Recoil

In your basic Terminator plotline, the future is ruled by The Network, with humans now obsolete and doomed to enslavement by the robo-computer-type totality. Except, of course, there’s the Alliance of Dissidents, which is humanity’s last hope. The Alliance has reached back in time to you, the player. Help me Obi Wan et al.

You’re “jacked in” as it were to a hacked network tank (as in “battle” not “think” – a distinction that will become a theme in the game). Incredibly arty distorted cutscenes give you the lowdown on each mission, with three actors fighting to get in front of the (fish-eyed, black and white, super camera amid distorted text, lots of 1′s and 0′s, duplicate images, etc.

From there on out, it’s just you against several hundred bad guys per mission. You know, the whole “drive around, get busted up, pick up health bonuses and power-ups” paradigm.