If you haven't heard, a small independent movie sequel is being released this week called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Okay, we jest: Enough money was spent on the movie's production to send a gaggle of CEOs into the sunset of life with golden parachutes. Of course, with nearly every big budget film, comes a hurriedly put-together video game that will probably make you and your wallet cry. (In the case of the first Transformers, they were robot tears.)

Alas, Shia LeBeouf has championed the dreams of nerds everywhere for a great movie tie-in game and has promised that the game based on the upcoming film will not suck Allspark ass. Below, he amuses us with words about being a video game nerd, possessing super powers, and "doing it all the time" with Megan. Playing Madden, that is.

MAXIM: How did you get involved with the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game?
SHIA LABEOUF: I'm a video game fan and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character. I saw the first game and I was kind of disappointed. The whole reason I got into it was because I could move myself around—you know, play with myself, literally. [Laughs]

But, really, I have a problem with movie games. A lot of people say, "Oh, this is a fucking movie game—who cares?" I wanted this game to prove them wrong. You usually don't get the cast to come in and re-do some of the dialogue and storylines. They also changed some things around: Every second matters, there are goals and objectives, just more variety. But, I'm still not, you know—I'm a gamer for sure, but this doesn't necessarily fall into my type of games. I'm into different type of games completely.

Which ones?
I guess it's not right for me to promote another game when I'm trying to promote this game, but I like strategy games like Civilization.

You recently said that you were ashamed of how many games you have. Can you tell us how many?
I don't really know the number. It's somewhere in the multiple thousands.

They must just send you boxes and boxes of games, right?
No, I buy my games. Tyrese gets free games and I don't.

THE BATTLE OF THE BEAUTIES

Olivia Wilde is No. 1 on this year's Hot 100, Megan Fox at No. 2. What do you have to say about that? Shia: Fucking ridiculous! You can't ask me that question, I'm biased. I'm sure Olivia's a really sweet girl but... Although Megan did say she wanted to strangle an ox for how beautiful Olivia was... It's flattery, how ever way you chop it up. They're both gorgeous.

We just played the new Transformers game and it seems Mikaela Banes (Megan Fox) never says "Please."
Ahh, that's not cool. You need a "Please."

Your character is more polite...
Yeah, you like Sam Witwicky more. I'd like it if you could write that somewhere in the article, that you like Sam more, he's more polite. How about, "Overall, he's just a more enjoyable presence." [Laughs]

Done and done. If you could have special powers from a game in real life, which would you have? Think Street Fighter...
A really cool, spinning badass kick. One that that was only my own, nobody else could even attempt it. Hey, you: Don't try to do that spinning kick, you know that's not yours!

Have you and Megan battled each other in a video game?
Oh, yeah, we do it all the time. We play Madden—I'm really good, but she's a good sport. She still plays and she's into it.

What percentage of games do you win against her?
It's a bad percentage, really bad. [Laughs]

What have you enjoyed the most about doing the second movie?
It's bigger, faster, and stronger. If the first one was massive, this is gargantuan. It's up there with some of the biggest movies—it might be the biggest film ever made.

Who are your favorite Transformers in the new one?
The Devastator is the most outrageous Transformer, just the mass destruction that thing can create is a fucking really insane thought. Six or seven robots on top of each other, all of those attributes in one really wild creature.



At our Hot 100 party, Michael Bay mentioned that he had written the script so that there wasn't necessarily a need for another movie.
Yeah, that's right. We could, but it's not necessary. I think that this movie is going to be very hard to top, it may be even impossible to make a movie that hits harder than this does.