New Terminator survival game announced, a series first

Publisher Nacon and its Milan-based development studio are making a new Terminator video game — the sci-fi franchise’s first open-world survival game, the publisher says. A teaser video was released by Nacon Studio Milan on Thursday. It shows a T800 Terminator model endoskeleton hunting for prey.

The untitled Terminator game will be set after the events of Judgment Day, the nuclear holocaust instigated by Skynet that destroys much of humanity, and before the creation of John Connor’s Resistance against the machines. It will also be played before the events in 2019’s first-person shooter, another Nacon-published title. Terminator: Resistance, where players battle Skynet’s mechanized forces in the War Against the Machines.

Nacon is withholding further details, other than to confirm that its new game is coming to PC and unspecified consoles “in the distant future.” But a survival-style game set in the post-Judgment Day setting of the Terminator franchise certainly has promise, given how scrappy the Resistance was portrayed in various Terminator movies, comics, and video games, not to mention how threatening Terminators are.

The developer Terminator: ResistanceTeyon is currently developing a first-person shooter game that uses RoboCop. RoboCop: Rogue City.