Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Comments by Dan Whitehead

a self-fulfilling prophecy of functional banality

So a must buy then! :)

I would have been intrigued enough to play this because playing as a fuck-off huge robot should be obvious fun, but that is a pretty poor score, perhaps a rental when there's nothing better out. I'm still playing RF:G and Call of Juarez is out this week too, so I'm in no rush.

I was tempted to wait for it to hit cheapo price before buying it as I quite fancied running around and transforming etc.

But this score has put me well off of it.

Shite film, shite game.

Yet another childhood toy brand ruined! Next coming up: GI Joe!

Not as good as Mechwarrior then ...

Wow, and I'm so surprised this review wasn't up before the game was out.

Just buy Melbourne House's Transformers game on PS2.

Pfff... "shite film"... the film was good entertainment. Lots of CG robots smashing each other up. That's all it was and all it was trying to be. Job done.

I didn't mind the first, but then again it was a tenner and I wasn't expecting much. But that control scheme seems bizarre, that's something I wouldn't have guessed given the controls in the first were functional enough.

Megatrowned

of course it was going to be a movie game cashin. Look at TMNT, pritty ok CGI remake and the game was 'meh' and look at TMNT:Smash Up it's looking damn fun to play, same with Spidey Web of Shadows far better then the movie games...

What Transformers needs to do is find a dev team thats fans of the IP and make a completly new game tats NOT a movie related one, like the ps2 one, there is very rarly a good move based game, the reverse is true as well, you can't cross that divide unless your a diehard fan or the actal orginal creators of somthing

The film was awful, a fantastic example of taking all the bad bits from the first film and making them 'bigger'. Sounds like the game follows suit. Particularly if the controls for transforming are as bad as described.

Bah - Transformers needs another reboot, preferably one that doesn't involve michael bay.

Melbourne House - that takes me back. Would rather play Way of the Exploding Fist for a full year than pay money encouraging this kind of cynical paint by numbers bullshit.

Still a lot better than the first from what ive heard.

Ah man I knew it would be another lame tie in :(

Still I'm gonna rent it as the online does look fun on this one. Besides as Dan put it "you can pretend to be Optimus Prime and shoot your friend who's being Megatron. Yay."

Rented this on friday and even though I enjoyed it alot more than some games recently, it's still very boring after an hour or two.

It's just the same for every mission, which results in a poor game. Shame really, Vigilants 8 was great fun but this misses alot in the variety aspect.

that control system sounds totally bizarre!

I guessed the score before i even read the review, I wonder if Michael Bay will be moaning about the lack of marketing for the game

For once a game that is better than the movie?

Another bad movie licenced game. How surprising.

transformers is the sort of thing i think will be too hard to make into a decent game regardless of film tie the only direction i think they could go is a mech armored core type game .the terminator is a franchise that COULD be a world class game if given to devs enthusiastic about the movies and a big enough budget/timeframe as the recent wolverine game has shown

"Fuck it, i'll say if for all the pseudo intellectuals that lurk behind the internet. It was a fucking giant robot movie. What the fuck were you expecting? Go back to waiting for Driving Miss Daisy 2, and let those of that want 2 hours of mindless action enjoy a film."

You seem to think it's impossible to like mindless action and still think Michael Bay is fucking shite.

GameSpot gave this game 7.5 and IGN gave it 6.0 so they're totally at odds with EG as in it's "above average" rather than "below average". I'm not saying that they're right as such, I haven't yet played the game, but EG rated the surprisingly good IMO X-Men Origins Wolverine 5/10 when it has averaged mid-70s % on GameRankings and Metacritic. I think it deserved 7/10 personally as I loved the game, enough to complete it and play through it again, something of a rarity for me.

I've ordered the game for the PC on that basis as its sub-£25 online price point makes it worth the risk.

And probably also because the action scenes weren't that good, and constantly intercutt with useless footage of the US army. I came for Transformers, not tanks and bombers with people in them.
And it also wasn't just an action movie, it tried adventure, it tried a love story, it tried comedy, some of it worked, most of it didn't. Which made the movie a mess.

Parents trying keep the kiddies quiet over the summer holidays will be buying this one.

How about a King of the Monsters/Rampage semi 2D mashup?

PS2 wins again...

I just don't get it. You have to hold a trigger to make your character change into a car, but then that same trigger makes you accelerate, and you have to hold it to stay as a car? So if you want to be a car you have to be constantly accelerating?

Should be a 2/10 purely for that retarded control scheme.

I thought it was a lot better than the first game.

@brappbrap - To be fair the trigger is analogue so you can press gently to go slow and press all the way to go fast. If you want to stop then you may as well be a Transformer robot rather than a car. I've not tried the game yet but the controls don't sound all that bad to me. OK so they're perhaps not the best control system but it doesn't seem like a game killer to me. We'll see though... tomorrow!

Do a Google-picture search for Megan Fox. Should take the edge right off.

"Just buy Melbourne House's Transformers game on PS2"

Why didn't they just buy up that game, change the graphics for super-swizzy HDness and make some new levels to vaguely match the movie. I bet 99% of the ankle-biters who play this new TF game have never played the old PS2 one. And it could all have been done in the 9 months the dev team probaly got to create this pile of mediocrity.

