Despite its length, it has a memorable campaign with rich and detailed environments. Vanguard, with a 6-hour campaign, was met with disastrous reception due to the new cast of characters. It was considered a bust in many aspects, leading to new release models to avoid making the same mistakes.

It's very scary, but not that graphic; occasionally a character will get shot or harmed by another, but most of the violence in The Terror comes from nature: dying from a great fall, for example, or being frozen alive.