Terminator: Dawn of Fate is a 2002 video game made for Playstation 2 and XBox. It shows the events in the future leading up to The Terminator.
Characters
| Resistance / Tech-Com | Skynet |
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Machines
- Auto Palette
- HK-Aerial
- HK-Centurion
- HK-Flying Mini Hunter
- HK-Spider
- HK-Tank
- T-400
- T-500
- T-600
- T-800
- Skynet Initiate
- Skynet Loader
Plot
John Connor is making one of the last offenses against Skynet. Skynet plans to send a T-800 back through time to kill Sarah Connor. Tech-Com is trying to prevent this, but if Skynet succeeds in time travel, Kyle Reese, a Tech-Com soldier will be sent back through time to protect Sarah Connor.
- Grave Introduction
- Following a Skynet invasion of their base led by a T-800, Kyle Reese must escort John Connor to safety.
- Final Delivery
- While trying to escape the base, Kyle Reese and John Connor are separated. While Connor continues to the exit, Reese tries to rescue trapped soldiers from Skynet.
- Mass Destruction
- After Connor escapes to safety, Justin Perry and a Tech-Com demolitions specialist go back into the base to destroy it before Skynet can learn of the Resistance's plans to attack Cheyenne Mountain.
- Enemy Withdrawal
- Kyle Reese is assigned to investigate the Skynet presence in the ruins of the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles.
- Loading Zone
- While following a group of Auto Palettes to their source, Kyle pursues Alexander Stone through the sewers.
- Cybernetic Surprise
- While en route back to his base, Kyle Reese is attacked by a new line of Skynet assault forces: the Skynet Initiate and captured.
- Asylum Assault
- After Kyle Reese is captured by Skynet, Catherine Luna is dispatched to rescue him from a Skynet Work Camp in the ruins of Los Angeles.
- Infiltration
- After finding Kyle Reese in the Skynet run asylum, Catherine Luna is attacked by a Series 800 infiltrator.
- Storming NORAD
- The Resistance invades Skynet Central at NORAD.
- Time Displaced
- After a T-800 is sent back through time and his team is disabled, Kyle Reese must battle his way to the Skynet Central Core and destroy it so that he can rescue his friends and travel to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor.
Gameplay
Some interesting things that set this game apart from other Terminator games is that you get to see several never before seen Terminator units. Also, the inclusion of melee combat changes the ways you can exterminate the Terminators. The camera angles used in this game proves to be unique but feel poorly implemented. The camera feels like its never looking the right way, and also is very "sticky".
Weapons in this game include the basic plasma rifle, SMGs, EMP gun, C4, grenades, grenade launcher, turrent guns, and a few others.
Soundtrack
The majority of the soundtrack was composed by Robert Daspit, with industrial metal band Fear Factory recording three songs, each with their own remixes. These three songs, would be the last songs recorded by the band before their break up the very same month. Of interesting note, the band members of Fear Factory were serious fans of the Terminator franchise.
Track Listing
| Songs by Robert Daspit. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 1. | "The Dawn Of Fate" | 1:23 | |||||||
| 2. | "Urban Ruins Ambient 1" | 3:36 | |||||||
| 3. | "Urban Ruins Action 1" | 2:07 | |||||||
| 4. | "Urban Ruins Ambient 2" | 3:31 | |||||||
| 5. | "Urban Ruins Action 2" | 2:10 | |||||||
| 6. | "Urban Ruins Boss" | 2:59 | |||||||
| 7. | "Hybrid Ambient 1" | 3:21 | |||||||
| 8. | "Hybrid Action 1" | 2:27 | |||||||
| 9. | "Hybrid Ambient 2" | 3:22 | |||||||
| 10. | "Hybrid Action 2" | 2:21 | |||||||
| 11. | "Hybrid Boss" | 2:53 | |||||||
| 12. | "Skynet Ambient 1" | 3:04 | |||||||
| 13. | "Skynet Action 1" | 2:20 | |||||||
| 14. | "Skynet Ambient 2" | 3:32 | |||||||
| 15. | "Skynet Action 2" | 2:23 | |||||||
| 16. | "Skynet Boss" | 2:54 | |||||||
Total length: |
41:43 | ||||||||
| Songs by Fear Factory. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | |||||||
| 17. | "Terminate (Dawn of Fate Edit)" | 2:35 | |||||||
| 18. | "Full Metal Contact (Dawn of Fate Edit)" | 2:16 | |||||||
| 19. | "Hi-Tech Hate (Dawn of Fate Edit)" | 4:10 | |||||||
| 20. | "Terminate (Instrumental)" | 1:11 | |||||||
| 21. | "Full Metal Contact" | 2:28 | |||||||
| 22. | "Hi-Tech Hate" | 4:33 | |||||||
| 23. | "Terminate" | 4:06 | |||||||
Total length: |
20:39 | ||||||||
Continuity notes
- The game takes place in 2027.
- Kyle Reese and the T-800 are sent back in time to 1984. The Terminator establishes that they are sent back in 2029.
- In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Kyle Reese is sent back from 2027.
- The T-800 sent back in time to terminate Sarah Connor does not resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 in the game has black hair and a moustache. This is largely due to the video game publisher Infogrames not having any rights to use Arnold Schwarzenegger face or physical looks.
- The image of Sarah Connor in the photograph looks older then she does in the first movie.
Terminator references
- The battle against the T-800 in "Infiltration" follows the same series of stages as the battle against the T-800 in The Terminator. The T-800 starts off with a standard skin sheath, followed by one where the skin has been ripped from half of its face before an attack where it has been broken in half and can only attack by crawling.
Notes
- Locations