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found the game's recreation of the city to be "pretty faithful". However, they were critical of the complex controls and wrote, "Even with the joystick, game movement takes more than 50 keystroke combinations. Just starting the manual transmission vehicles and getting them on the road requires at
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to National Blvd (vertically). A game map is included in the box for reference. Though the buildings and their placement within the world is generic, and highways/overpasses have been removed, the streets and their layout are largely accurate. The game also includes some landmarks, such as
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wrote that the game did an "excellent" job of capturing the original film's "spirit." He also wrote that the film had always seemed like "perfect material" on which to base a computer game, and that, "One can only wonder why designers waited so long to produce a game based on
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offered praise for the game and the ability to play as either Reese or the Terminator. However, they noted initial difficulty in figuring out the gameplay due to an unclear instruction manual, and also wrote that the 3D effects occasionally go "completely haywire".
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The game takes place within a huge (roughly 10 Γ— 6 miles or 16 Γ— 10 kilometres) 3-D rendered area of central Los Angeles. The game area runs roughly from Beverly Drive to Central Ave (lengthwise), and from
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Danish software house cum hardware manufacturer Robtek acquired the licence to interpret Terminator and Terminator II over a year ago, but sadly went into receivership before anything saw the light of day.
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This game was written in 100% assembly and takes up more than 35,000 lines. The game contains approximately 20,000 3D objects. It was developed using
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with all debugging being done remotely. It was created on a variety of 286 and 386 computers. All graphics were created on IBMs and Amigas using
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The game was released in July 1991, coinciding with the theatrical release of the film
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Borovskis, Thomas (January 1992). "Review: Terminator".
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Rand, Paul; Boone, Tim (December 1991). "Terminator".
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Developer(s)
Bethesda Softworks
Publisher(s)
Director(s)
Julian Le Fay
Producer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
Terminator
Platform(s)
DOS
1991
Genre(s)
Action-adventure
Single-player
action-adventure game
Bethesda Softworks
DOS
film of the same name
Terminator film series

Kyle Reese
Sarah Connor
Terminator
Mulholland Drive
Dodger Stadium
Griffith Park

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