The BEST Nintendo DS Game You've Never Played - Transformers Decepticons DS 

Check out the sequels to this video with the links below! Thank you for the overwelming support on this video over the past week, its been phenomenal to see such an amazing amount of people remember and celebrate this game! Transformers Decepticons ROTF Review > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-neCn3pQ4rjc.html Transformers Autobots > ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b4PdNmR24mY.html

this game was GTA for me

This game gave the Decepticons more personality than the 5 bayverse movie combined

When our boy hit Megatron with the, "But can be repaired" line. Man I shed a tear as I realized his fate was sealed.

This game was incredible. I remember loving it as a kid. The sequel version sucked. I remember buying it with my saved up money and being so disappointed that it completely changed the gameplay and made it worse.

“Weakness breeds fear, and fear makes every ally an enemy” that line from Barricade stuck with me to this day

It does my heart good to see people talking about this game. I thought for the longest time that I was the only one who played it. It's so good! Wonderful video! Keith David was a freaking God-tier choice for Barricade. Just too perfect

I think the best part about Megatron's betrayal of your team at the end of the game is that at that point, he has a magical cube that in the film lets Frenzy's severed head shit out a new body, can fold itself from the size of a warehouse to the size of a fedex package, and give life to any random electronic object. He has all the resources in the universe and still calls fixing his most loyal subjects a waste. It makes the line hit extra hard and solidifies that Barricade either THOUGHT he had Megatron figured out, or gave him a bit of depth as having some kind of inferiority complex that serving Megatron stoked into suicidal zeal.

Hands down, my favorite DS games growing up and it really did feel like no one else knew about them. Hell, there was no place to discuss them even. The sheer breadth of having massive open world maps, fun combat and locomotion, a shitload of different vehicle forms to use, a top tier list of VAs and a pretty underrated story, and this easily ranks as one of the best Transformers games, period. My only gripe was that you couldn't scan and use police/military vehicles and, in the Autobot version (the one I played), you were closed off from jet modes completely unless you did Target event thing that granted you a jet character (one that never even appeared in the story?) What really annoys me about it, is that there's a secret hangar on the Hoover Dam map with jets and choppers in it and YOU COULDN'T SCAN THE DAMN JET! Seriously, that would've been an amazing secret to get!

It’s crazy to me that Steve Blum is in this game and they didn’t have him voice Starscream, just a custom character. His Starscream in Transformers Prime was amazing, they had the perfect guy for the role here and didn’t even know it.

I played the autobots version and the ability to scan cars, add them to your collection, and then drive around the city swapping out cars was absolutely amazing

This game's ending is kind of a redpill that shows those edgy kids that being the villain isn't cool after all. I was one of those kids for the most part, and this ending could've been a real eye-opener for me, had I played it. But yeah, pretty solid experience overall.

I think another great thing about this is that it’s an “if the bad guys won” version of a story, thus allowing more creativity when writing the story.

" Game You've Never Played " - Immediately recognized the cover of the same game I obsessed over when I was younger Super happy to see people are covering the game! I know I'm late, but still. Absolutely ADORED the game.

There defintiely was a missed opportunity where you could side with Starscream by letting Megatron die in Hoover Dam. Imagine a seperate campaign where you work with Starscream to kill the other Decepticons for not siding with him and any other Autobots but at the end of it all he kills you because he has no need for you.

I always loved the story, it’s dark moments and it’s twists. Very fitting for the Deceptions. Shame that Optimus wasn’t more of a threat though.

I played these two games an unbelievable amount when I was a kid. I remember looking around for hours for rare car/color spawns

Fun fact, you can use the jumping that Jazz does against him. Running towards the Hoover Dam will cause Jazz to chase you but due to his constant jumping, he can't catch up to you. Once at the water below the dam, just wait for him to catch up and he'll jump off the edge into the water which kills Jazz immediately

Saw the thumbnail and I clicked. Agree 100%. Best movie tie in, and exploring hoover damn was awesome.

This game's narrative is some of the best in all of Transformers history. It's a real shame it's so underappreciated cause it deserves more love and attention.

This was my most played game on DS 100% such a hidden gem, really unfortunate more people didn't pick this one up. Best open world handheld game hands down. Great video thanks for covering this!

