While many Terminator Fans may have become resistant to wanting more Terminator movies, the one thing the fanbase have made very clear is that they would welcome more Terminator video games with open arms.
Streets of Rage 4 publisher Dotemu was recently acquired by Focus Home Interactive, and Dotemu CEO Cyrille Imbert spoke to IGN about projects the company would like to work on and it seems Terminator is a potential candidate…
“I think that it would be interesting to explore classic movies like, I don’t know, Indiana Jones, Terminator… the kind of stuff that never really had their very cool retro game back in the days — it was always promotional games and there were usually not that good, and Conan, for example, I love Conan. I’d love to do a Conan game.”
Dotemu CEO Cyrille Imbert told IGN
Seeing as Terminator franchise was at its most successful in the 80’s and 90’s; we think Terminator Fans would dig some retro video games, especially based on the first two James Cameron directed movies.
As Cyrille Imbert stated, the early Terminator games (which accompanied the movies as marketing tie-ins) were mostly considered not very good, difficult and mostly frustrating at times. Though, if you loved Terminator you were willing to make exceptions and forgive bad games in order to visit that world created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.
Upon playing Streets of Rage 4 it was a blast from the past and I was able to relive some good memories with some modern flavor, it was the kind of nostalgia I appreciate; not the fan service kind we see in movie sequels and reboots, but just revisiting something familiar that I used to play as a child that is given an honourable continuation.
I know I would love a retro Terminator game to sink my teeth into, so here’s hoping that Dotemu can secure a license for Terminator. A game that perhaps takes the Sega CD version of The Terminator and ramps the graphics, speed and carnage up. Some optional ultraviolent blood splatter FX wouldn’t go a miss.
So if the Streets of Rage 4 publisher wants to make retro Terminator video game(s) – maybe Dotemu could start by making a The Terminator game where you play as Kyle Reese and then follow it up with a Terminator 2: Judgment Day game where you play as the T-800… ? Or would you prefer to see another future war story ala Terminator: Resistance?
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I’d prefer to see something more along the lines of Terminator: Resistance, which is a great game by the way. Excited to play the DLC for it. I always thought the terminator arcade game was pretty cool, but very unfair.
I wonder how a retro-style game like this would fare. What if you could play as both skynet & the resistance at different times in the game? I’d draw elements from Contra shattered soldier/ Contra Hard Corps, Alien Soldier, Fallout 1 & 2 and Snatcher. I would want to see a good original story and polished game-play mechanics within the world of the first 2 films.
Dotemu did an amazing job with Streets of Rage 4- original & derivative. A dream come true.