A large, gridded map is provided in the box, and mimicked without numbers or street names by pressing Alt-M. Pressing P will open a phone book which lists nearby stores and their map coordinates. The finding of weapons and equipment is easy enough, as you are provided detailed maps both in-game and out. It is then a race between the two of you to load up on weapons, defeat the other, and find Sarah Connor as the Terminator, or defend her as Reece. Your adversary has spawned somewhere else under the same conditions. A potentially amusing search for clothing is omitted, but otherwise, you have no items and no weapons. When you start as either character, you will appear randomly somewhere in the gameworld. It's certainly ambitious, and the sandbox city generally (though not always technically) works as described. Innocent bystanders mill about around you, stores open and close, residential areas transition into high rises, and there's even LA landmarks like Griffith Park and Dodger Stadium. It's quite an accomplishment for 1991, and for a game written entirely in assembly language. You choose to play as either Reece or the Terminator, and battle it out in a digital rendition of nearly 60 square miles(!!) of central Los Angeles. It takes the fundamental match-up from the film - Michael Biehn's hardened, but human, Reece against Schwarzenegger's unstoppable Terminator, and throws the two of you into a non-linear world with Sarah Connor hanging in the balance. The Terminator is indeed an interesting 'sandbox' title. You may have also heard of this credited as an early Grand Theft Auto. In this case, you might have already heard of Bethesda's original version of The Terminator as a unique, groundbreaking, free-roaming title. There's something else I enjoy equally, and that is providing comprehensive reviews for games that do not appear to have any available online. And I'm well aware that the site is not called Just Terminator Games. C'mon, who doesn't love a jerky Arnold puppet head? I would probably have reviewed every single Terminator-based game by now, if I didn't believe that I should space them out for those who don't quite think the film is the bees' knees. Not only is it '80s low-budget cinema at its best, but it somehow manages to involve a lot of deep sci-fi elements grounded in semi-reality, while also being super-cool.

I'm actually watching it as I type this review.

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