2004-07-28

Transformers: Good Game, Terrible Ending

So I finally beat Transformers. Got all the mini-cons and data-cons (although it was only on the easiest difficulty setting, so there's some I can't even find, as in, they're not there yet). The last boss is Unicron, except a little pussy watered-down Unicron that the Unicron from the movie could rip in two with a thought. You get the "ultimate" Mini-cons - as far as I could tell, you got one that let you fly around, and a gun that shoot out a bunch of glitter. Then, in a bizarre cross between Independence Day and Anal Sluts 9, you fly up into Unicron as he's attacking Cybertron and shot him with the glitter gun.

Yeah.

The ending was... lame. Unicron is destroyed, uttering the same lines he does in the movie, except it's not Orson Welles doing them. Then all the minicons fall to Cybertron, and our three heroes come out, triumphant. They're cheered, and a giant neon billboard lights up with the Cybertron logo.

Cue credits.

Then we go back to Cybertron for more cheering, and Optimus Prime steals another movie quote, "Until the day, when all are one."

There's a lot of that. "Unicron must be stopped, no matter the cost." is a variation of "Megatron must be stopped... no matter the cost" before Optimus rips apart the attacking Decepticons at Autobot City.

I'm not going to keep the game to beat it on the higher difficulty settings. I don't really see a point - bragging rights? a handful more minicons? Whoop-de freaking do. There're only two good unlocks anyway - TV spots (PSAs) featuring G1 Transformers, and CG movies from the game.

I really didn't care for a lot about this game, but it mainly has to do with the evolution of the transformers. They seem... younger. Starscream, especially. He reminds me of some little teenage punk who's got an axe to grind with the world.

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