This game was my entire childhood, a huge part of a young obsession with transformers, and the scanning dynamic was amazing, I remember trying really hard to find secret vehicles to scan and turn into

I love how the games story highlights how fundamentally flawed the decepticons ideology real is, Megatron wins but is the only survivor (I've always seen the exchange between megs and your bot as an implication that brawl died offscreen) which means he's without close allies at the very least. A line that prime says during his fight is "you'll never build an empire", add that with starscreams line about someone will always go against Megatron is also interesting because it implies the only ones who knew megs the most know how destructive Megatron as a leader really is. This game's plot had more meaning than it ever should have had and I respect the writers for it.

I think this just completes the cycle of exactly how much influence Keith David has had over my life without me realising. Halo, Transformers, The Thing, Princess and the Frog etc.

I remember playing this game and the auto bots version when I was a kid matter a fact I remember buying both of these games twice because I lost both of them. I loved how both stories somewhat interlinked with one another depending on which side you chose. The whole scanning vehicles was awesome as well especially the multiplayer mode that gave you more vehicles like the jet. I remember playing the multiplayer a lot with my brother for hours when I was a kid. I kinda forgot about these games until this randomly popped up on my feed so thank you RU-vid and thank you piranharoni for making this video

Ok but, Frank welker’s megatron voice in this game was phenomenal, comparable to his g1 voice. How could they not have that be the movie voice?!?! I can totally see movie megatron talking like this.

I remember playing the autobots version and I was so pissed that I couldn’t get the jet. I basically only bought the decepticons version to play as Starscream and stayed for the awesome story! :D

I played transformers Autobots on DS and my it was amazing. I remember being annoyed because you couldn't scan flying vehicles, and the rumor was they were available in decepticons 😳

Daaaaamn didn't think a video like this would show up, brings back memories I remember I had both the Autobots and Decepticon versions and there was 1 mission I couldn't get past as a kid. these games was great, glad to see it again

I remember playing this as a kid, and I assumed that other people just didn't know what it was or that it even existed. It's nice to see it get the recognition in some form that it deserves.

GOD i remember trying to look online for all the secret cars' locations back in like 2009 and it was legit the most fun ive had with a game in life. this game was suberb. thanks for the refreshing of memories :D

This game was literally so amazing and it definitely sparked my love for gaming back in 2007-2008. I remember absolutely wasting so many hours on it as a kid but loving the story soooo much and this game sparked my love for my favorite transformer, starscream.

this was literally the one ds game i played so much, free roam was amazing i would try and find helicopters and jets to scan so i can fly around the map lol

I had no idea other people even cared about this game. I found the cartridge (who knows where) and loved it when I was younger Definitely one of my most played DS games

What's great about Megatron's dialogue with Optimus, it's a huge callback to the 1986 film with Megatron saying "It is over Prime"

That close up of Starscream’s grundle while Megatron raves about others feeling his might is that special something that made this game great.

I remember playing this and the autobots version, the mission where you control starscream was an absolute pain for me for weeks, trying to move with inverted controls was a challenge, but I practiced so much that now any game that has a section with inverted controls in it i can easily just change over. never finished the autobots version because when i first booted it up i set it to french and didn't understand a thing and couldn't change it, i got to one of the hoover dam levels and was stuck.

I just realized that Starscream told the player to not go to the arctic for it would be a waste of energy, but he actually didn’t anybody else to possibly find megatron first. This leads to him appearing in the arctic in the autobots version as a boss battle, during which he mentions himself having plans which is to find megatron. It’s pretty cool seeing the two versions crossover at times and makes me appreciate the way this this game as a whole and starscream were written. I know I’m most likely not the first to realize this but it was a very interesting realization.

I played both versions of this game. Fun fact: You can get a helicopter early by grinding XP until you can climb on the Vegas map. I couldn't tell you exactly where as it's been years, but there's a building that has a corner plaza, and the tier above the plaza has a helicopter on it you can scan once you can climb up that wall.

