Nameless Transformers from the other side will get in between you and whatever objective you have, and you can take them out with one of two weapons. Gameplay is mostly taken up by third person shooting. This seems like an interesting system at first that will force people to do some non-necessary missions, but unfortunately it is easy to get more than enough campaign points by just doing the story missions so it doesn’t work out that way.Įach side has four transformers to choose from, but most times you are only allowed to choose a predetermined one on your first play through. Each medal has a value of campaign points - accumulate enough points and you access more missions. Primary objectives are always timed, and you get a certain medal based on how quickly you complete the mission.
Secondary objectives are usually destroying a certain number of enemies with a specific attack and have almost nothing to do with the primary objective, but they reward you for completion. Unfortunately, these missions can still play out similarly when the Decepticons are tasked with taking some engineers hostage and the Autobots are tasked with saving them. The primary objective usually involves protecting something if you are the Autobots or destroying something if you are the Decepticons. The missions will plop you into a city area where you are given a primary objective and two secondary objectives.
Once you have chosen a side, you are taken to a command center that acts as your main menu, from which you choose what mission you want to go on.
Perhaps it is mandated by the publishers that you don’t expose too much of the movie’s story in the game, but this leaves the game with a skeleton story that is not worth telling. You are told what is happening through a voice over, but there is no exposition in the story and it seems to be missing some chunks. Unfortunately, this is a movie-based game, so the story is pretty bare. There are separate campaigns for the Autobots and Decepticons and the stories are interwoven nicely, unlike some games playable from multiple perspectives. Transfomers: Revenge of the Fallen has you playing through the latest movie. This may not be quite the definitive Transformers game that I hope for one day, but it was a decent enough attempt. So when a chance comes around to play a game starring my favorite robots, I can’t pass it up. While living overseas, I would watch recorded episodes of the old series, and I have seen the animated movie upwards of 30 or 40 times. Nothing is more connected to my childhood than Transformers. By Karl Koebke, posted on 10 July 2009 / 5,246 Views
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