The Boosted edition does not add anything that the DOS version did not have, apart from widescreen support and greater draw distance, and even manages to take away or break some features. Mouse support is worse than in the original DOS version by far. Even at settings 1 for both X and Y axis the mouse feels way to fast and has too much dead zone. No manual saving system - DOS version has 8 slots to save the game at you leisure (except tunnels). Boosted version has only a single autosave slot. So no multiple save to go back to your favorite moments from the game. Apart from that is the thing with the resolution - I expected modern in game res but the game is stuck in 640x480, just stretched to widescreen. Compared to other modernized version of game I played in recent years, this is a serious downer.
Being a fan of the whole setting (regardless which direction it went movie wise, watched them all and each has its moments) I was very fond of the two FPS released by Bethesda Softworks, namely Future Shock (1995) and Skynet (1996). I played both of those games multiple times, both back in the day and quite recently and always wished for a modern game in the future war setting. I got my wish. Resistance is set in the world taken straight from the Future War of 2029, showed briefly in two scenes in The Terminator and in the opening of Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Every detail seen in those two scenes has been recreated in the game with great attention to detail. From Resistance soldiers' clothing, gear and weapons, to some of the locations to the sounds and SFX of weapons and machines. Its a treat. Still the developers managed to put in some of their own ideas into the game in the guise of new robots to kill. The atmosphere of the game of the game is also very good. As a human you have always be in the lookout for machines patrolling the area a until half of half of the game you are not even able to make a dent is some of Skynet's troops. This makes some of the missions are really tense, like the one where you go into a hospital crawling with T-800s which you just have to sneak around or you are dead. Add to that some of the original are slightly edited track from the movies and this makes for a very solid Future War experience. The story is nothing original but its not bland either and it has all the typical movie tropes in it. It nice that you have the chance to talk to quite a lot of characters and get to know their stories which gives us some more details on how it was like to live in this world since Judgement Day. All in all its a very good game and its a must buy for every Terminator fan, especially of the first two movies.
