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3.5; Smashing stuff has never been more fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

To be honest, I was more into the CG-animated TV series "Beast Wars" rather than the original show. Of course Optimus Prime is cool and I even had a Starscream action figure but for some reason, Beast Wars had more influence growing up. But still, the idea of it was always cool and with the upcoming Transformers movie gaining heavy buzz, of course a game's got to come up. While this easily eclipses the Beast Wars game from the Playstation, what could've been is just all the more disappointing.

Story: Aww do I have to? It's so easy! Autobots and Decepticons are looking for something called the "AllSpark" and it happens to be on Earth. So guess who's hosting one of the biggest battles ever? Yep, we are and either controlling one side or the other, you got all hell to unleash.

Graphics: What makes the characters stand out is the animation and the designs. Mock the more rigged look, they always felt more plausible rather than in the old show where it had more of a fantasy element. And transforming into a car is probably the coolest thing. While the level designs are kind of bland if at least detailed, it's the characters and the interactive parts that stand out.

Sound/Music: Normally these tie-ins always have repetitive music where the theme song is done in so many different ways. Here, while lacking identifiable themes, the sound mix is awesome with everything exploding to the big epic music, this is one to use with your new sound system.

Gameplay: Here's where the game dips. It's very much mission-based a la GTA and these aren't hard in the sense you're underpowered but rather you're just so slow. It's one of those kind of games where you really have to hit your marks on the road because one snag can cost you the whole mission. Frustration is largely due in part to game design and how things are set up, rather than you just being a bad player.

Vehicle modes are just like GTA except you got 2 weapons. Robot mode is quite disappointing outside of the destruction you can bring. Wave the Wii-mote sideways to punch and vertically to grab things such as cars to launch. However in order to throw or fight a Decepticon you have to lock-on, meaning pressing Z as you point at what you want to fight. Couple that with your Wii-mote controlling the camera so you can easily fly all over the place unless you have a steady hand and know where you're aiming. However, it's all in fun and there's a huge coolness factor in being a transformer demolishing stuff.

It may be frustrating but you gotta admit it's dumb fun, probably just like the movie will be. So if you got time to spare or a kid, it's good for a try, maybe not a full buy though.

Traveller's Tales must be stopped, no matter the cost.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 19
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Authors note: My three star review was based on first impression, after completing a large portion of the game I would like to be able to change my review to two stars, but their system will not allow it.

When I saw the first released footage of this game my jaw dropped. The visuals looked incredible; ultimately the final product lived up to that hype in the graphics department, but fell short everywhere else. The problem is, once you get past the visuals and the overall feel the game creates of being a giant robot able to Transform. Once you get past that the entertainment value drops quickly and then, well then the game deludes into a repetitive nightmare that will haunt gamers. When it's good, it's ok. When it's bad, it's a bore and it's a lot of repetition that often requires luck and not skill to complete.

As with so many movie titles before it Transformers is throw away big screen to game adaptation. The problem is with movie games like Chronicles of Riddick the bar has been set a lot higher. With this game once the "wow" factors wears off you get past the very entertaining aspect of: running, climbing, bashing, transforming (worth two or three hours of bliss) once you get past all that there is a very medicore, linear game that is often redundant and often more annoying that challenging. While there is no difficulty selection, I found the game to be about normal. It's not that it was too difficult in spots, it's that the challenging points were not overall very fun. In fact when there is no skill or puzel to solve (when you're ability to complete a mission is based 50% of luck) it's a very, very unpleasant gaming experience.

When you're a fan of specific characters and you're starved for a good TF game you have a choice to make. You make decide to play the game and just enjoy it with "fan blinders" and toss it up to another half-add movie game. Or you can be critical and compare it to the best games of its type around. If you go the later path, you will absolutely HATE this game. Transformers: The Game is essentially a third-person shooter (e.g. God of War) with absolutely zero: puzzle elements, weapon upgrades or compelling combos. It's missions not only lack depth, they lack any coherent store line. One would almost pass it off as another boring piece of movie tie-in "flare" aimed at kids, except most intelligent kids won't have the attention span to keep retrying the dual missions this presents.

For the Transformer fan determined to make it through the game (sense who knows when we'll get another) this will often be a excruciating journey, void of fun, void of anything you remember about the characters as a kid. You may be thinking "this guy probably hates everything" and that's not true. I've submitted a review of the novelization of the upcoming movie which this game is very loosely based on and the book did make me feel 8 years old again, the movie is going to be incredible. But this game will, in some ways rob you of your childhood memories (yes, it is that bad). As tempting as it may be to touch this title, I say stay far away from it.

Regarding the review title. Well, one group of individuals is responsible for this mess of a game (IGN.com called it "a mess" to great amusement, they are spot on). That group is an independant game shop in the UK called Traveller's Tales. They were the hired gun to create this game and they appear to be so ashamed of it they do not even list it on their official website (Google it).

