Terminator

Few franchises front-load their greatness as steeply as the Terminator. James Cameron's The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) are near-perfect machines, a lean slasher in sci-fi clothing and a blockbuster that still sets the bar for action filmmaking. Everything after wrestles with their shadow.

This collection tracks that long argument across media. The films keep relitigating fate and the timeline (Rise of the Machines, Salvation, Genisys, Dark Fate), while Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008) and the anime Terminator Zero (2024) prove the material breathes better with television's room to think. The games swing from the oddball RoboCop Versus the Terminator to Resistance, which finally lets you play the future war the movies only flashed. The throughline is simple: humans and machines locked in a loop neither can quite break.

The Terminator franchise spans 2 series, 4 games, 6 films in the CrossBinge catalog.