I was just commenting on another thread about difficulty in games, and I said that I loved going through games as an indestructable killing machine, as it was more fun that the cover based shooters we have now, so then it struck me that the Terminator frachise would make an awesome video game, I checked and the only recent Terminator game of note was a crappy movie tie-in with a 4 hour campaign and nothing else to it.
So why do we not have a proper AAA Terminator game, it lends itself so easily to the video game style, and it's an already established franchise, so it would be easy to get funding.
I don't know how the campaign would go, (the current video game loosely followed Term. Salvation, but it was apparently crap) Maybe you could play online with a group of friends, and have to make your way through a city crawling with terminators, like left for dead, but I had loads of ideas for the multiplayer.
You could have large teams of humans verses a small group, or single terminator, the less terminators, the more powerful they are, and the soldiers can disorientate the terminator with small arms fire, (for the player playing a terminator when they are hit the screen goes static and their accuracy falls greatly) but small arms cant destroy it and the humans have to hit it with something harder to destroy it. There would be a limited amount of heavy weapons, maybe one rocket launcher, with two or three rockets, or a few explosive charges, that can be thrown a short range, hidden and detonated remotely, or blown up suicidally in close combat. The terrain would be completely destructable, so if all else fails you could try and shoot a building down onto a terminator. (it would take several explosions to kill one) The terminator would have a limited time to kill everyone, so the trick would be to lure him into traps and blow him up there.
There would be several game modes, a deathmatch with a large team playing as humans, and a small team of terminators. You could have a Firefight type game where your team of humans have better weapons, a respawning ammo cache, and have to defend a small area from ever stronger terminators, which could be controlled by other players, that keep coming until you are all killed.
What do you think? and other ideas can you come up with for it?
So why do we not have a proper AAA Terminator game, it lends itself so easily to the video game style, and it's an already established franchise, so it would be easy to get funding.
I don't know how the campaign would go, (the current video game loosely followed Term. Salvation, but it was apparently crap) Maybe you could play online with a group of friends, and have to make your way through a city crawling with terminators, like left for dead, but I had loads of ideas for the multiplayer.
You could have large teams of humans verses a small group, or single terminator, the less terminators, the more powerful they are, and the soldiers can disorientate the terminator with small arms fire, (for the player playing a terminator when they are hit the screen goes static and their accuracy falls greatly) but small arms cant destroy it and the humans have to hit it with something harder to destroy it. There would be a limited amount of heavy weapons, maybe one rocket launcher, with two or three rockets, or a few explosive charges, that can be thrown a short range, hidden and detonated remotely, or blown up suicidally in close combat. The terrain would be completely destructable, so if all else fails you could try and shoot a building down onto a terminator. (it would take several explosions to kill one) The terminator would have a limited time to kill everyone, so the trick would be to lure him into traps and blow him up there.
There would be several game modes, a deathmatch with a large team playing as humans, and a small team of terminators. You could have a Firefight type game where your team of humans have better weapons, a respawning ammo cache, and have to defend a small area from ever stronger terminators, which could be controlled by other players, that keep coming until you are all killed.
What do you think? and other ideas can you come up with for it?
