I’m going to assume that 99.9% of us have seen at least The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, if not Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines as well. If you have not, and you’re planning on seeing Terminator Salvation this week, then Geeks of Doom is your place to make sure you at least have some kind of an idea of what the hell is going on.

Keep in mind — I can absolutely promise you that Salvation and any others ever made will not be anywhere near as good as the first two, and I strongly urge you to see them first; but if you just don’t have time and have to get you some Christian Bale action now, hopefully this will help out a little.

Before you continue here, be sure to check out our own BAADASSSSS!’s in-depth and thoughtful retrospect of 1984’s The Terminator — A Look Back At James Cameron’s “˜The Terminator’. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

OK, now that you’ve read up on the first movie, here’s the promised quick recaps of both T2 and T3 so that you can complete the Zelda tri-force and be fully prepared to see Terminator Salvation!

Alright, my peoples. Let us kick off our Week of Geek: Terminator Salvation right.

To coincide with the release of Terminator Salvation this week from Warner Bros. Pictures and Sony Pictures how about Geeks of Doom gives two (2) lucky readers a copy of Terminator Salvation — The Videogame, along with the official strategy guide AND a supremely awesome T-600 bust?!?!

How about that one? How ’bout.

Yep. Geeks of Doom has the Terminator Salvation goods and we’re giving it to ya good. Well, two of you. We’ve got two sweet Terminator Salvation prize packs to bestow upon dos lucky geeks—one for XBox 360 and one for Playstation 3. It looks like the crew at Evolved Games outdid themselves because judging from the video and images below this game looks freakin’ amazing!

We ask that you please specify which gaming platform you’d prefer in the comment section of the entry form below.

What do you have to do to get a chance to win? Glad you asked ’cause it’s really easy. Just make sure you’re a subscriber to our email digest, and then go ahead and fill out the handy dandy form below. Done.

One (1) winner will receive:

• One (1) copy of Terminator Salvation for Xbox 360
• One (1) Terminator Salvation strategy guide
• One (1) T-600 Bust (Damn, I want this!)

One (1) winner will receive:

• One (1) copy of Terminator Salvation for Playstation 3
• One (1) Terminator Salvation strategy guide
• One (1) T-600 Bust (yep… still want this!)

Check out more about Terminator Salvation the videogame below after the jump, including video and a ridiculous amount of sweet game images.

Terminator Salvation the videogame is being release for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC gaming platforms May 19th, 2009 (that’s today, people).

Good luck!TO ENTER: There’s just two simple steps: (1) Make sure you’re subscribed to the Geeks of Doom email digest. If you’re not then click here and sign up. (If you’re already a subscriber, then go right to the next step.) (2) Fill out the entry form here below and submit. (Form is here after the jump.)

From today, May 11, until May 30 the Pizza Hut Terminator Salvation website will have a five-minute video up which is mostly footage mixed with a little behind the scenes action.

The video, which you can watch here below, begins with the footage, which is basically a look at the scene with Marcus (Sam Worthington) and Kyle (Anton Yelchin) at that run down gas station with the massive Harvester. It’s a pretty intense scene, and certainly worth a peek. After the footage, there’s a mini behind the scenes feature which shows you what went into making the actual scene and how much work director McG put into making as much of it real, physical, and non-CGI as he possibly could. That effort to make the movie old-school is one of the high selling-points here, and it’s a good sign for the finished product and for McG’s dedication.

THR has an interesting report regarding Terminator Salvation, director McG, and superstar lead Christian Bale. Apparently, the original script for the fourth film in the franchise was built around the main character of Marcus Wright (now being played by Sam Worthington), with the role of John Connor not being that large. When McG went to meet with Christian Bale, it was in an attempt to get him for that main role of Marcus, not Connor. This is where the project was seemingly grasped by Bale and taken from McG in a sense, as Bale decided that he wanted to play John Connor and add him into the story more.

This news got my brain to turning and wondering, how much has Christian Bale affected Terminator Salvation, whether positively or negatively?

On one hand, there’s the possibility that Bale was the one that recognized flaws in the story and demanded the changes that could make Terminator a critical success as well as the box office blockbuster it’s already destined to become.

Apparently this weekend was the national Directors Confirm/Deny/Elaborate Rumors day.

Two of the more news-worthy bits that had come about recently, involved two of this summer’s big blockbusters. One involved Rob Zombie‘s H2: Halloween 2, in which we were told that Michael Myers would actually be mask-less for the majority of the movie (Read: Wait, What? Michael Myers To Be Without Mask For Most Of ‘H2’?). Then there’s Terminator Salvation, which has had a couple of big stories regarding the movie’s ending — one involved some insanity with John Connor (Christian Bale), the other being when director McG made it very clear that some people would probably hate how the movie ends, hinting at a big cliffhanger.

/Film had the opportunity to have a little chit-chat with Mr. Zombie recently, where he cleared the air on the whole mask-less Myers rumor for everyone who was worried.

This should be a relief to most fans. There was an image that was recently going around in which half of the iconic mask was missing…I wonder if that may have been what was meant of the original statement.

Even better, and much more insane, are the details regarding all of those Terminator Salvation ending rumors. Unfortunately, while the endings in question will not be featured in the final film, there is a chance that they will turn up on the DVD. Because of this, the spoiler warning is officially in effect!

Click over to the other side to see what madness McG had in mind for his ending originally.