The Terminator: Rampage is a first-person shooter video game released for personal computers with the operating system DOS by Bethesda Softworks in 1993. It is the third game based on the Terminator film series that was made by Bethesda, following The Terminator and The Terminator 2029.
The Terminator: Rampage is played as a first‑person shooter in which the player moves through the Cyberdyne building’s 32 floors, navigating its interior spaces while engaging Skynet‑controlled robots and cyborgs.
The player starts the game armed with a Beretta 9mm, but can also acquire an Uzi 9mm, AK-47, SPAS-12 shotgun, HK-95 minicannon (similar to a M134 Minigun) and an M-30 grenade launcher.
The player progresses by exploring each level, locating and collecting the scattered components of the V‑TEC PPC weapon, and using conventional firearms and other available tools to fight enemies encountered throughout the facility. The structure of play centers on advancing through floors, defeating hostile units, and assembling the necessary equipment to complete the game’s objective.
Skynet has sent a computer core containing its core programming back to 1984, shortly before its ultimate defeat at the hands of John Connor's human resistance in 2024. The computer core (known as the Meta-Node) arrives at Cyberdyne Systems' headquarters at the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, and proceeds to take over the building and begin manufacturing an army of Terminators. A lone commando is sent into the past by John Connor, arriving there in 1988. His mission is to destroy the Skynet computer core and eliminate the threat of Skynet once and for all. To do so, players must explore the 32 floors of the Cyberdyne building, fighting off various Skynet robots and cyborgs while assembling the pieces of a prototype plasma weapon called the V-TEC PPC (Phased Plasma Cannon), the only means of destroying the Meta-Node.
The Terminator: Rampage is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
How to play on Windows
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