As Promised, The Terminator Really Is Back

has been revealed during the February 29, 2024, Nacon Connect conference. The game had previously been announced by Nacon back in 2022 with a brief, menacing cinematic trailer of a Terminator looking for someone in an abandoned building, but it was simply called "" and not a lot of information was provided.

Alongside revealing the game's title, Nacon's new trailer and "" feature revealed that is a first-person survival shooter game with solo and co-op multiplayer modes as players face both human and mechanical threats across the open world map. The trailer didn't feature any gameplay footage but showed two survivors scouring a remote location for resources before being spotted by a T-800, while the "" clip shows further concept art of various gunfights across the post-apocalyptic world, and the survivors' base.

' storyline expands on the original story with a completely original storyline that includes both famous characters, and new ones, set in an unexplored era of lore. Nacon's game is set in 2009, a few years after Judgment Day and before John Connor founded the Resistance. In fact, the game's protagonists are unaware of the existence of the Terminators at first and only learn through teaming up with other survivors on their journey.

is based on the first two movies in the saga, potentially retconning the later, less well-received entries much like Teyon's 2019 game, did.

There have been a variety of different kinds of games spanning different genres over the years, such as action side-scrollers, MMOs, and real-time strategy titles. The majority of games, however, have been in the first-person shooter genre.

Atari's 2003 title tie-in, and Bethesda's 1993 and 1995 games, and ​​​​​​, were all fairly linear, as was the norm for first-person shooters of their time. While the aforementioned did offer more exploration across larger areas and the ability to take different approaches to situations with some RPG elements, it was still primarily level-based, moving