The gameplay is not different to the previous Lego games. As usual, the player (or players, if playing co-op mode) must play the story mode in order to unlock the free game mode in which he can play every kind of character. In every level there's a total of ten collectibles, the Terminator's microchips and a red brick, which unlocks an extra to help the gamers. In addition, collecting a certain amount of Lego studs, the player gets the status of True Human. In the game there are also 100 Gold bricks. There is one Gold brick per level, plus you get one by completing story mode, one after getting the True Human status and one if you get all of the microchips. You get a gold brick per film getting all the microchips.