
The Terminator: Future Shock is a first-person shooter computer game developed and published by Bethesda Softworks in 1995. The game portrays Judgment Day as occurring in 1995, then shifts the timeline to Los Angeles in the year 2015. Players take on the role of a human trying to escape capture by Terminators. After surviving the initial mission through enemy-infested zones, the player is introduced to John Connor, the Resistance leader. From that point forward, the player assumes the identity of a Resistance soldier. Skynet's rebellion in 1990 has decimated most of the human population, leaving the world under the control of the artificial intelligence. The environment is one of ruin and desolation, with the remains of a civilization long destroyed. In Future Shock, the game is played entirely from a first-person viewpoint. Each level presents the player with a series of objectives that must be completed before advancing to the next stage, all while battling enemy robots using a wide array of weapons and explosives. Another challenge in each level is the dangerous environment, as many areas are contaminated with high levels of radiation that threaten the player's survival. The terrain can be traversed in three different ways: on foot, in a jeep equipped with a mounted cannon, or in an Aerial Hunter-Killer.
| DOS | December 1, 1995 |