Your video inspired me to go back and replay this game. It was one of my favorites as a kid. I truly, honestly think it holds up to this day. The thing I loved the most about this game was that it had a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of the dynamic between Megatron, Starscream and the Decepticon subordinates. I believe this game has an even better portrayal of Starscream than you give it credit for, and because of a subtext that runs throughout the entire plot: Hypocrisy. The more I think about this game's story, the more I think that Starscream was the lesser of two evils between him and Megatron. Even as a kid, I never understood why the other Decepticons saw Starscream as a hypocrite or coward. Think about it: Barricade calls Starscream a backstabber and conniver. Someone who would kill you in your sleep. And that Megatron would have the "ball bearings" to kill you to your face. But take a look at their actual actions, since actions speak louder than words - Starscream literally personally kills the Decepticons who betray him, right to their faces (I interpreted Brawl's disappearance as Starscream killing him offscreen). He even gave Barricade a chance to submit before killing him. And he personally fought Megatron even after losing the Allspark. IMO now that I think about it... calling Starscream a coward and backstabber was all just projection since Starscream was the only one to personally stand up to Megatron. Whereas with Megatron, look at what he does after the final battle. After fucking EVERYTHING that you've done for him. After Starscream specifically told you "You must ensure Megatron is never revived." After you betray Starscream for Megatron due to that and... honestly mostly Peer Pressure from the other Decepticons. Who told you that Starscream is a backstabber and "You always know where you stand with Megatron. That he would have the ball bearings to kill you to your face." After you literally do everything to help him take down Starscream at the cost of becoming heavily damaged yourself... what is your reward??? Megatron calls you weak and kills you on the spot when you can't even defend yourself. Saying it's not even worth the resources to repair you and having the gall to insult Barricade, Blackout and Brawl after they're dead. Even though he owes his life to you and them. If you ask me, that one act comes across as EXTREMELY cowardly on Megatron's part. Not that he's a coward in general, since he personally fought Jazz, Optimus, and Starscream but that's neither here nor there. The ending punched me in the gut as a kid and pissed me off something fierce. I hated Megatron for that, and I wanted to go back and kill him in his sleep. I fully believe that if you were given the choice to side with Starscream in the game, he would let you live and even become his right-hand man. He has a set of demands for the Rookie and only turns on him after the Rookie betrays him. It's a story about how paranoia and distrust can ruin and cloud your judgment, leading to disastrous consequences. A clear example of why being a Villain isn't such a great thing after all. For there is no honor amongst thieves.

Honestly I wished the console was more active like this, think of how the amount of more cutscenes we would've had, combined with the DS's storyline.

I really think the best part about tbis game was its story. A tiny handheld game that not many people played, has one of the best Transformers stories I've ever seen. I also LOVE the plot twist with Starscream revealed as the main antagonist. The writers took the most spineless cowardly decepticon, and turned him into one of the most despicable and evil transformers villains ever. I never saw Starscream as main villain material but wow, the writers made him a better villain than, dare I say it, Megatron. Someone PLEASE get the writers of this story to work on more transformers stories. They were the MVPs of this game

I always love when Movies receive games that are better than the movie. Weird.

This game was AWESOME. Damn good to see it get recognition

I’m really glad there’s a video about this game. It truly was one of the very first games I ever owned, I remember opening up my ds for Christmas way back then and I got the autobot copy of the game and my brother got the decepticon copy of the game. I just remember being so flabbergasted on how much there was for me to do in this game and I spent hours upon hours playing it, and even now I still have my copy and I will forever keep it safe.

I saw the thumbnail and IMMEDIATELY recognized this game. My brother and I would play both the Autobot and the Decepticon versions of the game, and we would hammer each other at deathmatch for hours. Those were good times. Really happy to see this video sharing about it!

As a kid I would drive to a specific house on a hill and park pretending like it’s real life. This game was so much fun for me I’m glad it’s getting it’s recognition

This was my very first DS back when I was 8. Still one of my favourites ever

Used to play Decepticons so much I can confidently recite the whole game line for line from memory. Also diacovered a few exploits along the way. During the tutorial where you scan your first vehicle, if you turn the system off immediately after scanning the truck, starting the system back up and completing the mission, you'll be back as a protoform once in freeplay. For the first bumblebee fight, you can use Barricade's vehicle form blaster to slowly whittle his health away so that once you reach each robot mode area, he'll immediately run. Do this fast enough and you can kill him before reaching the scripted cutscene. For the Blackout mission in Qatar, standing at the back of the roof while you scan, you can use the level geometry to shield you from the missiles. When going to attack the army camp as barricade, if you stay in vehicle form at the minimum render distance, you can use the missile attack to bring the base down to 40% at which point tanks spawn out of nowhere. When the two autobots show up after, you can chuck them in the water to instakill them. When reviving Megatron, utilize the Sportster or the Ice Cream Van because their heavy projectiles are OP, and arent so big that it will fuck with the camera angles. With the Jazz fight, if you need to regen health, go up on the rock platform where you can actually farm the rock destructibles by moving in and out of render distance causing them to respawn. For the Optimus fight you can actually get him stuck in a tight alley between two buildings where you can pelt him with heavy projectiles.

I had the Autobots version, I didnt realise that anyone else knew it existed. It honestly needs a Switch remaster.

