The maker of the New Terminator 2 video game tracked the actor, who played the Future War John Connor in 1991, including his portrait

If you are making a video game for Terminator, ideally you want to be able to incorporate Arnold Schwarzenegger into all his glory. However, this is not always possible. Why? The developers of the upcoming Terminator video game provide explanations.

Terminator 2D: No Destinyto be released in September this year, is a retro game based on the 1991 action masterpiece Terminator 2: Judgment Day. It has iconic characters from the movie, such as John and Sarah Connor, T-1000 and T-800. Check out the gameplay and comments of the developers of Bitmap Bureau in the video below.

But although Terminator 2D: No fate Do With T-1000 and T-800 characters, it does not have the similarity of Arnie. Publisher Reef Entertainment explained why in his speech to IGN and in the process explained how such licenses work in video games.

Reef, under a license for Terminator 2, has the right to use characters from the movies, such as Sarah and John Connor, and, most importantly, has the right to image the studios to certain actors who have these rights to the first two Terminator movies as part of the agreement.

But the right to use the Terminator itself does not include the right to use Arnie similarity. That's why Terminator 2D: No Destiny uses endoskeletons to perform character artworks, not Arnie's similarities.

Apart from that, the Reef has been linked with Michael Edwards, who played John Connor at the iconic opening of Terminator 2 to make a similar deal with video games. Terminator 2D: No Fate includes gameplay, seeing players control the future of war John Connor scatters the short opening scenes of the movie throughout the entire part of the video game in a battle with the machine.

In the movie, you only see Edwards' John Connor for a few seconds, but it's really memorable. His severely scarred face and steely gaze looked at the battlefield, telling us that he had seen and fought all kinds of struggles in humanity for the survival of the machine. So the reef separates the deal with the 80-year-old actor.

(It turns out that in 2021, Edwards Skynet)

In short: There is a difference between signing a Terminator 2 license and using the character agreement compared to the similarities of the actors.

This is not to say that the similarities of using Arnie in video games are impossible. After all, Netherrealm manages it multiple times, most recently Mortal Kombat 1's DLC character Conan the Barbarian. Prior to that, NetherRealm managed to get Arnie to the Terminator T-800 DLC role in Mortal Kombat 11. But there is a gap between the range of games like Terminator 2d: No Fate: No Fate and Warner Bros. Back Backed Mortal Kombat series.

It is worth noting that while Netherrealm's Arnie similarity is in his lines, the voice actor (Chris Cox) is used as his line. It looks like 77-year-old Schwarzenegger is working in the business of video game voice work.

Here is a comment from Reed Entertainment that IGN on how all this work works in full:

Arnold Schwarzenegger is not in the game, it's just the T800. Unfortunately, we don't have his license. But in the rest of the cases, you have to ask each actor to use his portrait separately.

What we have is the right to use characters. So, like Sarah, John, T1000, T800, then some participants will also provide image rights to the studio canal included in the agreement. For example; Linda Hamilton is Sarah Connor, which is why you can see Linda at the beginning of the trailer. Although our right to use the Terminator itself does not include Arnold. When you see the character artwork, you see it like the Terminator itself, not Arnold. Basically, this is the endoskeleton we have the right to use.

Michael Edwards played John's version of the Future War at the opening ceremony of T2. You see him, he lowered his binoculars, he was browsing the battlefield. For people like this, we contact him separately, including his similarities. Compared to the similarity of the actors, there is a clear difference between signing a T2 license and using the character agreement, which is separate.

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