The Terminator: Rampage

For other games of a similar name, see The Terminator (video game).

Developer(s)	Bethesda Softworks
Publisher(s)	Bethesda Softworks
Producer(s)	Christopher Weaver
Designer(s)	Vijay Lakshman Craig Walton
Artist(s)	Rick Kauzlarich
Composer(s)	Eric Heberling
Platforms	DOS
Release date(s)	January 1, 1993
Genre(s)	First-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player

The Terminator: Rampage (also known as just Terminator: Rampage) is a first-person shooter video game released for the PC by Bethesda Softworks in 1993. It is the third game based on the Terminator film series that was made by Bethesda, following The Terminator and The Terminator 2029.

Plot

The Skynet has sent a computer core containing its core programming back to 1984, shortly before its ultimate defeat at the hands of John Connor's human resistance in 2024. The computer core (known as the Meta-Node) arrives at Cyberdyne Systems' headquarters at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and proceeds to take over the building and begin manufacturing an army of Terminators. A lone commando is sent into the past by John Connor, arriving there in 1988. His mission is to destroy the Skynet computer core and eliminate the threat of Skynet once and for all. To do so, players must explore the 32 floors of the Cyberdyne building, fighting off various Skynet robots and cyborgs while assembling the pieces of a prototype plasma weapon called the V-TEC PPC (Phased Plasma Cannon), the only means of destroying the Meta-Node.

Gameplay

The game's levels are grid-based 3D mazes, similar in design to Wolfenstein 3D. Players explore each level searching for the stairs lead up to the next level, with the Skynet computer core located at the top of the building. The game contains dungeon crawl elements, as the nature of the game's maze-like levels will sometimes require players to back-track between levels in order to access previously inaccessible areas of a level. Exploration of the game's levels is required to finish the game, as the player must collect and assemble various scattered pieces of a plasma gun, which is the only weapon capable of harming the game's final boss.

Reception

According to Computer Gaming World, the game was "a decent attempt for an immitative product, but you might say that the effort to catch-up and cash-in on id Software's success was doomed from the beginning".

External links

• The Terminator: Rampage at MobyGames