One thing I like about the Jazz and Optimus fights is that it shows the Autobots are actively doing something off camera, you run into Optimus because he was hunting you down in the background and Jazz is stalling you while the Autobots leave. Also sad that this is the only time in Barricade's history he is depicted like this, the official movie version is Starscream's lackey

I have never played or heard of this game before this video but I am really impressed... I can't believe it has so many fully voice acted cutscenes for a DS game! , also a fully rendered 3D city a wanted system, a fairly complex story especially for a transformers game with multiple different characters. Also online multiplayer?! christ why couldn't GTA Chinatown Wars have voice acting

God, I had so many good times the Transformers DS games based on the first live-action movie. I’m so glad you’re talking about Decepticons, I enjoyed the plot and some of the casting choices are fantastic!

The autobots version was the first game I ever had on DS. I loved that game with all my heart. Never knew anyone else enjoyed it as much as me.

Keith is an abseloute legend no matter what character he voices, he just breaths so much energy into his work.

I would always talk about this transformers game when the DS was brought up in conversation. Was super nice to see a genuine review. Really took me back. Keep up the great work. Your videos bless the ears of everyone.

I still remember this game so fondly. I loved everything about it and thoroughly enjoyed just building my vehicle options. The collect them all style vehicle selection was awesome and at the time; the graphics were pretty good for a game that you could walk around and enjoy while talking with family or friends. You weren’t secluded to your room what a massive setup. I thank you for pumping nostalgia directly into my veins

There’s something tragic about Optimus’ final stand against Megatron. His entire team is dead. The Allspark is in the hands of Starscream. Someone he can’t reasonably pursue. All he has left is this fight. But alas…. It is not a fight he is destined to win.

i remember owning this game as a kid and dumping what must have been hundreds of hours into just driving around in free roam having an absolute blast. i forgot how great the voice acting was. i remember spending an hour on the final boss driving around trying to outlast him because i couldn’t figure out what to do but when i figured it out it made so much sense. a defining game of my childhood, god this was such a great nostalgia trip

I totally forgot about these games. I adored them and they were my favorite DS games. You brought back so many great memories.

Love that the ending sticks true the character of Megatron and makes you ask “maybe siding with Starscream would have been the “good” ending…”

I always thought to myself that the Deception version was superior due to the good writing, glad someone else agrees and made a video on it, I couldn't be more happy. It also seems to follow the trend of original Transformers games being the best in the series, the PS2 Transformers game and this game.

Another pretty cool detail, they mention about not going to the Artic because they could be just chasing ghosts. In the Autobot version, you actually go to the Artic, where as in the Decepticon version you go to Qatar.

I remember begging my parents to buy me this game as a kid, thinking it was for the game boy instead of the ds, broke my heart the second I got home

@piranharoni I am so pleased you liked the story I wrote and the game that the dev team poured so much love and hard work into. This game was aimed at children and I wanted to send a clear message that being a villain means you can’t trust anyone. The player character had to be killed by Megatron otherwise it would have made him a hero in a villains plot. The moral lesson being that when you serve a villain you are an expendable pawn in his scheme, nothing more.

There were so many obscure ds games that were a large part of my childhood hahah

As a kid i could never beat starscream during the final mission. Just found it lying around a couple months ago, picked it up and beat that mission 15 years later.

I am so happy to see someone finally cover this game! I played this years ago not even knowing if it was any good. I saw it was the Deception Ver of the game so I thought it would good and it was absolutely Fantastic! I’ve always wanted a Remake and a continuation of the story of where your character never completely died and would go on the take revenge on Megatron! This was the best DS game. Massive open worlds, Massive for DS and able to be a Decepticon blowing up humans and Autobots alike! Great job on the video! Brilliant stuff!

i absolutley loved these games! thank you for bringing back these amazing memories!

I want to say also that after Hugo Weaving's angry and boring voice acting for Megatron in the movies, it's a real treat to hear Frank Welker play the character the same way he used to in the cartoon

The decepticon's storyline was more compelling than the autobots. It really answers the question: "what does it mean to be a decepticon"

The nostalgia. Thank you so much for making this video! I remember this game! So much fun

This game as well as autobots version were my whole childhood. I was obsessed with these games and the stories really stuck with me. Also The autobot game had an ice level instead of the decepticon desert level

This game was everything I had ever wanted from a Transformers game. It makes me sad that we’ve never gotten another game like this with a bigger budget.

Finally the truth is out. This game is probably the best DS game ever. And I played Mario 64.