How many poor movie games do we have to play before gamers say ENOUGH. Game publishers like to put as little money as possible into these type of games, because their assumption is that the movie brand will sell the game without the game needing to hold any weight.

If you're tired of spending sixty dollars on a game only to get it home to find a half-baked smoking pile of.... (you get the idea). If you're sick of it, now is the time to act. We have a major blockbuster film here (from all early reviews a very very good action movie) and another very lackluster game trying to pushed at us.

If you have purchased the Traveller's Tales version of the game (this includes the: Wii, PS3, PS2, XBox 360 and PC versions) and feel the same as I do, let's do something about it! Let's boycott Traveller's Tales by refusing to buy their upcoming Lego's Batman title. No doubt the Batman title will be a much better game than Transformers as Traveller's Tales has had it in development a bit longer and it's more along the lines of what they traditionally do. But we can't let them purposely put out a piece of garbage like Transformers: The Game and then expect us to forget about it and buy their other great titles.

The bottom line is, when you load the game up you're going to love it at first, when you realize how much more it could have been and take the fan blinders off you'll be left disappointed, possibly angry.

Coulda been better!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun, and I really like that you get to transform whenever you want, however the camera when you are a robot is controlled by where you are pointing the Wii remote and is automatically behind the car when you are a car. So every time I switch over to the robot, to fight, the camera goes all the way to the ground and I'm looking up at Bumblebee's butt and then I get stomped by the Decepticon I'm trying to fight. Then its really hard to get the camera in the right place and keep it there. This game could have been a lot better if they had made the camera be automatically behind you when your're a robot. I like that you can pick up everything and anything and chuck it around, very cool!

Disapointing as the movie upon which it's based

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: July 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game and played as both an autobot and a decepticon for a mission or two. This was enough to occupy my time for roughly 20 minutes. By then, I was already completely bored with the game. For a game based on a property with such an innate cool factor, this game is excruciatingly dull. It really has little to hold one's interest for more than a couple of minutes max. While playing, I just couldn't seem to shake the "been there done that" vibe which seemed to permeate every aspect of the game. I also found myself constantly fighting with the psychotic in-game camera. The controls were likewise clunky and pointing at enemies with the Wii remote didn't seem to work half of the time. During a large part of the action, I couldn't even see where I was going or who I was supposed to be fighting because my big lumbering oaf of a character was always in the way. Just like the movie upon which its based, this could've been something great. Instead, it fails in almost every way.

Very Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game as promise. I was a fan of the tv show and this looked like it might be a fan's dream come true. The intro was very cool, and then the game started.

The game looks pretty decent, and it's pretty cool the way you can change forms at will. But that's about where it stops. The camera angle is never where you want it and it's hard to control. All of the forms I played were way underpowered. On the missions if you are off your mark even a little bit you might was well abandon and start over because you will fail. The controls are not smooth. It really seems like they rushed this out 1/2 way done.

It's very disappointing. I have tried multiple times and it's just not fun after a very short amount of time. In checking the net I've discovered that I'm not alone in my frusteration. I managed to get through several of the small campaigns on the autobot and decepticon sides.

I have been a console and on-line gamer for over 2 decades. My first console was an Atari...before the 2600. There were no cartrages, it had 6 games loaded on it and the controler was built into the console. I don't think I have ever been this disappointed in a game. I gave this game to a friend because he was going to buy it. He says it's not worth it even free.

Save your money, don't even bother renting it.

Too difficult to play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Many people like Wii because it is easy to play.
This game is too difficult to control. I personally cannot enjoy this title.
Maybe some power users like it; but I don't.

wow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

do not buy this ...the controls are so rediculous and its starts way too damm fast...

Very good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This one of the best games I've had besides Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2. In this game you can be the autobots or decepticons whoever! In campaign you can convert from robot to car and viceversa and it's funny because you can do it whenever you want. Instead in some games you can do it only in specific "missions"; but the game is really good and funny.(you can destroy every single thing you want)!

Great present!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game as a Christmas gift for my son and since it was refurbished, my husband played it to make sure it worked correctly. After 30 min's I had to convince him it was fine, he was having a hard time turning it off. I know come Christmas morning what will be happening at my house. LOL... It looked pretty fun so I might give it a spin too..

They BADLY TRANSFORMED

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game graphic is good compared to other Wii games. I like the fighting scenes even though they're short. It might be because I'm not a hard cored gamer. However, the frustrating control makes this game boring after 2 missions. For example, while I was in a car form, I could not reverse! I had to transform into the robot to go backward. While fighting, a lot of times I moved the Wii remote as instructed by the manual but I got no response!

After playing it for 45 minutes, I gave up. I saved $27 dollars by renting it.

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