I just got this game last week. Being a 22 years old game, it was really finicky to install. However, this has to be the most atmospheric FPS game I've ever played. Desolate post nuclear holocaust landscape, gritty killing machines, 90's electronic music, it nailed the Terminator atmosphere perfectly. Not mentioning the full 3D graphics before Quake, almost open world sized levels, open ended mission structure, and excellent mouse controls. Forget STALKER, this is the shit.
Any good obscure AAA game you found recently?
Ethan Martinez
Wow user, how new are you? Did you just think you could come on this board, the bastion of good taste, and shill your shitty Bethesda games here? WTF, man. Bethesda games are not allowed here, back to cuckchan with you!
I watched some gameplay, and it doesn't seem to do anything spectacular that I haven't seen in other games since, or even around the time. Apart from being 3D/free-look, is there anything truly amazing I should play it for that can't be found elsewhere?
Logan Cooper
Wouldn't say it was colossaly atmospheric, but for the first FPS that exclusively used textured polygons instead of simple bitmaps for NPCs it was breddy gud. Also usable vehicles, but those controlled like shit compared to the FPS parts. Wish I had the SVGA version, only have the original release in vintage 320x240.
Christian Reed
Mostly the pseudo survival aspect. Every building can be entered and there's a dungeon crawling feel to it. There's no inventory system, but hunting for ammunition and healing items is still really immersive. The terminators can take a lot of damage while you die really quickly, makes you feel vulnerable like the movie does. The sound effect of the terminator's hydraulic joints when they seek for you is quite creepy. It's not a classic FPS, it's a very slow paced survival shooter, something that was new and unique back in 95.
Come on, probably the only person left in the world who remembers this game is todd himself.
If you're a fan of the resistance battle scene in Terminator 1, you'd find this to be the most accurate representation of it. Not even T2 and Salvation captured it correctly.
Thomas White
Just a prank trying to fish for (you)s. Tood remembers, for sure. It was his first game.
Grayson Rodriguez
Yeah, Fallout 3 is so much like Future Shock. I bet he still missed it but was forced to make shitty rpg's.
Grayson Myers
It's also the first FPS with proper mouse aim, i believe.
Jackson Rivera
Chronicles of Riddick
Christopher Cook
I think I played it before seeing any of the movies, so there just wasn't that connection to a known universe. In retrospect, yeah, it kinda nailed the mood, but that wasn't a factor back then for me. It was just an impressive techdemo that stopped being fun too early. Imagine if the fucking VTOL sequence in Crysis came at the one or two hour mark. That's my experience with Future Shock. Good enough to remember it somewhat fondly, bad enough to remember what was wrong.
Evan Garcia
is there any chance that Todd will take a day off from his hard working creating the best games ever to return to his roots and Make Terminator Great Again
