When you say Terminator and retro game, people look at you like you just offered an adult a new computer on floppy disks. But Terminator 2: Cyberdyne Redux from 2021 is a fan project for Mega Drive that isn't afraid to be straightforward — strip shooters and stealth missions without pretenses of being anything more.

It's a mix of action and infiltration with the T-800 Terminator, who must penetrate the Cyberdyne facility and stop the production of new machines. Each level alternates between direct shooting assault and moments when you need to be careful and avoid patrols. The game could be one of those fan projects that makes fun of its own limitations, but here it looks seriously intentioned.

It plays differently — in one level you're dropping into a series of wrenches and robots, in another you're sneaking between lights and cameras. The Mega Drive controls are precise, the shooting feels right in your hand, or rather on your joystick. There's nothing fancy here, it's mainly about surviving and having enough ammo. It's not gripping like a solid arcade, but it's not worth looking at as a development mistake either.

What's interesting is that the project tries to capture the Mega Drive era without sentimentality — it's not nostalgia for nostalgia's sake, but an attempt to dig out of the Eighties console what still physically remains in it. The graphics aren't anything special, the sounds remind you of a time when computers could only growl and rumble. But that's exactly what's interesting about this film project.

Playing it in a browser today means going back to a time when a Terminator game was just a fan's dream. It's not a great game, but it's a game that exists, and that carries weight. For lovers of Mega Drive and the film series, it's an interesting rarity worth a few minutes of tedious shooting.