• Publisher: Atari
  • Release Date: Dec 2, 2003
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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 6 Critics What's this?

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Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

  • Summary: Humanity sits on the brink of extinction. The inevitable battle between man and machine has begun. War ravages the land as hardened Tech-Com fighters defend John Connor and others against the mechanized onslaught of the CRS force. This epic cinematic conflict, recreated from the phenomenal Terminator films, places first-person shooter fans at the very center of the uprising. Throughout high-powered multiplayer and single-player missions, combatants fight in apocalyptic landscapes - a decimated downtown Los Angeles, a battered ocean harbor, devastated highways - struggling for survival. Only the strongest will avert catastrophe and save human existence. [Atari] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 6 out of 6
  1. A sim of Arnie’s election campaign would be more entertaining.
  2. Oh yeah, Terminator 3: War of the Machines also has vehicles! Too bad they suck. [Apr 2004, p.84]
  3. 30
    With an inaccessible multiplayer and a deeply flawed single-player game, there's just not much to like in Terminator 3: War of the Machines. It's a game that feels incomplete and practically abandoned by its publisher.
  4. Playing alone with bots is unbearable - the AI players run into walls and can't aim for squat. [Apr 2004, p.74]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 3 out of 13
  1. AllanH.
    10
    Loved the terminators there vission wasnt to bad loved the guns its like its realy happening its my favorite game ever i realy liked the canyon i always went as skynet in the canyon then went to the mountains,hided then fired. Expand
  2. CoreyC.
    10
    I think its pretty good and cool under ground tunnels and hk airstrikes and getting into tricky places r pretty good.
  3. TheMan
    6
    This game is suprisingly stable. Gets boring pretty fast, doesn't look very nice, but it's flaws are more conceptual than proceedural. The server browser isn't work jack, but BF2's isn't either. Expand
  4. Cytoxin
    3
    What a disappointment. This could of been something great, instead you get 10 so-so maps, crappy AI, bots that can't use vehicles for more than 10 feet, skynet vehicles that never get used by bots, an ugly red lens for skynet that is useless. After 2 hours of play, you've pretty much are done with single play. Single play is completely pointless. Expand

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