Transformers (360)

[NUN-PUNCHER]

I read that The Transformers was another mediocre movie game. The best part about it was being able to play as the Decepticons.
I'm curious to see what OME6A's take on the game is.

[OME6A]

Reason #571 that I love my wife:

(This dialog occurs at Megatron's big reveal in the game, when the Decepticons go and bust him out)

Her: Who the hell is that?

Me: That's Megatron

Her: What? That doesn't look like Megatron at all.

Me: Yup.

Her: Megatron's big and evil, and has a huge cannon on his arm, not this tin foil spider lookin guy.

Me: Yup.

Her: Jesus, I bet you're pissed about this.

Me: Yup.

Despite being continuously hassled by clanmates last night to come play Graw 2, I spent the night playing this game. All in all I loved it. The graphics are top notch and what really blew me away is the sound effects.

Gameplay is also very enjoyable. It's a good mix of sandbox and missions and bonuses along the way. What's also nice is the game borrows from Dead Rising's mentality that anything is a weapon.

Another great thing is that all of the environments are fully destructable, so you can go on a Most Extreme robot rampage.

To date, this is the greatest Transformers game ever. The action is great, and the transformations are so slick and smooth. Plus you can play as your faction of choice, and take great pride in stomping Prime into the ground as I did.

As just a 360 game it's very fun and enjoyable with tons of achievements, unlockable items and bonus missions to give it a couple months of replay value.

I do have some gripes with it though...

For starters the instruction book is 4 pages long. Literally. There's a lot that you've got to figure out on your own, when you really shouldn't have to.

Another thing that irked me was that this game employs the GTA mini-radar/map. That's all fine and good, but what would've been additionally useful is if they also included a full map. There're a handful of missions where you have limited time to complete multiple objecives that are strewn throughout the map, and you need to do them in a certain order to make the time limit. A full map would've helped tremendously on these missions.

Another thing was that the bosses were a little disappointing and repetitive. They all go through this cycle of "Fight me, I get weak and run off, send in some drones for you to make waste of, and then I come back and we do it all again". Even the Auto-HNIC Optimus Prime was fairly easy.

As a movie game it's good and fun, and enjoyable.

All in all, I give it a 7.5 our of 10.

[NUN-PUNCHER]

Apparantely there's a New Tranformers Character Pack and extra Missions available in the XBL Marketplace that allows you to play the game with Generation 1 Transformers characters and skins for 500 MS Points.
Such as OG Bumblebee , Starscream and Optimus " I Found it on Ebay " Prime.

[OME6A]

Originally Posted by NUN-PUNCHER

Apparantely there's a New Tranformers Character Pack and extra Missions available in the XBL Marketplace that allows you to play the game with Generation 1 Transformers characters and skins for 500 MS Points.
Such as OG Bumblebee , Starscream and Optimus " I Found it on Ebay " Prime.

That's both awesome and awful to hear.

Awesome because it's awesome, and awful because I've already traded it in. Note to developers: DLC needs to start coming within a month of a game's release, past that people have moved on!

So how good is the new stuff? I saw you playing it last night, but I figured it was maybe your nephew on your box again.

[NUN-PUNCHER]

Originally Posted by OME6A

That's both awesome and awful to hear.

Awesome because it's awesome, and awful because I've already traded it in. Note to developers: DLC needs to start coming within a month of a game's release, past that people have moved on!

So how good is the new stuff? I saw you playing it last night, but I figured it was maybe your nephew on your box again.

Yeah.Talk about a day late and a dollar short. I have a feeling the tardiness of the pack is why it's not being pushed.
As far as if it's good IDK , Nephew's abandoned game , Roomie Download. I gave him my blessing and walked away. I never liked the game at all and had I not been under the influence of Spirits, I would've gave a stern "No"

[Negative Creep]

Originally Posted by OME6A

Note to developers: DLC needs to start coming within a month of a game's release, past that people have moved on!

+1 FTW!

I completely understand what you're trying to say here... I think that developers should definitely push DLC sooner than most of them currently do.

The developers of Rock Star and GH3 seem to be on board with our thoughts, though... so I guess there is hope.