Considering the Terminator movies are about time-traveling killer robots and a scrappy human Resistance battling against a rogue AI in a nuclear post-apocalypse, you'd think making a great Terminator video game would be a slam dunk.

It's about as video-gamey a premise as you could ask for, and yet most of the cybernetic organism's gaming exploits have been disgraceful. Fortunately, not all of them are a disaster, and to prove it, we've put together a list of five Terminator games that are actually good.

Maybe it shouldn't be a huge surprise that most Terminator games suck, given that — if we're honest — most of the Terminator movies suck these days too. But plenty of movie franchises have nose-dived into mediocrity while still kicking out great games. If Star Wars can give us The Rise of

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