Alongside professional players, A first-person action game, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines will--for the first time on next-generation console systems--allow players to become Arnold Schwarzenegger as the original Terminator. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines will feature exclusive film footage created specifically for the release of the video game and not available in the motion picture.

The Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines video game storyline will weave in and out of the movie script as players face enemies from the present in which the War of the Machines looms on the horizon, to the apocalyptic future where the War itself is waged on all fronts. While following the feature film's plot closely, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines will go one step further by providing fans of the Terminator series with a deeper look into the movie's universe and the role of the Terminator, a futuristic fighting machine reprogrammed to save humanity from the SkyNet holocaust.