Terminator Genisys continues to live on borrowed-time thanks to the busy devils hands at Skydance Media.
Plarium have had success in the MMO games industry since 2010, they are fully capable of making a strategy game and we feel it is such a shame they will be entering the Terminator franchise with the Terminator Genisys trademark.
Plarium reports:
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL AND SANTA MONICA, CA – June 28, 2016 – Plarium, one of the fastest growing developers of mobile, social and web-based games with over 250 million users, today announced a partnership with Skydance for the rights to develop a Terminator Genisys™ mobile game for iOS and Android. The clan-based massively multiplayer online (MMO) mobile strategy game will pull from the themes, experiences and character likenesses from the latest entry in the Terminator franchise. The free to play game will be available worldwide early in 2017.
“Mobile games have incredible potential to expand the universe of characters and experiences we have created for a movie and provide audiences and fans with a brand new perspective on our content,” said Jesse Sisgold, Chief Operating Officer at Skydance Media. “Plarium has had great success in creating state-of-the-art MMO titles and we look forward to working with them to bring our Terminator franchise to mobile devices in highly engaging new ways.”
Terminator Genisys was the fifth installment of the franchise, presented by Paramount Pictures and Skydance. When John Connor (Jason Clarke), leader of the human resistance, sends Sgt. Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) and safeguard the future, an unexpected turn of events creates a fractured timeline. Now, Sgt. Reese finds himself in a new and unfamiliar version of the past, where he is faced with unlikely allies, including the Guardian (Arnold Schwarzenegger), dangerous new enemies, and an unexpected new mission: to reset the future.
This new game will follow the struggles of The Resistance, whose soldiers are in a state of civil war over the few resources and weapons that remain. Players start the game as the machines begin to wake up … but this time, without central command to dictate their actions. Players will have the option to lead a Resistance Commander or Skynet Command Node as the war between machine and man continues.
“We all grew up on the Terminator franchise as kids, and bringing the essence of Terminator Genisys to a game together with the innovative team at Skydance is a great aspiration we took on”, said Leonard Frankel, Head of Business Development for Plarium. “In this game we will call upon our players to pick sides and make history: help humanity prevail or crush it. This will be Epic!”
This partnership is the first of its kind between Plarium and Skydance Media. Plarium’s previous titles include “Vikings: War of Clans”, “Stormfall: Rise of Balur”, “Total Domination: Reborn”. For more information, please visit: plarium.com.
About Plarium:
Founded in 2009, Plarium Global Ltd. is dedicated to creating the best mobile and social experience for hardcore gamers worldwide. With over 250 million registered users, we’re proud to be consistently ranked among Facebook’s top hardcore game developers. Plarium employs more than 1000 individuals and is headquartered in Israel with eight offices and development studios across Europe and the United States. Our hardcore mobile and social games are available on all major social networks, including Facebook, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki and Mail.ru, as well as web browsers, iOS and Android.
About Skydance Media:
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create elevated, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across platforms, including feature film, television and interactive. Among Skydance Media’s commercially and critically successful feature films are Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Jack Reacher, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, Star Trek Into Darkness and True Grit. Its 2015 feature films, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation and Terminator Genisys, together grossed over $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Skydance’s feature film slate includes Star Trek Beyond on July 22, 2016, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back on October 21, 2016, Geostorm on January 13, 2017 and Life on March 24, 2017. Skydance Media’s rapidly growing and critically acclaimed television division launched in 2013. The Company’s television slate now features a variety of projects across a number of networks, including Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie and Altered Carbon on Netflix, Red Mars on Spike TV, Jack Ryan on Amazon and Condor on DirecTV. In 2016, Skydance acquired leading game developer The Workshop Entertainment and formed Skydance Interactive, a new division that creates and owns original video games and virtual reality experiences.
Skydance is a diversified media company? Okay… more like clickbait franchise cash-in enthusiasts…
An online/device game has already been in development for some time at MOGOL Games based on the war scenario and world of THE TERMINATOR and it is the first MMORTS Terminator game… and this Terminator Genisys game just sounds like it will be very similar to MOGOL’s game (which has been out in Asia for a month) but instead of the original and loved The Terminator cast (Hamilton/Biehn) we will get the unwanted Genisys miscasting thrown back in our faces with the corporate bonus appearance of Pops Schwarzenegger to ensure sales…
Here is an example of a war/strategy game made by Plarium…
Our negativity continues to be fueled by a movie studio which frankly never should have bought the franchise, they want to be the next Marvel but they don’t have the assets or the characters to work with… so they bought rights to a franchise that should be R Rated- to make a PG-13 Superhero Terminator Extended Universe which was never needed or wanted in the first place. How can we respect or participate in something that goes against the integrity of the original vision?
Plarium will engage users and fans of the genre regardless of the Genisys name and could have chances of larger success in the Asian market like China for example.
Skydance should have given Plarium complete creative control over the game and let them imagine their own vision and style for Terminator, after all this genre of game doesn’t depict realistic/graphic violence anyway. Wouldn’t it have been far more interesting to see Plarium’s take on the world of Terminator as opposed to a box office flop that refuses to be laid to rest by its makers?
The only thing we can guarantee is that this game will definitely be better than the movie, but in all honesty the cast of Genisys will probably make us unfortunately pass on this game mere minutes in to play.