Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)
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The Xbox 360/Sony Playstation 3/Windows PC versions of Revenge of the Fallen: The Game follows a number of Autobots and Decepticons through a loose approximation of the movie's plot. The game has two campaigns, one for each faction. It is the first Transformers game on a console to feature online play.
Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Synopsis
Autobot campaign
The Autobot campaign begins when NEST pilot Sgt. Epps reports Decepticons in Shanghai, China. Upon the arrival of the Autobots, Major Lennox tells them there are Decepticons in the perimeter who must not escape. Ironhide is sent to fight them. Ironhide then battles and defeats Sideways. When Optimus Prime gets word that Ironhide is missing, Ratchet heads out to find him and get him to safety. After locating Ironhide, his power is recharged and another Decepticon battle ensues. The Decepticon forces then attack Shanghai's waterfront. After annihilating Decepticon troops, Optimus Prime battles Demolishor. Upon his defeat and before Optimus Prime deactivates him, Demolishor states that The Fallen shall rise again. Before leaving Shanghai, Breakaway finds and restores the NEST communications devices while eliminating the remnants of the decepticons forces.
The Autobots then head to Burbank, California where a previously unknown fragment of the All Spark has surfaced, now in possession of Mikaela Banes. Bumblebee is sent to protect Mikaela when the Decepticons detect the fragment also. After getting Mikaela and the fragment to safety, the Autobots get word that the Decepticons are attacking a nearby oil refinery and have trapped some engineers there. Ratchet locates the engineers and gets them to safety. A NEST unit headed up by Epps is surrounded by Decepticons at the West Coast Canal and need the Autobots to escort them to safety. With the NEST unit saved by Ironhide, Optimus informs the Autobots they need to achieve their goals better if they are to repel the Decepticons.
The All Spark Fragment held by the Americans has been stolen. NSA Chief Theodore Galloway reveals Megatron's location to the Decepticons. With Megatron's body in the Laurentian Abyss, Optimus tells the Autobots that if the fragment reaches Megatron's remains, he will be reborn. Breakaway ends up defending a Carrier Ship group guarding Megatron's corpse from the Decepticons. Breakaway repairs the damaged anti-aircraft guns and rescues the wounded soldiers. After all that is done, Megatron is reactivated.
Ironhide begins restoring the NEST Communication Arrays after fending off some Decepticon troops. After all NEST Communication Arrays are restored, Optimus Prime informs the Autobots that a Decepticon incursion is occurring on the East Coast.
Sam Witwicky has been kidnapped by the Decepticon troops and has been taken to an industrial park near his college. Bumblebee fights the Decepticon troops while Ratchet traces Sam's location through the defeated Decepticons. Ratchet manages to locate Sam in an abandoned foundry and sends Bumblebee the coordinates. Bumblebee rescues Sam and gets him to safety. When they reach the extraction point, Grindor attacks. Bumblebee manages to defeat him. To aid their allies against the Decepticons, Optimus Prime decides to give them advanced weaponry and takes the cargo containing the Axion Gun to NEST HQ. Optimus Prime helps defend Cargo Truck 37 (ridden shotgun by Sgt. Epps) from the Decepticon troops. After getting the convoy to its destination, the Autobots depart to meet up with Sam Witwicky who is going to visit an old acquaintance who might know what the Decepticons seek.
Decepticon Campaign
The Decepticon campaign begins in Shanghai with Sideways tracking down Autobots in his area. He then learns that Grindor has gone missing and Sideways must find, repair, and transport Grindor to the extraction site. Once Grindor is safe, he attacks Autobots protecting NEST arrays and infiltrates them with a virus. This virus will give the Decepticons access to NEST communications. Next, Long Haul is used to destroy NEST bases located around the city of Shanghai. Finally, Ironhide emerges to fight Long Haul. Ironhide is killed and Starscream proclaims the victory as a message to Optimus Prime.
The Decepticons then head to Burbank, California. Soundwave has learned that Sam Witwicky has given a shard of the All Spark to Mikaela. They hope to recover the shard and revive Megatron. Long Haul destroys buildings, capturing men who may know Mikaela's location. However, the probe Starscream uses kills the first three before they can be of any use. Although the last engineer dies, Starscream is able to discover Mikaela's location. Long Haul is once again sent to recover her. Unfortunately, Starscream receives word that the Decepticon troops transporting Mikaela have been intercepted by the Autobots. After her capture, the Decepticons head to the East Coast.
Response
Technical errors and oddities
- In the PC version, when you insert the game disc for the first time, the game crashes as soon as it reaches the Paramount logo screen. The only way to fix this is to restart your computer, however, the error will instantly return the next time you insert the disc, thus forcing you to restart your computer again. The only way to avoid this glitch is to keep the disc in your CD drive.
Quotes
"Today, one shall stand, and one shall fall."
- —Optimus Prime homages like its 1986.
"All units: let the slaughter begin!"
- —Megatron does as well.
"I see a Decepticon, I attack a Decepticon."
- —Bumblebee kills and kills and kills.
Optimus: We are accomplishing our objectives with great speed and less damage to the surroundings.
Ratchet: Except for the incident where Ironhide destroyed that ice cream truck.
Ironhide: It was emitting a Decepticon audio signature!
Ratchet: It was playing a song.
- —As before, Ironhide is way too trigger happy.
Starscream: We Decepticons are always swift in battle!
Grindor: Although you, Starscream, are equally swift in retreating.
Starscream: I have never retreated! EVER!
Grindor: Of course not. You simply advance backwards.
[Starscream roars in anger]
- —Grindor takes up Blackout's job of dissing Starscream.
Trivia
- Throughout the North American levels, there are billboards for films such as The Atoll, Tough Guyz, Earth's End, and The Stone.
- For destroying 250 Decepticons in the Autobot campaign, you earn the Awesome Achievement/Trophy.
- For destroying 350 Autobots in the Decepticon campaign, you earn the Bad Boys Achievement/Trophy.
- Six episodes of the Generation 1 cartoon can be unlocked in the course of the game: S.O.S. Dinobots, Fire on the Mountain, War of the Dinobots, and The Ultimate Doom, Parts 1, 2, and 3.
- G1-style colour schemes for Ironhide and Starscream can be unlocked for both single and multiplayer modes. Additionally, a yellow colour scheme can be unlocked for Long Haul, making him more closely resemble a conventional (or Tonka) dump truck.
- As in the previous games, Frank Welker returns as Megatron. He does not, however, voice any of the characters (Soundwave, Grindor, and Devastator) he did in the movie.
Differences between the Game and Movie
- The Decepticons are not looking for the Matrix of Leadership as they did in the movie, but the solar harvester itself.
- Breakaway did not appear in the movie.
- In the movie, Bumblebee is still having troubles with his speech. In the game, he has completely regained his speech.
- Jetfire's death is altered. In the movie, he commits suicide and gives his parts to Optimus. In the games, he is either stabbed by Megatron before giving his parts to Optimus (Autobot campaign) or killed by the player (Decepticon campaign).
- In the movie, Sideways is killed by Sideswipe. In the Autobot campaign, he is killed by Ironhide (or whoever the player is), since Sideswipe is absent in this game. Maybe because he was a last minute addition to the movie...but damn, is he cool!
- In the movie, Devastator is killed at the pyramids. In the game, he is killed in Cairo.
- The Autobots did not supply the humans with a weapon to battle the Decepticons in the movie.
