
Three game modes are featured: the online multiplayer Team Deathmatch mode the objective-based Mission mode, in which players hold or overrun an area and Termination, which is a single-player mode played against bots as the player tries to capture an enemy base. The player chooses which team to join, and each character is labeled with their team affiliation to inform other players. The game takes place during a post-apocalyptic war between Skynet's Terminator machines and the Tech-Com human team.


Terminator 3: War of the Machines is a first-person shooter game with a focus on online multiplayer. Critics also viewed the game as a poor imitation of Battlefield 1942. The game was negatively received, particularly for its character animations and artificial intelligence. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future when human and machine forces are battling for the world, and the player chooses which side to join. It was developed by Hungarian developer Clever's Games and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows. Terminator 3: War of the Machines is a 2003 first-person shooter video game based on the film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
