While look promising from the trailer, Terminator: Salvation have it own shares of minor flaws.
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First, gameplay. Rather than GoW/R6 Vegas, the game uses a cover mechanics kinda similar to the one in GTA4 or the more recent Wanted. Even the character animation of switching covers looks strikingly similar to the one in Wanted...
It works most of the time, but on some occasion when the cover is too large, it blocks your fire. Especially when you're kneeling behind both ends of a wrecked car, or shooting from high grounds.
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The story is sort of a prequel to the movie, revolves around an rescue mission after a failed attack on skynet.
It's canonical, but it's also feels a bit flat, and more important, it's too short. It took around 5 to 6 hours to beat it on normal, and then nothing else except a co-op mode...
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The graphics and sounds are all right, what you'd expect for a current-gen game are all here. Nothing more, nothing less, so I'm skipping this part.
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There's some minor stuffs I don't like about the game.
First thing is the control. Can't jump, huh? fine. But how come I can't crouch? It's kinda ridiculous since most of the covers are around waist high where the character have to kneel behind.
Also when you're in a cover, you can't pickup/swap weapons on the ground.
Imagine you're in the cover with an RPG and an empty shotgun , you don't want to waste RPG rounds on some flying wasp machine. Then you notice a rifle lying on the ground next to you.
But no, you can't just pick it up behind the cover, you have to leave the cover, wait for the "swap weapon" text show up, swap it, THEN get back to the cover and shoot.
It's not annoying, but sure is inconvenient.
Then it's the loading time. In most game you load a bit longer at the beginning of the level, then when you die and continue it loads faster, right? But not in T:S, the T600 skull loading screen is a bit fun to tinkle with, but not after a few more continues...
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To sum it up, Terminator Salvation is a mediocre game.
If you're huge fan of the franchise, or just happens to have a few extra bucks in your pocket, trying this game won't hurt much.
But if you're not, head to the cinema instead, you didn't miss anything.
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*update* I don't know why, I just went through the game again. And notice another weird bug: when you switch to the RPG, in the middle of that grabbing animation, you can still shoot. And the rocket fly where your RPG's pointing at...WTF!
So I'm changing my mind, whatever it is, RENT IT FIRST.