A Rare Example of a Tie In Game that's Better than the Movie.
Revenge of the Fallen is genuinely a great movie game, but doesn't hold much on its own. If you care for the series then this will help clean the stench that was this film. RotF is a mix between beat em up stages and on rails racing and flying stages. Interestingly, you get to play as both the Decepticons and the Autobots, which isn’t a new idea but this is normally done between two games in a dual release on the DS, which this game also got.
There are also bosses, which to be frank are normally more based on spectacle than difficulty with a ton of quick time events. There's also some platforming that is really boring due to how heavy all the players are, meaning you just slowly leap from one pillar to another. On occasion, you even find these odd hacking minigames that are pretty fun, but I am far too stupid so thank god they put in an option to skip them.
I know I haven’t said much and haven’t been too positive, but the normal fighting, driving and flying gameplay is actually good enough to be pretty entertaining for the games relatively short runtime, around 4-5 hours. You can attack with light attacks, heavy attacks, blocking, shooting and heavy shooting. I think my only real issue is that the characters can transform on the fly, but instead the walking and driving levels are different.