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The stores you can patronize are gun shops, pharmacies, sports stores, gun ranges, and banks. It would thus be a good idea to know the keys to control either type. But I suppose that while cops are swarming around you and you're taking bullets, it won't matter all that much.

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These cars will be randomly either manual or automatic transmission, though there is no immediate or apparent benefit to driving a stick. They can also run out of gas, forcing you to buy more at a service station, or simply steal a new vehicle. They have their own damage meters, and will injure you if they are damaged to the point of blowing up, or if you crash. Cars are also appropriately useful for getaways, and other situations where your fast travel ability is negated by nearby foes. Your other method of getting around is to break into a car and drive at much faster speeds than you could manage on foot.

Your opponent is still actively arming himself or searching for you during this time, and your travel can be interrupted by hostile police or opponent intervention. You can also elect to 'fast travel' to any point on the map while the appropriate time is deducted. Once you have a location in mind, you can opt to set a marker on the map screen and be guided to that position by indicators on your HUD. The Terminator has additional access to his current coordinates and heading on his HUD, though these maps will be useful to either character. Pressing just M will display a close-up of that red area, with corresponding grid numbers and nearby stores marked by color-coded dots. The area around you will be marked by a red box. 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.