in.
Have you watched the coaster that is the pirate T3 DVD?
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My fav movie series, on one hand, they've done the right thing by starting a new story ark with the future war.
On the other, it doesn't inolve james cameron.
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With a title like that, you just know it's gonna be crap.
WWWWHHHHHHYYYYYYYY???
Why turn my fav sci-fi series into a crappy b-movie? What a friggen injustice.
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Term 1 WAS a crappy b-movie.
But the best crappy b-movie ever made.