Yet another video game made after a movie!can it topple over other games or just be a dissapointment?
First Off i started out on the auto bots storyline mainly because i wanted to play as the great optimus prime!Anyways you start the story out playing as bumble-bee. You need to fight some decepticon drones. No big deal eh. After the somewhat long fight theres a series of other missions involving Sam. Of course i was suprised i even beat those decepticons because the camera kept on screwing up,so i spent an hour or so learning how to play the game and how to control the camera. The camera is controlled with by pointing the wii mote at the screen. This screws you up the most when fighting.During a fight you need to flick the wii mote left and right to do various combos. Of course this sends the camera flying to each corner so basically you need to keep pressing the minus button to reset the camera behind your transformer. While i was learning the basic's of the game you can get bonus features by doing such heroic autobot deads. This can be from being heroic by destroying the decepiticons or even just attacking them,other ways to get autobot points can be when you jump,slide(in a car) or fast(it says speed). Im not too sure how the last three are all that autobotish. Anywhoo while in a fight i threw a gaint wheel at an enemy. It missed because i had bad aim and hit a building. The building got damaged and caused me to get a bad juju point(an X over the autobot symbol) I find it absurb with the red X feature since its somewhat impossible to not cause destruction. Like come on at points your a gaint robot in a small neighbourhood,or you need to smash things so peices of rubble will come off to throw at your opponents(and alot of opponents can only be destroyed by throwing) I find how youre not supposed to destroy things on of the biggest flaws in the game(besides camera) for the fact that there is a mission where you must destroy builings so your fellow autobots can get away.
The camera is not only difficult to control but very annoying and most likely the death of you when fighting an opponent. To control the camera you must point the wiimote at the screen. When trying to change the angle it turns your bot around which is not only slow and time consuming but dangerous when fighting. To fight you swing your controller left or right to do various combos. This can get awfully confusing esspecailly if the conrol is tipped up or back because your bot will attempt to pick something up. Aiming(for your guns) is also done with the wii mote,it wont do much good since mot of the enemys are so badass bullets dont hurt them(well most of them) Anywho this is easily the most annoying feature of the game and will get you most frusterated. When i first started the game i spent an hour or so trying to get used to the camera.If the wiimote sensitivity is set to high switch to low or you will get mad and frusturated and feel like throwing the controller threw the screen.
Im not sure if the game's story is similar to the movie. In the first chapter you need to destroy some decepticons.This follows by beating some decepticons to the car lot so the Sam guy can pick you as a car. So basically you need to get the decepticons to become the robots again so you can kill them. After this happens optimus prime gets you to look over Sam. A decepticon called barricade tries and attacks him but then bumblebee comes stopping him. When sam and his friend saw his car transform there were no emotions except "Hey,my car" followed by "Cool where can i get one".I find it retarted how two people arent scared by there cars coming to life and attacking eachother destroying the entire city.For the first mission as the decepticons you basically need to destroy the entire military base in a set amount of time as blackout. This was probably the most fun mission i played in this game yet. Another part of the game is when the police are constantly chasing you. If anyone ever played hulk ultimate destruction then you would know that when just going around destroying things the police are somewhat like mostquitoes annoying you. Anyways in this game it takes a while for them to reach you. Alot of times they come with tanks and helicopters. The good part is that the enviroment is basically fully destructable. You can go smash a building and then throw the gaint hotdog on top at a helicopter. I found roaming and destroying stuff very fun. So i put missions off for a bit. Driving as a car was actually so very annoying. Especailly during missions. Steering is very hard to control and its a slow reaction time. You cant back up which is the worst especailly in missions where cars ram into you then the only way to get out it transform back into a bot and back into a car. Flying is very easy and not much flaws to it.
The graphics are actually pretty good of course the game on the xbox 360 or the playstation three probably would've looks much better infact take a look at the Wii version pic and a pic from the 360 version(ill add urls)
Now to how fun the game. Even with all this complaints,once you take a while to learn how to control the camera and how to attack.etc,then the game actually becomes somewhat fun,whether your driving,flying,fighting,destroying whatever,the game can be a blast at times when your not paying attention to the crappy camera and difficult controls.
This game is awarded a 6/10. For crappy camera controls,difficult driving and battling. The five is for somewhat okay graphics and for quite fun gameplay.Now i was quite suprised with this game since its a game made after a movie. Most movie games arent all that great and im probably not the only one who thinks so. Games like the spider man trilogy were quite good and was also developed by activsion. Fantastic four was very bad,gfames like chronicles of narnia have its moments. Other movie games like the star war's series was bad same with street fighter the movie the game. This game was actually very suprising. When i got it i thought it would simply be another movie game.It has its flaws but what game doesnt. The game is fun so i recomend it.(not sure about any other versions)