Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons is a video game based on 2009 live action film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, itself part of the Transformers franchise, which depicts the conflict between the Autobots and the Decepticons, both factions of the eponymous alien race, who can change their form into various vehicles; in the game, the remaining Decepticons are being hunted throughout the world by the Autobots and mankind, but unbeknownst to them, the Decepticons, aided by The Fallen, a former Prime and the first Decepticon, have devised a plan to resurrect their deceased leader Megatron and use The Fallen's Sun Harvester to produce enough Energon to destroy their rivals once and for all and subjugate Earth.

See also: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (video game) and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons
Developer(s)Vicarious Visions
Publisher(s)Activision
DreamWorks Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Hasbro
Composer(s)Jeff Rona
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: June 23, 2009
Genre(s)Action Adventure
Mode(s)Single-player, Multiplayer

It was developed by Vicarious Visions, published by Activision, and released in June 2009 in North America. The game is a Nintendo DS port of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game, and, unlike it, features only one campaign, focused entirerly on the Decepticons; instead, a separate game, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots, which focuses entirerly on the Autobots, was developed in parallel with Decepticons and was also released in 2009.

Gameplay

As with Transformers: The Game, the DS version of Revenge of the Fallen splits the Autobot and Decepticon campaigns into two different games. The two games feature 25 missions in total, and the ability to battle friends via the handheld's Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Similar to Transformers Decepticons, players must customize their own Transformer, known as "Create-A-Bot", who can be furthered customized during the game using parts found in missions. The difference between this game and its predecessors is that while scanning a vehicle to choose an alternate form, players are limited to "light" vehicles, which are fast but weak, "medium" vehciles, which are fast and strong, and "heavy" vehicles, which are strong but slow, and the protoform can't scan another vehicle once one has been already chosen. Another addition is that multiple weapons, armor and upgrades can be found throughout the game.

Synopsis

Setting

The game takes place a few years after the events of Transformers: The Game. The evil Decepticon leader Megatron has been killed, and the powerful AllSpark has been shattered into numerous fragments, scattered around Earth, to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. Despite Megatron's death however, numerous Decepticons are still active in various places around the world, forcing the heroic Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, to work with mankind to hunt them down. Unbeknownst to the Autobots, The Fallen, a former Prime and the first Decepticon, has returned, and is aiding the current Decepticons with their plan to revive Megatron and subjugate Earth; The Fallen also seeks to find and reactivate the ruins of an old machine known as the Sun Harvester, which will provide the Decepticons with enough Energon to finally defeat the Autobots, at the expense of destroying the Sun and all life on Earth.

Characters

Similar to the first set of Transformers games for the DS, the player gets to create their own character which they play as throughout the campaign. Many of the main Transformers from the movie appear throughout the story to aid the player, and several are available to play as in challenges.

  • Create-A-Bot: The player character, who is depicted as a Transformer having just recently arrived on Earth and joined the Decepticons.
  • The Fallen (voiced by James Arnold Taylor): A former Prime and the first Decepticon, as well as their supreme ruler. Though unplayable, he is seen in the last mission of the game.
  • Megatron (voiced by Frank Welker): The deceased leader of the Decepticons, who becomes The Fallen's right-hand disciple upon being revived by his minions. He can transform into a Cybertronian flying tank, and is only playable in challenge missions.
  • Starscream (voiced by Charlie Adler): The Decepticons' second-in-command and temporary leader, in Megatron's absence. He is playable in the tutorial in robot form, and in a few story and challenge missions in his Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor jet form.
  • Soundwave (voiced by Peter Jessop): The Decepticons' tech genius and a Transformer of few words. Though unplayable, he makes several appearances throughout the game, and gives the player useful hints.
  • Grindor: (voiced by Fred Tatasciore): A Decepticon lieutenant who transforms into a Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low helicopter; he looks identical to Blackout from the previous game, and they may be the same character. Though unplayable, he appears in several story missions.
  • Sideways: (voiced by John DiMaggio): A Decepticon lieutenant and a relatively recent addition to the Decepticon forces on Earth. He can transform into an Audi R8, and is only playable in challenge missions.
  • Barricade: A Decepticon lieutenant who transforms into a Ford Mustang Saleen S281E police car. He is only playable in challenge missions.
  • Devastator: A massive Decepticon made out of six regular-sized ones, known as the "Consturcticons". Though unplayable, he is seen in the background of the last mission of the game.
  • Scorponok: Grindor's minion resembling a scorpion. Though he doesn't appear in the game, he is featured as a mini-boss in the last mission of the Autobots game; here, the boss fight against Scorponok is replaced with that against a NEST helicopter.
  • Reedman, Ravage, Demolishor, and Scalpel are only mentioned in the game and, therefore, unplayable

