Hasta La Vista, Board Gamers... Judgment Day Gets a Kickstarter Preview

Cation Arts are moving closer to launching their officially licensed Terminator 2: The Board Game, with a Kickstarter preview page now live and propsective backers able to sign up for notifications when the camp[aign launches.

Developed in partnership with STUDIOCANAL, the game is based on James Cameron’s 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day and is a 1-3 player cooperative stragegy game where you are all playing against the T-1000 Terminator, or a 1-4 player 1-vs-many mode where one player takes control of the T-1000.

In the main cooperative mode players take control of Sarah Connor, John Connor, and the T-800, comleting objectives across three chapters inspired by locations and events from the film while being relentlessly pursued by the T-1000.

Whilst the liquid-metal T-1000 Terinator is usually controlled by the game itself, in the four player version of the game one of the players takes command of the T-1000 and hunts down the other players.

The game includes a Noise system, with various actions from the players creating varying levels of noise. Noise is the mechanism that the T-1000 uses to track, learn, and adapt from the heroes behaviour. As the players complete objectives, and make other breakthroughs, the T-1000 becomes more dangerous and receives various upgrades.

The heroes are not helpless though. They have a shared progression grid and the team makes collective decisions about acquiring gear, allies, dice upgrades, and charater specific abilities.

There are also multiple ways for the players to prevent Judgment Day, with three Final Missions allowing the players to destroy Skynet, hack Skynet, or expose Cyberdyne’s plans to the public.

The publisher behind the game, Cation Arts, are based in Abu-Dhabi and have a good track record with their previous crowdfunding campaigns, including the range of All Time Wresting titles.

You can follow developments for Terminator 2: The Board Game by signing up to their Kickstarter page now.