Skynet (video game)

Skynet
European cover art
Developer(s)Bethesda Softworks
MediaTech West
Publisher(s)Bethesda Softworks
Designer(s)Todd Howard
Morten Mørup
John Pearson
Composer(s)Andy Warr
EngineXnGine
Platform(s)MS-DOS
ReleaseNovember 16, 1996[1][2][3]
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Skynet (known in Europe as The Terminator: Skynet − stylized as SkyNET) is a 1996 first-person shooter video game developed by Bethesda Softworks based on the Terminator franchise. It was intended as an expansion pack for the predecessor The Terminator: Future Shock, but was adapted into a standalone product.

It received mostly positive reviews, praising its advanced high-resolution graphics for the time, as well as the fact that Bethesda included a multiplayer mode in contrast of its predecessor.

  1. ^ "Online Gaming Review". 1997-02-27. Archived from the original on 1997-02-27. Retrieved 2023-04-16.
  2. ^ "First true 3-D computer game environment in two new products". Standard-Speaker. November 22, 1996. p. 101. Archived from the original on December 28, 2021. Retrieved December 28, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference November was invoked but never defined (see the help page).