Summary
In today’s gaming world, survival games are a dime a dozen, with numerous games available on multiple platforms for players to experience an engaging, creative, and potentially stressful survival scenario. Despite the presence of these already popular survival games, many game studios are still trying to make their mark in the survival game genre, including Nacon Studio Milan’s upcomingTerminator: Survivors. WhatTerminator: Survivorshas to stand out among the survival crowd is its worldwide film brand appeal and a more science fiction focus on the survival genre.
Terminator: Survivors Explained
Primarily based on James Cameron’s 1984The Terminatorand 1991Terminator 2: Judgment Dayfilms,Survivorsis set four years after Judgment Day, the event where the artificial intelligence Skynet became self-aware and nuked the world. Here, players will embody one of the few human survivors struggling to survive in the post-apocalyptic, machine-controlled United States. Players won’t have to struggle alone like 2019’sTerminator: Resistance, however, asSurvivorscan be played in co-op with up to three friends to make the robotic apocalypse a bit more comfortable. Together or solo,Survivors’ objective is to gather resources and establish a base of operations to help rescue other fledgling humans.
Threats against this new settlement will remain persistent as players scavenge the nuclear wasteland. Similar to theFalloutseries, certain areas ofTerminator: Survivorswill be highly radioactive and can potentially harm players if they venture too close or consume radiative food and water. Beyond the environment, players may encounter other hostile groups of survivors and scavengers who have their own unique views onSkynet and the origins of the apocalypse. Finally, players will have to remain on alert for the titular, skeleton-like terminator machines as they constantly roam the landscape searching for human survivors to terminate.
Terminator: Survivorsis the fourth game Nacon Studio Milan has developed, with previous titles being 2018’sAnother Sight, 2021’sRiMS Racing, and 2023’sTT Isle Of Man: Ride on the Edge 3.
Terminator: Survivors’ Technological Advantages
For mostsurvival games such asMinecraftandThe Forest, players are usually dropped in a wilderness with only their wits and crafting knowledge available to help them survive. Even after living in these barren landscapes for a while and building their own bases, most of these games will still keep players relatively machine-free save for railroads and a few firearms. While players may encounter some hidden, complex facilities, oftentimes they’re unable to bring any of that complex technology back with them to improve their base. This is usually intended to keep players on their toes or force them to come up with strategies to upgrade their residence and defend themselves.
WithTerminator: Survivorshaving near-invulnerable machines as their primary enemy, players may already have access to more complex technology than they normally would in other survival games. Based onthe future scenes depicted inTerminator 1and2, survivors will most likely be able to craft and utilize large explosives, laser-based firearms, rocket launchers, scanners, flashlights, and radios.Terminator: Survivors’ Aftermath trailer has already depicted a pair of survivors driving a car and using a machine gun and shotgun while scavenging for fuel. Presumably, players would be able to take down terminators and use their parts to craft new technology or upgrade existing contraptions such as traps and life-improving appliances.
Potential Hostile Machines in Terminator: Survivors
SinceTerminator: Survivorsis based primarily onTerminator 1and2, the kinds of machines players can encounter in the game may be limited compared to other machines seen inTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines,Terminator Salvation, and so on. Presumably, players could encounter the flying and tank-like Hunter-Killer machines as both appear in the first two films.Trailers forSurvivorshave already shown the classic T-800in action, but a piece of concept art from Nacon depicted a group of survivors being attacked by a swarm of small, spider-like robots. It’s currently unknown what these machines are called exactly inTerminator: Survivors, but they may be variants of the spider mine machines seen in the 2010Terminator Salvationarcade game.
