The video game version of
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
is a lot like the movie. It's high
on action but low on story and
overall presentation. The control
system with the switch between
vehicle and robot is frustrating
because you have to hold down a
button and HAVE to accelerate while
you're in vehicle mode. Overall this
can be a fun game but it's also more
than frustrating at times and is
filled with bugs and stop points
that will cause you to restart a
level or the game. This game CAN be
fun. Especially on the multi-player
level, but it struggles with the
single-player mode on a number of
levels.
With presentation, there are no
cut-scenes, there are no movies,
there are blue-display screens with
briefings and sometimes talking
characters in the storyline. That's
it. That's all the presentation that
the game gives you. There's nothing
that remotely gets the gamer wrapped
up in the storyline.
As for the actual gameplay, not only
is repetitive, it's severely glitchy.
Within ten minutes of playing the
first level I had to restart the
level because when my character was
launched in the air, he just stayed
there and never came down. The game
was still running and I was told to
attack the Decepticons but I was
just stuck mid-air, forced to pause
and restart the level. This is the
most severe case I had but there are
other odds-and-ends bugs that occur
through the game.
As for the control system, you
switch between vehicle mode and
robot mode with your right trigger
button, the only catch is you hold
down the right trigger button to be
your vehicle. Basically this means
that you can't not move in vehicle
mode- you always have to be moving.
Add that to when in robot mode you
fire with while holding down the
left trigger and pressing the right
trigger, you've got a lot of
terrible gameplay qualities.
The first Transformers game had it's
problems too, but the control system
was better, there was a
story-telling aspect to it, and it
was a fun game. This game is not
game. The first is definitely
superior to the second with
Transformers games, kind of like the
movies.
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