The Terminator: Future Shock
The Terminator: Future Shock is a first-person shooter computer game released by Bethesda Softworks in 1995. The game depicts Judgment Day as happening in 1995, then the setting jumps forward to Los Angeles in…
The Terminator: Future Shock is a shooter developed by Bethesda Softworks, released 1 December 1995 on DOS.
What The Terminator: Future Shock is
The Terminator: Future Shock is a shooter game developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1995. It is available on DOS only. It runs on XnGine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Terminator: Future Shock is a first-person shooter computer game released by Bethesda Softworks in 1995. The game depicts Judgment Day as happening in 1995, then the setting jumps forward to Los Angeles in the year 2015. The gamer plays a human escaping entrapment by Terminators. After escaping hostile enemy territory in the first mission, the player meets with John Connor, the leader of the Resistance. From that point on, one plays as a Resistance fighter. Skynet's uprising in 1990 has left most of humanity dead, with control in Skynet's hands. All around is death and decay, scattered with remnants of a past society shattered. Future Shock is played in the first person perspective at…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Terminator series
The Terminator: Future Shock is the 25th of 50 entries we hold in the Terminator series. It arrived a year after RoboCop Versus the Terminator. The next entry was The Terminator: SkyNet in 1996. Its critic score of 84 is 21 points above the series average of 63. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
The Terminator: Future Shock holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Terminator: Future Shock launched on 1 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Rayman. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rayman.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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