My review of the new Terminator 2D No FATE game based on the classic 1991 movie. This is the 2D retro styled run ‘n’ gun game that Bitmap Bureau wishes would have come out back in the day.
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Terminator 2 has the vibe of a chrome-plated summer thunderstorm that decided to develop a personality. Its appeal begins with the T-800, who evolves from “murderous toaster with legs” to “surly robo-dad trying very hard to understand why humans cry instead of just rebooting.” The movie gives you molten-metal anxiety, Harley-revving bravado, and the warm glow of knowing your savior is a grumpy machine whose negotiation skills rely on sunglasses and a shotgun the size of a rolled-up mattress.
Then there’s the T-1000, a shape-shifting puddle of weaponized mercury who glides around like your reflection decided it was tired of your life choices and took over. Watching this villain chase a teenager through malls, freeways, and steel mills is half action spectacle, half existential question: if liquid metal can run faster than a truck, what chance do your errands have? The whole film becomes a kinetic sermon on destiny, family, and the importance of not inventing killer robots before lunch, wrapped in an action feast that still hums like a neon jukebox on the edge of the apocalypse.