Plot

After being informed of Soundwave about Create-A-Bot crashing on Earth, Starscream tracks him down and introduces himself as the Decepticon leader, persuading the newly arrived Transformer to join the Decepticons. They are then attacked by a group of Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, but manage to escape, and Create-A-Bot chooses one out of three human vehicles as his alternate form. After destroying several Autobots in the area, including the Create-A-Bot from Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots, the pair return to the Decepticon base, where Create-A-Bot receives his first task: to scan and then destroy several NEST data vehicles that contain Megatron's whereabouts, as well as to help track down an AllSpark shard. Meanwhile, Grindor and Starscream attack and destroy an oil rig off the coast of England in order to distract NEST and the Autobots, allowing Create-A-Bot to attack Rome, Italy. During the attack, he is confronted by the Autobot Bumblebee, who calls in a NEST air strike, but Create-A-Bot hacks into the UAVs and re-directs the bombs, before defeating Bumblebee and escaping.

Shortly after, Create-A-Bot travels to Siberia and infiltrates a military base, where he plants tracking device on a helicopter that is on-route to the location of the AllSpark shard. While Soundwave tracks the helicopter, Create-A-Bot heads to Asia to attack a NEST aribase. Once he succeeds, he is informed by Soundwave that the shard has been moved to an aircraft carrier. After retrieving it, Create-A-Bot heads to the Laurentian Abyss, where Megatron's body is kept deep underwater. Grindor lowers Create-A-Bot into the water, allowing him to retrieve Megatron's remains and then revive him using the shard. Megatron subsequently assumes command of the Decepticons once again, much to Starscream's frustration.

Megatron then becomes the servant of The Fallen, a former Prime and the first Decepticon, who seeks to harvest the power from the Sun and transform it into enough Energon for the Decepticons to finally destroy the Autobots, using his old Sun Harvester, which will also destroy the Sun and all life on Earth in the process. However, the Decepticons first need to help The Fallen and his forces arrive on Earth undetected, which they do after attacking an Autobot base in Mexico and destroying its satellite defense system. The Fallen then orders the Decepticons to retrieve the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which he needs in order to activate the Sun Harvester. To find it, Create-A-Bot is sent to hunt down The Fallen's former servant Jetfire, but he is protected by Autobots aboard an aircraft carrier. Create-A-Bot manages to board the carrier, where he defeats the Autobot Ironhide, before confronting Jetfire. When he refuses to reveal the Matrix's whereabouts, Create-A-Bot rips Jetfire's spark out of his body, killing him and extracting the information he wanted.

Learning that the Matrix is in Egypt, the Decepticons travel there, and The Fallen unleashes the massive Decepticon Devastator to uncover the Sun Harvester from within a pyramid. Meanwhile, Create-A-Bot is sent to retrieve the Matrix, finding it in the possession of Optimus Prime. After defeating Optimus, he claims the Matrix and returns to The Fallen, informing him of his victory against Optimus, much to both his and Megatron's surprise. The Fallen then has Create-A-Bot replace Megatron as leader of the Decepticons, much to Starscream's joy, and later announces that the harvesting of the Sun was a success, providing the Decepticons with tons of Energon and allowing them to create an army large enough to conquer the known universe.

Reception
Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankings69%[1]
Metacritic66/100[2]
Review scores
PublicationScore
GamesRadar+[3]
GameZone7/10[4]
IGN7/10[5]
Nintendo Power7/10[6]
Nintendo World Report7/10[7]

Decepticons was met with average reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 69%,[1] while Metacritic gave it 66 out of 100.[2]

Nintendo Power gave the game 7 out of 10, stating, "This may be the first time in video game history that a licensed DS title far exceeds the movie it's based on."[6] IGN gave the game a score of 7 out of 10, stating that it "represents Transformers well".[5]

gollark: Few of the teachers here are very technologically competent.
gollark: This is pretty worrying for me since I'm doing my GCSEs in... a month and a half, now?
gollark: They're setting up stuff on "Microsoft Teams" (said school really likes Microsoft) for each subject, but don't seem to have much of a plan for actually teaching people stuff online.
gollark: Kind of? I'm in the UK.
gollark: My school is kind of half-heartedly making plans in case they have to shut down.

References
  1. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Decepticons for DS". GameRankings. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  2. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Decepticons for DS Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  3. Peck, Carey (June 30, 2009). "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots/Decepticons review". GamesRadar. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  4. Liebman, Dan (July 16, 2009). "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Decepticons - NDS - Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on August 7, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  5. Harris, Craig (June 24, 2009). "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Decepticons Review". IGN. Archived from the original on June 28, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
  6. "Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons". Nintendo Power. 244: 90. September 2009.
  7. Miller, Zachary; Ronaghan, Neal (September 19, 2009). "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots and Decepticons". Nintendo World Report. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.