In the futuristic year of 2015, Los Angeles is fully under Skynet's control. Extermination camps have been set up to wipe humanity off the face of the earth. You must escape one such camp and get in touch with John Connor, Kyle Rees and the rest of the resistance. This is the premise of Terminator: Future Shock, an ambitious first-person shooter from Bethesda SoftWorks, released in 1995. Where most mid-90s shooters were all about arcade action, Bethesda decided to have more of a narrative focus than was common at the time. Not that there's a lack of action though: not only do you get to kill T-800s on foot, you also can do so while driving vehicles and even flying aircrafts. Does all this result in an exciting game? Let's find out!
Hosts Martijn ("Tijn") and Florian ("rnlf") are joined by two DGC veterans for this episode. First of all we have Bjorn ("TigerQuoll") who has been on many an episode before and who, despite being new to the game, managed to play it all the way to the end. Last but not least we're finally joined by Watchful, who has sent us many voice messages over the years, but never joined the podcast in person until now! Not only does he have many fond memories of Future Shock to share with us, but he's also here to announce the launch of our new "sister podcast": Windows Game Club! That's right, it's no joke, you can check it out at windowsgameclub.com.
https://www.dosgameclub.com/podcast/2026/05/ep117.mp3
[ download mp3 ] (102 mins, 116 MB)
Thanks to our producer Pix for helping to make the podcast happen, and thanks to DGC member Console for editing the audio.
Thanks to all who make this show possible, we couldn't do this without you!
RELEVANT LINKS:
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Windows Game Club, our new "sister podcast", hosted by Watchful.
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The Legacy 5 on archive.org, this is the warez disc Tijn had as a kid that gave him his copy of Future Shock. It never worked.
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1996 interview with Future Shock producer Todd Howard on Reddit.
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The Terminator: Future Shock review by Mike Finkelstein on AsteroidG.com.
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YouTube video reviewing all the 1990s Terminator PC games by user GmanLives.