Once full you can tap the touch screen to upgrade your attacks for a limited amount of time. As you defeat enemies, a green upgrade gauge fills up at the top of the screen. While transformed you can move faster (obviously), jump over large gaps, and perform attacks that can break shields and return you to normal mode. You can also hit the jump button after the first or second attack to change up the combo a bit, and hitting jump after the first attack will perform a shield-breaking combo for when the Decepticons have shields.
While you’re not transformed (if there’s a better Transformer-related term for this mode, I have no idea what it is) you can perform combo attacks by hitting the attack button up to three times. The controls don’t take too long to get the hang of as each Autobot pretty much does the same thing. In each stage you control a different Autobot through that part of the story (at this point, the four Autobots have been split up, so Ratchet heads out to find them). This is where the main part of the game begins (though you do control Optimus Prime while on the meteor, it pretty much acts as the games tutorial). However, something cracks the meteor, splits its it apart into pieces, and sends the Autobots falling towards the planet below. The Autobots take out the tethers and prevent Megatron from intervening. Optimus Prime, Arcee, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead head out to a meteor where the readings were coming from, which was tethered to Megatron’s ship. As the story begins, the Autobots detect a large amount of dark energon nearby some Decepticon readings. Thankfully, you don’t need to know anything about the series to understand the game itself (trust me, I’ve played a few games in which if you don’t know anything about what it’s based on, you’re screwed when it comes to understanding the story).
To begin with, I knew nothing about Transformers Prime going into this, just that it was a CGI animated series. In fact, three of the previous games reviewed here on Gaming Nexus scored around a B or higher (Fall of Cybertron, War for Cybertron, and Dark of the Moon), so for once, I went into a TV-based video game with some high expectations, but can the success of past games carry over to a game based off an animated series? Let’s find out with Transformers Prime for the Nintendo 3DS. One exception as of the past couple of years seems to be games based on Transformers.
That way you won’t be too disappointed when you find out that, once again, a movie-based video game turns out rather poorly. It seems that when it comes to video games based off of movies and TV shows, it’s best to go into them with low expectations.
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