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The game stars Michael Biehn from Aliens and The Terminator growling his way through a hyperbolic script and blowing cyborgs to pieces. The video below – from our friends at PlayStation Access – is a painstaking trawl through the whole game (including plenty of spoilers) pointing out a whole ton of references and easter eggs to macho sci-fi apocalypses and, uh, Pixar’s Up.

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