


Chat is available from the game lobby but team chat is enabled only when battle has begun. Teams can strategize to make use of the special attacks of their characters to defeat their opponents. Each Transformer has a unique primary weapon, secondary weapon, and special attack. The online multiplayer offers a distinct new challenge, and it is best played when you have mastered the controls. Either way, handling is a bit tricky until you get the hang of things. The right trigger transforms you into a vehicle, either a flying one, or a driving one, depending on your character of course. Holding the left trigger turns you into a weapon which allows you to strafe and blast opponents with your primary and secondary weapons.

In robot mode, you are in your humanoid form and you can jump, climb buildings, and attack. There are 3 different Transformer modes: robot, weapon, and vehicle. Thank goodness Revenge of the Fallen has loose ties with the movie little human exposure is needed, therefore reducing the painful noise. The two main transformers, Megatron and Optimus Prime sounds great, but everything and everybody else are difficult to understand due to poor voice matching or over robotic effects. The characters are nicely detailed and very shiny.

Each of the 2 modes are different and unique to enough for a worthwhile play, twice over. There are 2 campaign modes in the game one Autobot and one Decepticon. It takes a while to get used to the game's controls, but once you get there, Revenge of the Fallen is really entertaining. Transforming in between these forms is the biggest trick of all, and the hardest one to master. At first steering yourself is a bit awkward, then when you start to fly you realize it is a much more bigger problem. You walk, jump, and climb, and did I mention you get to whip out to your enemies hyper guns? You can drive yourself around the city and in various other locales. The general idea of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is as follows: you take on the form of a humanoid, fully functional.