This is amazing! Hands down the best transformers titles that came out! I looked at your time and wondered if I should beat it, as I got super close on a practice run a few months ago!

This game was a childhood favorite of mine, thank you for covering it

These were the best transformers games full stop. The open world nature and endless repayability was brilliant

This game was the best, as a kid it totally blew me away that you could scan vehicles in the freeroam to transform into them. I remember getting stuck on the first blackout mission. That timer and constantly getting shot was just too difficult for me.

Transformer Autobots and Decepticons was such a big part of my childhood so its cool to see them getting so recognition.

This game was such a sleeper pick - I remember getting it on my R4 along with the Autobots version when I was 8. I think I basically convinced all my friends to get it and we used to do multiplayer and fight and do car races. I don't know if this has been found but I remember knowing the game so well that I managed to figure out how to glitch past the bridge which separates the first part of Tranquility Lane and the second (late-game) part, allowing me to scan the later-game vehicles, particularly a helicopter (!), whilst being super early game. (edit) and the wierd allspark football game lmao

Nice to see that someone actually gives credit to this game. Always thought the story and voiceacting were crazy good for a DS game

Main Character: Wait, we're all bad guys? Megatron: Always have been.

This was such a good game Just watching this video about the story was shocking how in depth it was such a serious plot with a shocking ending 9/10 still worth a play today and my god the story was amazing

This video was a FANTASTIC watch from front to back, excited to play this for myself for the first time in like, 14 years.

You have no idea how refreshing it is to see someone talking about one of my favorite childhood DS games of all time! I use to play the whole trilogy; the ROTF games were alright, and the DOTM games are a faded memory. However, with strong passion, the real homerunners are these two first titles. One of my favorite glitches to mess around with, I found by pure accident was to become fully playable in cutscenes! By spam tapping the mission briefing icon on the middle-left side of the bottom screen, the game would overlap the brief page ontop of the cutscene. After tabbing it out, you'd have various results-- some allowed you to move freely, while some allowed you to fire weapons at the NPCs currently talking and even kill them. Killing certain NPCs in specific situations would softlock the game. For instance, on the Ratchet vs Blackout fight above the building, you could cheese the fight by shooting him during his dialogue. I use to own an Action Replay chip to unlock all the cars, cheats, and both skydive and G1 starscream. The Armageddon cheat with Psycho cars was hilariously hard to beat both games with! And super jump on high agility characters was fun too. All in all, I hope you get out of these troubling times bro. I'd love to see you make more content about the transformers DS titles! Its funny, sometimes I wager myself in believing that they're better than WFC and FOC. But my back would be against the wall with than objection.

I love that this game is getting more recognition. The Autobots version of was probably my most played game on the DS. I absolutely loved it. I always had the feeling that the Decepticon version was the better one though.

I have no clue why this appeared in my recommended, but I’m glad it did. Such nostalgia, thank you so much for this video

Y'know, if you'd like more TF games like this (especially on DS), I'd actually recommend the two Transformers War For Cybertron games. They're really unique! And the Decepticon version is, again, superb! I'd highly recommend, as I've played both those two games and this one, and I love them to bits!

This was THE first DS game I played when I got it back in 2008 or so. I had so much fun playing this, and glad it's being noticed.

Omg I actually remember playing this. My aunt got me an emulated DS game with 200 games on it from gta to this!!! Man the memories!! Thank you!

Thank you for your video. This brought back many memories of me and my brother playing these games. We each had both versions and played a lot. We would try to complete on roadtrips, on who can beat the game faster and multiplayer was so fun. Im definitely gonna share this vid him as well.

It's always felt so strange to me how the DS Games were some of the best games I've ever played in my life, yet it's like nobody cares. Even a bad remake of these would be some of the most amazing remakes of all time.

Omg, I played this game so much. You just unlocked deep childhood memories of mine. I love this game.

This game was such a fun sandbox for me. Thanks for bringing back memories!!!

This is definitely a hidden gem and since I didn't have youtube when I first got this game, it's nice seeing people play this now. This was my first game ever and it makes me happy that other people like it :)

I have this and the autobot side of the game and let me tell you, no game has given me as many memories as this game did and I still play it today and it never gets old.

This video brought back so many memories of me playing the autobot version, thanks for that

I loved the transformer games on DS I remember trying to find hacks/codes in order to unlock the hidden vehicles. Getting the white bus felt like an accomplishment.

remember replaying this gem so many times as a kid, the characters and storyline stuck with me for so long, especially that ending.