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Movie tie-ins have a long history of being disappointments. Dating back to E.T. on the Atari (and the supposed landfill full of unpurchased copies of the game), it's become general knowledge that games based on films are usually of extremely poor quality. Even this generation we've had Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Wall-E, all of which were based on good movies, all of which sucked. A few titles have broken that mold, including the recently released X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but the rule generally stands. With the Hollywood release of the most recent Terminator movie, so came the announcement of Terminator Salvation the video game. After GRIN's pseudo-success in making Wanted: Weapons of Fate slightly better than the average movie tie-in, the scene seemed ripe for the company to at least repeat the same with the Terminator franchise, and to prove for the second time this year that movie tie-ins don't need to be failures. Is it worth joining the resistance, or should gamers resist picking it up altogether?

Players assume the role of John Connor, one of the leaders of the resistance, in events that serve as a prequel to the film bearing the same name. Fans of the film will quickly realize that this John Connor isn't actually voiced by Christian Bale, nor does he share any likeness to the character. While Common and Moon Bloodgood both signed on to have their likenesses and voices in the game, Christian Bale declined. As a result, the John Connor in the game looks more like Mass Effect's Commander Shepard than he does Christian Bale. To compensate, GRIN enlisted Rose McGowan to voice a new character, Angie Salter, which seems to be a fair trade-off.