Terminator 2: Judgment Day

No amount of fancy presentation can hide a game so lacking in inspiration and good game design. Utterly overblown tripe.

The difficulty level is high. It's important to get through each level as well as possible because in the next level you continue with the same energies as where you left off in the previous level. In level 8 you need both Sarah and Arnold in good shape. The bonus levels were the best part of the game, also you can get some energy back depending on how well you perform.

Intro is classy and presentation in general is well done, with still sequences in between stages and a plot closely following the movie, similarly to what Ocean did with Darkman. Graphics are also cool, with big and well-animated sprites, albeit quite blocky. Difficulty is unbalanced though, with the motorcycle and swat van stages being too hard, especially with only one life. Tried it with a trainer and the other stages are quite playable. A quite nice tie-in that could have been better.

Gameplay Video Link:
youtube.com/watch?v=oDjyfCwbvVs

And for the Last parts:
youtube.com/watch?v=7UNrSBif4ws

Mediocre game, with short and simplistic sections. To compensate, the difficulty is set quite high. Worst of all has to be the unpredictable controls in the fighting bits. You just can't be sure whether the same move is gonna have the same effect. At least the presentation is good, with well-drawn graphics and in-between level piccies that follow the plot of the film closely. One for hardcore T2 fans only.

Nice GFX and sound but shame about the game, to hard with only one life, they were hoping it would sale cos of the tie in with the movie. Your best bet is to get a crack version with a trainer so you can't be killed.

I got to level 2 and got killed straight away.. Dam game.

Well defined GFX and suitable sound across various styles of levels. It's not great but fun for a short while, Nice intro and outro though!

Good graphics, excellent title screen, not bad rendition of the movies theme tune. Far too difficult to be fun though.

I have never liked this game! I was completely devistated when I loaded it! One of the worst ever games ive played!
zzap gave this 89%??? What the hell???

Great game. Thank god I had the cartridge version tho!! I also have the tape and it takes forever to load each level

The game is fun, tho obviously too hard with only 1 life. I love how it follows the plot of the movie too; makes me want to watch it!!

The intro screen with the fading-in music was amazing!!

Bought this in 1990 and regretted it almost immediately. Nice graphics, but the multi-load was murder and the gameplay a bit too tough to encourage perseverence through the loading times.

The multiload was hell. Having to re-load level 1 after dying so soon on level 2 made me wanna scream!

How the f**k are you meant to dodge bullets while driving around an obstacle course?? Ridiculously difficult level.

7/10

Fun little game. Too hard for the Hen tho!

The best thing about Termiantor 2 was it was good to see the artists thinking outside the box. Many C64 games used sprites in the usual limiting way. The characters that appear in Terminator 2 are large and are very well designed. Graphics aside, the game is somewhat average.

People found this game hard because it was so darned unintuitaive. A control system like this in a game nowadays would be play tested out in initial stages. Remember people, a lot of older games were hard because of design fault, not predesigned difficulty levels.

Cartridge version was more fun to play, managed to beat it without cheating and I thought it was good for a film conversion.

Why do so many ppl find this game hard? The bike & swat-car levels are a short area repeating over & over. Make a map of the loony level. Be patient to time your strikes in the loony & swat levels. And use the forward punch on the T1000 like a madman & block when T0800 hesitates, repeat till he's in the lava. Sorted!

I've beaten this game every time I played it once I knew the levels well...

Easy money.

This holds a special place in my heart as it was my first game (i bought the T2 C64 pack). Very difficult indeed and addictive. Graphics were good and the terminator drone in the background kept the movie vibe, kinda! Also loved the graphics and sound apps that came with the cartridge version.

Yeah this was one of the hardest games I played made me the gamer I am today after finnishing it once you learn the tricks and the routes. At the time my school freinds had it also and I was the first to finnish it and they wouldn't believe me I showed em. How did I beat the last boss. Simple I kept using the big kick to know him to the lava well at the bottom and held the fire button and tapped left repeatdly and punshed him to death.

Yep, probably the most owned game on the C64, since at one stage ever purchase of C64 meant being given this game as well.

First level there was a move which got yu 1000 points, just block and then do this special move and you ended with maximum points.

level 2 was the motorbike, I played it so much I knew teh course of by heart.

Level 4 in the ayslum has hard, simply as it was more about luck than skill, but every time I got past this level I completed it..

the problem was you could spend 1 hour playing the game only to die and have to start all over a again which is why many people never completed it. , .

I did on about 10 occasions.

If anyone ever struggled to complete this game by saving state using an emulator the game will be a breeze.

Also some revenge on the game for robbing you of a glorious childhood moment ...

completing the game, oh well better late than never

This was the first game I owned for the C64 and it was great! It took me months just to get past the motorbike stage. I never ever completed the last level but my mate did once. A true classic.

Not many games in the C64 age were loyal to it's movie, but this was. The last level was very frustrating, but I beat it! However, it was too hard for most. A classic game.

Splendid example of a great license game. The original movie was good, and this game either ain't just any king of rip-off. The intro and intermission demos are cool, and the game is throughout well done. I definetely recommend.

I got to the last level in the steel mill, but never completed it. The second level, on the motorbike took me ages to do. The best level was re-arranging his cyborg face - awesome graphics.

I get stuck on Level 4, it's to big and Sarah's attack range is tiny. Very hard. If only there were cheats, oh well.

Yeah great intro! Here's how to get past the first level: The best move is the headbutt (up + fire) do this over and over and T2'll walk straight into it!! Get him over to the left corner of the screen and you'll be able to head-butt him to death quite easily!! Get ready to ride your bike!

Geeez... I never made the first level... Too hard for me. But I loved the short intro!