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it is a good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is a good game if you have a good high def tv. and its even better if you have a great surround sound I have 7.1 surround sound and the audio is like no other game is fun the levels are short but you will have fun destroying every thing

Worth it if you are a Transformers fan... A little bit like Grand Theft Auto III

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Here's are the positives:

- controls relatively easy to learn

- your weapons and health automatically recharge over time

- you can REALLY and TRULY destroy just about anything in the game (my favorite so far: wiping out Decepticons by swinging a ginormous swordfish!)

- think of this game as a really good Mech game (compared to what else is out there), with strong similarities to Grand Theft Auto III's go-anywhere-and-blast-anyone gameplay, including the driving-around-the-city part. My advice is to screw off on doing the missions (going where they tell you), and instead just drive / fly around crashing into cars and buses and launching missles at the helicopters, etc. GREAT button-mashing fun (a la what I would always do late at night on GTA).

Here are the negatives:

- no multi-player

- limited number of Transformers (I want old ones!!)

- the graphics are decent, but not as shiny-beautiful as other games (like Heavenly Sword, etc.). Still, they are not bad...

- some people have said that the game is relatively short... well, I guess that depends on whether you play games for 8 hours a day, or more like 1 hour a day. I think it's a fine length, and I hope for a sequel with the OLD Transformer vehicles!!

- some people have complained that when using HDMI, they aren't getting any audio. My advice: buy a digital audio cable and run it through your receiver. Hopefully this will help. (works fine with my Dolby Digital).

Overall, at the very least, give this a rental, and just spend half-an-hour driving around blasting things before you just this game. You will see that fun factor.

Don't get the PS3 version

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Don't get the PS3 version. It has sound issues. Every time you hear a sound, it is followed by a low hissing buz. It gets very old very quick. I have now returned the game twice and still the same thing happens. I checked on-line, and alot of other people are having the same problem. I run my PS3 through HDMI and see no reason why I should have to change that. I paid good money for this game, and still it doesn't work correctly. I eventually got the 360 version, and guess what. No problem. I am a die hard PS3 fan and felt like a sell out getting the x-box version, but what the hell? It should work, with zero problems. Oh by the way. The game is pretty awsome (that is , on the 360). If you have it. I hope you don't have sound issues. And I almost guarantee that the people out there who don't have any problems with this version, either have their system running through non-HDMI or have some over priced piece of high tech equiptment. But guess what. Not everybody is going to dish out thousands of dollars for an ampliphier or some stereo. This system costs $[...] and should work in the damn rain if it had to.

What else could you ask for

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You can choose from a slew of Transformers, Autobots or Decepticons! You can protect or destroy, and Transform at will. When it come to a Transformer game this is the best yet. Graphics are amazing in HDTV and not a difficult game to play. I have yet to determine the depth of the game but so far its a blast being able to destroy just about everything on the screen, unlike other games where you could only brek a box or something. My only wish is that I wish it was based more on the original G1 characters than the new movie ones. Check it out you won't be disappointed!!

not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

After seeing the movie I thought the game could have been better... Bad graphics worse sound.. what else can I say... like a PS-one game...

Diehard fan disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a longtime fan of the series. That being said I have to say this is one of the worst games I have played for the ps3. For example if you cause to much damage you can be disqualified from the game and have to start over at the last checkpoint. I understand you are the autobots and do not want to cause harm. However if you even throw an object at a decepticon and miss. It takes out a building and you are done. The makers took alot of what was fun in transformers and did the exact opposite. I was very disappointed.

Sound Problems with HDMI

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We purchased our first PS3 Transformers game from GameStop. There was no sound. Graphics were pretty good and game was playable but not enjoyable due to no sound. We took it back and exchanged for second PS3 Transformers, thinking we just had a bad disk. Same problem. All other PS3 games, including Activision games and Blue Ray Disk DVDs all worked fine - no problem. Called Activision. Got their Customer No-Service Department. They did everything they could to deny responsibility. They tried to blame it on my HDMI cable (I have a premium brand), then my Panasonic plasma HDTV! I asked them "What good is a game if I have to re-wire the audio on my PS3 console every time I want to play this one game?" Rude customer service agent!! They even had the nerve to send me an email stating that my problem was "solved"!!! DON'T BUY THIS GAME if you use HDMI with HDTV!!!!!

One of the better movie to game crossovers....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We all know the stigmas placed on games based on film franchises......many are well deserved. However, I do think this particular game shakes alot of that.....

First off, you play in an open enviorment which has easy to identify mission "markers" to move the story along. As others have said, you can choose to be an autobot or decepticon, I choose decepticon, because I wanted to destroy an enviorment that was touted a fully destructible....was it? Yes, it was. Does it look good....yes. How was the gameplay? Well, there's just something about cruising along in the form of a PaveLow chopper and at will converting to a 40 ft bipedal mechanical menace......very cool. In terms of graphics, on the PS3, it's solid. Won't completely blow you away, won't disappoint either. The weapons on the machines themselves can be used in robot of vehicle form, and the character animations on the transfomers themselves are fluid, not clunky, which is the same as in the new film, I hear. And transforming is a blast....havent gotten sick of it yet. If you looking for a solid game, a little GTA style, open enviorments, blowing the hell out of anything and everything you see(and some things you don't see) then this is definitely a game you might want to check out, even as a weekend rental. I bought it simply because there are a good amout of unlockables etc, also the levels are big enough to roam around in and do alittle exploring, or better yet, just, well, destroy...

it sucks to say this...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

But this game sucks.

I'm a diehard transformer fan and a PS3 fan as well, but i would hate to lie and say this game was anywhere close to good because it's so close to being the most awful and annoying game on the PS3-EVER!!

- The missions are boring, simple and not planned very well. (This game was definately rushed, because it had alot of potential.

- I thought i was the only one having sound problems, but after reading other peoples reviews it seems like i'm not alone.

- The controls suck! especially when you're driving. Talk about understeer and then a sudden oversteer makes the mission absolutely annoying. I dont expect it to be a grand turismo, but the programmers making this game were very confused on wether they wanted the driving to feel simulated or arcade-like...

- Trying to drive, and trying to lock onto the enemy is frustrating as hell.

- Transforming is cool, but it gets old when everything is so damn frustrating.

- A.I is horrible. Talk about dumb enemy robots!

Activision, from my point of view, makes decent games. Not great games but decent. But this one is a total failure in my book.

I'm glad i rented it, and i'm hoping you do too before buying it!

A Must Have for Transformers Fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun game. It's not very complicated, but there' enough for Transformers fans to keep you entertained for a while. As a comparison, this game is very similar to Simpson's Hit & Run. There are plenty of side missions and things to do that provide a good change of pace.

The game does come up a bit short in a few areas. The camera never seems to be pointing where it needs to be. The Bonus material is weak (especially the photo gallery). The instruction manual is bad and a lot of things are left up to you to figure out.

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