Terminator 3: The Redemption
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Terminator 3: The Redemption is a video game based on the film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. It was released by Atari in 2004 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo Gamecube.
With the commercial failure of the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines video game, Atari was hard-pressed to create another Terminator game based on the third movie. The sub-title Redemption is said to reflect both the "redemption" of the Terminator's mission half-way through the story and also to reflect a redemption for the Terminator franchise.
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Plot
The story starts in the year 2032 with a squad of Tech-Com soldiers storming a Skynet facility just in time to stop a T-X from entering the time displacement equipment. However, they are no match for the T-X's superior capabilities and all are gruesomely killed. She manages to enter the TDE without any fuss.
Meanwhile, Katherine Brewster and the Human Resistance ambush the T-850 that was responsible for the death of John Connor. Rather than destroy the cyborg, Tech-Com's technician Daniel is called in to reprogram the cyborg to be sent back to 2003 to protect Kate and John's earlier selves. Shortly after, Daniel is quickly killed by an aerial H/K attacking the base but the T-850 shoots it down and the T-850 is sent by Kate to fight his way to the time displacement machine.
The T-850, with the assistance of several Tech-com soldiers manages to fight his way to the main gate of the Skynet bunker but is forced to retreat when ambushed by two aerial H/Ks. He blows them both to smithereens but his helicopter is shot down by a T-900 (Skynet's standard ground machine soldier it uses, constructed similar to the T-850). He manages to reach the Skynet bunker again by taking control of a ground H/K but a helicopter gets him inside and he "travels back to 2003 to ensure the survival of John Connor and Katherine Brewster".
The game parallels most of the main events of the third Terminator film (albeit with a few modified scenes to reflect a faster pacing and more serious tone of the game), until reaching a plot twist at the middle. During the T-850's battle with the T-X in the Cyber Research Systems building, instead of losing the fight and being reprogrammed by the T-X, he is thrown into an electro-magnetic accelerator (which is revealed to be a primitive time displacement machine), and is sent back to an alternate 2032 where he discovers that both Kate and John have been terminated and humanity exterminated.
However, not all is lost as the Terminator once again fights his way through Skynet and sends himself back to 2003. He appears just in time to fight off the T-X with John and Kate trying to escape to Crystal Peak. By this time, the T-850 fights with not only the T-X, but other T-800's that were reprogrammed.
In the final moments of the game, the T-850 is shot down by the T-X and his power cells are ruptured, slowing him down. However, he prevents the T-X from reaching John and Kate by blocking her route to them, and eventually catches up to them and places his fuel cell in her mouth, thus leading to the destruction of both Terminators. The cutscene after that parallels the movie ending.
However, John is later revealed to have found the Terminator's (barely functioning) endoskeleton skull and he removes its processing chip, thus deactivating it. The cutscene opens again to another cyborg's point of view and a much older John is seen giving orders to soldiers.
He introduces himself and it is made clear to the player that they are now in the future and the T-850 has been "resurrected" into an extensively modified Hunter-Killer. John orders the Terminator to provide cover fire and it stomps into battle, aiding the Human Resistance once again. The game concludes with the words: "The battle has just begun...".
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Trivia
- According to video clips from IGN, the Heads Up Display for the Terminators in The Sarah Connor Chronicles will be based on the Terminator HUD from this game.
