• Publisher: Atari
  • Release Date: Dec 2, 2003
Metascore
25 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 6 Critics

Critic 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. 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.
  3. Oh yeah, Terminator 3: War of the Machines also has vehicles! Too bad they suck. [Apr 2004, p.84]
  4. Playing alone with bots is unbearable - the AI players run into walls and can't aim for squat. [Apr 2004, p.74]
  5. As a team-based shooter with vehicles, the game strives to recapture the magic of "Battlefield 1942" in a sci-fi setting but fails miserably.
  6. If just one copy of Terminator 3 gets bought anywhere in the world, then I have failed as both a game reviewer and a member of the human race...Hollow lifeless dreck.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 3 out of 13
  1. Could have been worse, The gameplay was suppose to be great if only the enemy A.I. (Skynet) was sm art and ain't dumb. Another reason why the gameplay is mediocre is that the multiplayer is well: TERMINATED. You can't access it cause of the lousy CD-Key they gave you. So you can only play singleplayer. It's not a bad game, but not a great one either, for me it's just another time-killing game. If you have nothing to do or waiting for someone or waiting for a movie then play it. But I warn you if you buy the game Skynet wins. Full Review »
  2. 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. Full Review »
  3. 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. Full Review »