PS3 Review – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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For the most part, you will just be hacking and slashing your way through endless repetitive enemies. This brings me to the next issue; you will fight the same tiresome enemies over and over again. You will have an occasional boss fight with a more well known Autobot or Decepticon, but unfortunately these are just as tiresome and boring as the rest of the fights.
The overall goal for each mission is to get as much Energon as possible in the shortest amount of time. Energon is mostly gained from defeating enemies, but there are also a fair share of side goals that will give some extra. The time it takes to clear a stage will ultimately grant you a medal (bronze, silver, gold or platinum). Each medal will give you a certain amount of campaign points, ranging from one to five. These campaign points will be used to unlock new missions. But so long as you maintain a silver ranking, you’ll have no problem racking up the points you need.
The online mode is the one redeeming factor of this game. There are five different game modes: Death-match, Team Death-match, Battle for the Shards (Capture the Flag), One Shall Stand, and Control Points. One Shall Stand requires the player to protect the leader and kill the opposing team’s leader. Control Points is just a variation of zones. Overall, the online aspects are quite fun and having to fight actual people makes the experience much more enjoyable. But there is a significant drawback that should have raised a red flag for the development team. Whoever plays as one of the flying transformers, such as Starscream, has a huge advantage over other players during Deathmatch.
The visuals are a low-end mixed bag. Though the characters looks pretty similar to their movie counterparts, the graphical quality is decent at best. The characters look good, but the environments are barren and plain looking. The sound for the game is also less than pleasing. All of the Transformers, as well as a few humans, are voiced by the original actors. The issue with the sound is that it’s just so repetitive. Also, when you’re playing the Autobot’s campaign, no matter which character you choose you will always be referred to as ‘the Autobot’. It just feels like they dropped the ball there.
Overall, this game just reinforces the community’s viewpoint that movie-based tie-ins are disappointing and a waste of money. There’s not much of a story, despite the fact that there’s two and a half hours worth of storyline in the movie to use, and what is there isn’t well written. And on top of that, there’s repetitive missions, sub-par graphics, and bad audio work. It’s just too redundant to be enjoyable, and even the multiplayer has a huge flaw that should have been rectified. Even die hard Transformer fans won’t find many redeeming qualities in this game, which makes it a rental at best.
PlayStation LifeStyle’s Final Score
Controls can be frustrating, especially when driving. Multiplayer is pretty fun, but has a significant flaw since characters with flight abilities have a big advantage. |
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9 Responses to “PS3 Review – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
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July 16th, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Transforming just seems stupid. The best part of Transformers, and they make it the most frustrating part in the game.
July 16th, 2009 at 10:45 AM
haha hadn’t seen the 2/5 lemon background. Did we really expect this game to be much better?
07/16/2009 at 10:54 AM
Yeah, I thought the lemons were hilarious!
July 16th, 2009 at 11:02 AM
the transforming was too slow and rigid for me. Compared to past transformers game where switching between vehicle and robot was fluid.
The online had potential to be a blast but ended up being terrible
July 16th, 2009 at 11:44 AM
how do these major control flaws get by the testers/developers?
millions of dollars on the line, and they have boneheads working for them.
fail
July 16th, 2009 at 11:54 AM
i never understood why they follow a movie game and than gimp the story telling. It shouldn’t matter if they mimic the entire movie..(its a movie game). . You always end up with a broken story because there trying to hide parts of the movie. environments are always bland, muddy or dark with little color.
Dan Massi says: The best part of Transformers, and they make it the most frustrating part in the game.
lol. thats exactly what i was thinking..
and the lemon pic is hilarious..has there ever been a game rated a 1/5?
07/16/2009 at 4:48 PM
No we’ve never given a 1/5 and even though this game was bad a game would have to be completley broken and unplayable to get a 1. This one was at least playable
July 16th, 2009 at 12:38 PM
@shadowjin:
No, there hasn’t been a 1/5 rated game here. I bet the background will be a steaming pile of dog crap. =)
July 16th, 2009 at 1:46 PM
lol even the movie sucked
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 PM
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