Terminator on-line game launched

MANILA, Philippines - In anticipation of the worldwide release of Terminator Salvation, Twitter users will have the chance to join the human resistance against the machines in Sony Pictures Releasing International’s first-ever game created for the social networking platform. It was recently announced by Sal Ladestro, EVP for marketing of Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI). Users can follow tweets from the resistance at www.Twitter.com/Resistance2018.

In the Terminator Salvation Twitter game, members of the human resistance communicate with each other through Twitter and turn to the community for help in decoding intercepted Skynet transmissions. Players earn points through timely assistance in decoding these messages and, with these points, rise in rank within the Resistance Army. Players must constantly be on guard against the machines, which periodically and randomly choose a number of players and penalize them a percentage of their points. A companion blog augments the information within Twitter and hosts a leader board for the game.

Sal said, “Twitter users can join John Connor in the war against the machines by following the tweets at Resistance 2018. In the fight against Skynet and the Terminators, mass communication is vital, so it’s no surprise that the resistance would turn to Twitter. We think this is the perfect environment for the Terminator game as it allows users to interact with the movie, their friends and other game players instantaneously.”

A worldwide phenomenon, Twitter’s micro-blogging social networking site has been expanding exponentially across the globe in recent months. Between February 2008 and February 2009, new accounts on Twitter were up 1,841 percent, with an 87 percent increase between January 2009 and February 2009 alone. More than 90 percent of Twitter users choose to make their updates public.

Terminator Salvation is set in post-apocalyptic 2018, where John (Christian Bale) is the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future that John was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. John must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, John and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

Opening May 27 in theaters, Terminator Salvation is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.