Your main game progress doesn’t copy over for the latter, but thankfully you’re given a surplus of points upfront to give you the running start that’s needed to tackle Resistance’s beefier late-game enemy types from the outset.
Its short run time leaves no room for the light RPG-inspired moral choices from the main game, but its basic item-crafting and skill upgrade system are brought across unchanged.
Thankfully, there's a fan-made patch for the PC that restores the uncensored version.Tagging along with Kyle Reese (sadly not the Michael Biehn version) for a sojourn behind Skynet defenses on a mission to rescue human survivors, Annihilation Line follows the same cadence of the main campaign: hero Jacob Rivers is shuttled from objective-based sandbox mission to linear, action heavy gauntlet run, to dialogue-heavy downtime at the Resistance’s hideout – rinse and repeat. The sex scenes were heavily censored by Sony and Microsoft in order for a release on their consoles, which unfortunately caused the PC version to be censored as well.Also hurting a lot the game's reputation is the fact that it was released 2 weeks after Terminator: Dark Fate, which is a critically successful but commercially unsuccessful entry to the Terminator franchise that the audience criticized for pandering too much to the SJWs.Terrible release date timing: It came out at the same time as Pokémon Sword and Shield and thus was unable to get any attention because most potential players chose to play Pokémon Sword and Shield instead.(Partly justified for Sarah since she died long before the events of the game). Sarah Connor, the Arnold Schwarzenegger model of the T-800, Kyle Reese and the T-1000 did not appear in the game.You can only change the game's FOV manually in its game files, but only on the PC version.The game has a few pacing issues, as it's slow-paced in the first 2 hours before the true action kicks in.It's quite short, being easily completed in 8 hours.The graphics are a bit bland and parts of Los Angeles are so dark that it's hard to see where you're going or where some items are unless you play it on the highest brightness.At higher difficulties, weapons, materials and health kits are too easy to obtain, just like The Culling 2.Some of the voice acting can be bland at times.The game can easily satisfy fans of the Terminator franchise who are unhappy about the sequels released between Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator: Dark Fate, with lots of references to the first 2 movies.Nice soundtrack comprising of music from the movies and original scores.The sound effects are good and sound like most of the weapons from the movies.The enemies look truly terrifying and accurate to their depictions in the movies, notably the T-800s.A wide range of weapons and ammo can be crafted and used for battle.Los Angeles is dark and dreary just like how it was portrayed post-Judgment Day in the movies.Some memorable characters that are crucial to the game's story and in helping you to craft new weapons.The voice acting in the game is decent and passable.The hacking minigames are fun to play and can be easily used to deactivate spotter drones if you're doing a stealth playthrough of the game.The lockpicking minigames are good and easy to master, employing the same system used in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the newer Fallout games.It's fun to explore around the semi-open world to find secrets linking to the franchise's convoluted lore and materials needed to craft weapons and tools.John Connor, the franchise's iconic tritagonist, serves as a very crucial NPC and helps your character, Resistance member-turned-sergeant Jacob Rivers, take down Skynet and destroy its time machine.This shows that Teyon are not only fans of the franchise but also painstakingly did their research when making the game. The game is extremely faithful to the Judgment Day scenarios set by the first 2 movies and has lots of details that are faithfully recreated from them too.