The story of the game falls in line with the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day : to save the leader of the Human Resistance, John Connor , and his mother Sarah from the T-1000 , an advanced prototype Terminator bent on killing them both.
The player takes the role of a T-800 Terminator cyborg, already captured and reprogrammed by the human resistance, and fights alongside them against Skynet in the year 2029.