@ anomagnus

Just quickly about the film and all the people that liked it and say 'what do you expect from a dumb robot film', it's the fact that Transformers could have been an amazing film. Using the source material in the right way we could have had some classic films, instead we ended up with trash. I think more people (like me) are just annoyed at the makers for doing such a poor job when there was such potential there. The other annoying thing as that because crap like this makes so much money they keep churning it out.

So, No.1 of the all formats chart by next weekend then.

:-D

Whilst reviews are all subjective opinion, and this is hardly likely to change the outcome, it does help if a reviewer either pays attention to the game's tutorial or documentation.

Holding down the LB button will slow you down, then ultimately reverse the vehicle mode.

Those that are knocking the control scheme without playing the game for themseleves shouldn't. It takes getting used to, but you do get used to it. If you want to stay as a car, racing around, stopping, reversing etc, buy Burnout Paradise.

If you want to play a fast paced, action packed shooter, where the point of the vehicle mode is to quickly evade a situation or use one to an advantage (the combos from going from vehicle to robot can turn a battle in your favour) the give this a go.

It's not for everyone, fans will love it, the multiplayer is a blast and it IS better than the first game.

How long did the reviewer actually play for? How much multiplayer was actually attempted? As it is brushed off in a few lines when it really is fun.

Do you even actually like Transformers? I doubt it given the tone of the review. Perhaps someone who might have been more interested should have reviewed this.

I heard the film is full of ridiculous humor like robots being stereotypes of stereotyped people. My worst kind of humor...

Disappointment awaits me I think...

And the first film was awesome! (Apart from the bit where they introduce themselves in cringeworthy fashion. 'Comedy' like that makes my eye twitch with rage!)

Transformers 2 is at least a 7/10. I would suggest that one play it oneself and see.

To each his own, I guess. I will respectfully disagree with Mr. Whitehead's (somewhat bitter sounding) assessment of this game's quality.

The control scheme lets me seamlessly transform and do crazy attacks and maneuvers between running/driving/flying/whathaveyou. It's quite fluid and unique. I especially love the special kills, and overdrive meter.

I've been playing Transformer 2's multiplayer like a mad man. The single player is fun, too. There is so much destruction and mayhem. It's quite cathartic.

The film was bloody awful.

It takes a special talent to take alien giant robots fighting eachother and blowing shit up to be so sodding boring. >:(

Here is a great review of the movie. "And [Sam] has the hottest girlfriend in the universe, Megan Fox, for whom banality is a huge aphrodisiac. The more pathetic Sam gets, the more Fox's lips pout and her nipples point, like little Irish setters."

@murphy1978

i'm sorry that they slaughtered your game:)

GameSpot gave this game 7.5 and IGN gave it 6.0 so they're totally at odds with EG as in it's "above average" rather than "below average". I'm not saying that they're right as such, I haven't yet played the game, but EG rated the surprisingly good IMO X-Men Origins Wolverine 5/10 when it has averaged mid-70s % on GameRankings and Metacritic. I think it deserved 7/10 personally as I loved the game, enough to complete it and play through it again, something of a rarity for me.

So?

Do all reviewers have to agree? Would make for a pretty boring world if everyone was the same as everyone else.

So an Epic movie with an Epic Fail game version. Not a first, though too bad... More or less we all love the theme. I dont know why its so freaking hard to make a game thats at least half the joy to play than watching the movie. Leave the arcade crap. Try to push it a bit.

Spielberg is working on games. Why the hell dont they make him responsible for the game's project as well instead of making a same date release movie/game and make the game a dissaster? I rather wait for it even a year more than the game being such a failure and never play it. I dont know why its so hard for them to not waste their time and our interest in something like this. What a bummer.

Just as the PS2 Transformers game was a lucky hit of quality followed by tedious rubbish that totally missed the point of what made it good in the first place, so is Transformers 2 the movie proof that Michael Bay making the first one surprisingly brilliant was a one off flash in the pan, and that he's firmly back to Bad Boys II era right wing macho posturing b*ll*cks.

But, at least the competition for article tag line of the year is hotting up. "Piston" indeed! :P

"@murphy1978

i'm sorry that they slaughtered your game:) "

Don't be sorry, even if you are not serious. I'm sorry that the majority of people seem easily swayed on the say so of someone that clearly wasn't taken by the game, and his negative views on the game, despite clearly not playing it for very long or with any attention.

I was trying to offer an alternative viewpoint. But then, I like Transformers, and didn't mind the movie. I also like fun multiplayer games.

"Shot down and piston"

HA! Nice byline Dan! It reminds me of a moment in the Heartbreak Kid. :D

Heres a great review of Transformers 2 by one of the uks top film critics Mark Kermode

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2...

I love people who rip the movies.

Why exactly did you go and see it? Anyone walking into a cinema to watch Transformers and wanting/expecting more than watching giant robots kick the crap out of each other is an idiot.

Why is there no review for the totally different DS versions of the game? Much better - as per the DS of the first film was much better that the others.