Uh… Is That Soundwave I Hear?
I’m late on reporting this trailer for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game — so late that I almost considered not running it at all. and then I gave it a watch and I’ll be damned if that’s not Soundwave making a brief voiceover in the middle of the commercial (there’s an Autobot half and a Decepticon half, and it’s reasonably clever). Is this what Soundwave will sound like in the movie? Did Activision not know which way Bay was going to go, had to make a decision of their own, and decided to make Soundwave sound as classic as possible? I’m not sure, but if Soundwave genuinely talk like that in the flick, I will be pleased.
Oh, the game is pretty much Virtual On with the Bayformers, which seems fine. If the stages are large enough, there’ll actually be a reason to use the vehicle modes occasionally, which would be nice. Thanks to everyone who sent in the tip.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.