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Eh...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game came with the Xbox 360 my wife bought for me on ebay so I thought I'd give it a try. While it is fun driving through the streets and then transforming into a giant robot, the missions in this game are mind numbingly dumb and frustrating. Guess my biggest complaint is when you're fighting the bosses, you have a very small green area that you have to fight in. Get outside the area for a few seconds, and you're going to have to repeat the mission. It's so irritating that the bosses don't actually have to beat you, they just have to engage you or keep you from getting back inside the green area. I just don't understand why the designers wouldn't allow you the entire city (or at least a larger piece of real estate) to fight. Worse than that is that missions and boss fights are so repetitive and waayyyy to long. Fight the boss. Boss flies/drives away. Fight boss' minions. Boss comes back full health. Fight boss. Boss flies/drives away. Fight minions. Boss comes back full health. Repeat process. Oh, and get stopped during one of these encounters and its back to square one.

Another irritating point is the inability to use your guns. Sure you have them, but they do no damage on your opponents because they'll just throw up an energy shield and block you. Course the shield is far from perfect because while bullets and high explosives do little to penetrate it, a thrown tree or light post will go right through. Often times, you can't even do damage on a boss until you can hit him with some sort of object (car, tree, pole, etc...), and good luck with that because the targeting controls are worse than horrible.

Lastly, I honestly cannot stand the A.I. in the game. People walk around you like you weren't even there or just run hysterically directly into you. When you fight Megatron as Optimus Prime, you're constantly having to dodge people and cars who are for whatever reason oblivious to the fact that two 30 foot robots are laying smack down on each other in the middle of the city and just go about their business. You'd think dad would have the common sense not to drive the family mini-van in the middle of that but unfortunately, that's not the case here. If that wasn't bad enough, when you play as an autobot, there are cop cars constantly harrassing you. Apparently, local law enforcement has sided with the Decepticons because they only shoot at you and not them. I was fighting as Jazz vs. Starscream and Blackout and trying to get away to earn more health when I was blind sided by two cop cars and pinned in between a non-existent wall allowing both Blackout and Starscream to beat the crap out of my stupid non-responsive robot.

Overall, this game had so much potential but fell flat on its face with poor game design and an awful A.I. Can't tell you how many times playing this game I've wanted to throw my controller at the screen. If you have to play it, you're much better off renting.

Not like the movie

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The movie is a 5 stars hands down with two thumbs up... no question bout it.
The game has potential it's true, cool graphics, but the cut scenes look like made to get over with fast and even silly comparing the sequence and concept to the movie... and the missions, very repetitive and annoying sometimes... Big trans fan trust me.. but they could've made it perfect instead of almost.

Fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is a fun game for both my boys. It would have been nice if it were two players though. But they do love the game.

Boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun once you start, but slowly fades away. The missions's are repetative "destroy the other bot's". You may also have to accomplish up to 5 or more tasks to complete these missions without being able to save. Games based on movies already suck and this just adds to the dissapointment.

Thumbs UP!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game was for my children and they love it! Transformers is their favorite movie and the game has renewed their love for the genre.

EXCELLENT AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: October 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is so awesome you can't get your eyes off of the game!!!!!you get to choose between good or bad.you have to get this AWESOME game!!!!!!!!i can't be any more specific about how AWESOME this game is!!!!!!!!!!I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!I know "YOU'LL"like it ,too!

Pretty good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is no Halo but if your a transformers fan or a fan of these games I would play it, some of the action sequences are pretty challenging and fun and the graphics are gorgeous. Good sound and CGI animation as well.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME PLAYING THIS JUNK!!! The movie was great but this game is TRASH!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I wanted Transformers the video game to be as good as the movie but I was wrong. There is nothing good about Transformers the video game. The graphics would be considered good if they were on the PS1 and there's not a lot to do with your Transformer. All you do is punch and shoot. Your not allowed to shoot people only buildings and vehicles. Hardly any people talk through the game. The cutscenes are short and boring so you won't miss anything if you skip the scenes. I think it's true what they say. Most video games based on movies are TRASH! The only good games based on movies are Spider-man 1,2,and 3. Don't buy this game.Don't even rent it just get Spider-man 3.

not really more than meets the eye...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is okay. That pretty much sums it up. It's definitely not more than meets the eye. Sure, it has fantastic graphics, and just about everything in the environments can be picked up, blown up, or smashed, but the gameplay is VERY repetetive, and the controls are often very jumpy. The Decepticons have some of the cooler robots, but they also get a bit repetetive. It's definitely fun to play for a short while, but not over extended periods of time. Rent this one and save your money for the MUCH more worthwhile Transformers film.

A wasted effort

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There are very few games based on movies that end up very good. Often times all you can hope for is a nice average game, Transformers is unfortunately not even an average game. I see no point to going into a great detail about all the high and low points of this game, other than the fact that the high point list would be pretty short. This game was awful, the controls, story, mission, everything. The only neat thing is changing back and forth from a vehicle to a giant robot, and that isn't enough to carry a game. The characters aren't fluid and everything seems forces. If you must run around as a robot and destroy things there are better games to do it in. Pass this one up.

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