Fighting as the Decepticons
Since I finished BioShock twice, I decided that I should go back and finish the Transformers game. I beat the Autobot campaign a while back, but I was frustrated with the Decepticon campaign and subsequently found other stuff to do with my time. Scorponok was what did it for me — he’s slow and weak, easily the most worthless character in the game, and yet you’re stuck playing as him. With the game only 50% complete, I started playing the Decepticon levels in earnest last week.
Finishing each chapter wasn’t very difficult. The fighting is painfully simple, since the majority of Autobot drones die with one or two hits. The hard part is beating the clock, like when you have to find Optimus in sixty seconds, but he’s hiding somewhere in the city. The only way to make the game difficult is to put a timer in there, which cheapens the whole experience. I can understand the use of a timer in a mini-game, but it gets aggravating when every mission is “do x in y seconds”.
The nice thing about the Decepticon campaign is that you are rewarded for being evil. You get bonuses for blowing things up. And each boss battle is a kill. After you defeat Ironhide, there is an animated sequence where Optimus mourns the deaths of Bumblebee, Jazz and Ironhide (with the same lack of feeling that he mourned Jazz in the movie, unfortunately).
What was the last thing to go through Optimus Prime’s mind? Megatron’s mace. I’m glad that these weren’t G1 characters now, since I’d hate to see them all die like this. I don’t have the same feelings for the movie characters since I didn’t grow up with them. The last scene is of Megatron, seated in Lincoln’s throne at the Lincoln Memorial, commanding his Decepticons while Washington DC burns around them.
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