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Grows boring too quickly

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 24 / 26
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

As with most movie based video game tie-in's and licensed games, Transformers looks great at first but quickly degenerates into monotony. Based on the mega budget, live action film adaptation directed by Michael Bay and featuring Hasbro's long running line of toys, Transformers allows you to play as either the heroic Autobots or the evil Decepticons, as the civil war between the two giant robotic races comes to Earth. The first thing you'll notice is that the Transformers themselves are very well detailed and animated, which helps take away from noticing how bland the backgrounds and areas are. For a late in life PS2 game, the game features some great robot animations that make it worth checking out alone for longtime Transformers fans. After that though, things kind of go downhill. Even if you play both the Autobot and Decepticon modes, you'll find the game as a whole is incredibly short. Not to mention that when playing as one of the Transformers that can transform into a car, driving controls are quite sticky. The biggest flaw of Transformers though comes from the fact that the overall game just gets boring way too quickly for it's own good. The missions are basically all the same thing, and even though the Decepticons have a mission that involves just blowing stuff up, it's not enough to save the game from movie tie-in mediocrity. Combine this with the schizoid camera angles and you get the overall picture. Negatives aside, Transformers does offer some positives. For starters, there is some great voice acting to be heard thanks to featuring the voices of the original cartoon's Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen, who also voices Prime in the film) and Megatron (Frank Welker, replaced by Hugo Weaving for the film), along with the film's star Shia LaBeouf as well. All in all, if you are a Transformers fan, young or old, the Transformers game is worth checking out, but it goes without saying not to expect anything remotely great out of it.

great so far

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: June 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

just got it & played the 1st level.Fun & cool you can destroy everything.Just a little on the hard side & save points are far apart.

DO NOT BUY THIS TRANSFORMERS GAME!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 18
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Transformers: the Movie for PS2 is a rushed, broken, and uneven game. The game characters are difficult to control in both car and robot modes.
In some levels there really is no way to win until luck kicks in and you advance in the game. Please don't take my word 4 it. Check out the video game review web-sites and see what low ratings this game is pulling down.
Please use your $$$$$ to buy the Transformers game by Atari for the PS2 that came out in 2004. It is a much better game than this one. If you must buy this game wait until the price goes below twenty dollers or cheaper... it really is that bad.

Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics for the game are wonderful. The environments are completely destructible. The transformations from robots to vehicles are everything a fanboy could hope for. Walking around as a decepticon, blasting everything away in the freeplay mode is a lot of fun. Still, much of the fun comes from your own creation and not from the gameplay.

That said, the gameplay is awful. If you hate timed missions, skip the Autobot section: their missions are essentially go here and do this in x amount of time. Worse still, the driving controls are sluggish and cause frequent mission screwups. The camera is also frustrating. At least half of the hits I landed on the enemies were from blind flailing. Enemies are repetitive for both factions. One thing that really annoyed me was that the game provides characters with awesome firepower, yet at least 90% of the enemies have shields that render the firepower useless. The game also does not allow you to choose between robots.

I really wish they would have spent more time with the game. The level design and look of the characters is done very well. The characters just need a better camera, better controls, and more to do than they've been given here. I hope the makers of the game do another one because I'd be really interested to play one that they did well and without the pressure of a movie release date or tie-in.

Rent this to get it over with. Sigh in frustration. And then go and track down the earlier Atari Transformers game instead.

Very disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: July 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is very shallow, go there kill 4 mobs, go here kill another 3 mobs, than a harder mob, then another mob and so on.
you playied one level - you playied them all... game doesnt change, and gets awsomlly borring after about 20 minutes.
very unconvenient and undisciplined controls in Robot mode and even wors in car mode (the planes are fine though...)
Weapons are useally useless against other robots past the first chapter.
All the missions and the game in general are really repetitive.

Nice-looking, but not enough to do

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: July 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are pretty awesome, but there's not much game here. It's essentially a button-smasher with next-to-no strategy and driving moments that handles pretty poorly.

That you can choose between factions but not robots is equally sad, and "wanderlust" isn't what gamers mean when they say they like "free roaming" games.

Not-so-nice try.

I think they need to transform this into a better game....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off: I really wanted to like this game. I loved the movie and thought it was great. The graphics are impressive and look very true to the movie. Unfortunately, thats where the good things stop. Every level is the same; you kill a group or robots, usually before they get to something. The design of the level is poor and on many I had to find what way the designers wanted me to beat it or else it was impossible to complete. For a movie game, this sure didn't follow the movie well. Some parts were completely different from the real thing and some parts didn't even make sense. There were complete scenes and parts of day cut out where between missions you essentially jump to the next mission without any explanation on where the time went. Transitions? None here. I like new game systems but unfortunately the trend seems to be put all the developers to graphics and none towards game play. I'd take a game that makes sense, has plot, and is easy to control over some graphical puppet show any day.

If you liked Spidy, You'll like Transformers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Since both are from activision, you can't ask too much of a game, but it has the same feeling as playing spiderman, only you don't have to make and repeat stupid tasks. Vehicle mode is like ALL vehicle games, nasty and supersensible control, like Bond from EA imposible to control the car.
If you are not a gamer and don't play games for a living, you'll find it entertaining. Graphic are better than at least Spidey 2, Game it gets boring if you are seating for 5 hours playing, not if you play a mission or 2 daily. I gave it 4 stars, just because its an activision game, you know you can get something better from EA or Konami.

the best tranformers game ive playd

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game is the best game that ive playd it has a lot of good fechers in it the only way to win this game is you have to know the decpicons weeknes i can give you some tips for the game thedicepticons have a different way of taking each one down you have to find a way for your self to beat the decpicons to move to the next chapter i rented this game i have to say the game was hard at first but i found a way to play the game all the way thru and it was asome i saw the movie it was also asome i cant wait for the movie to come out on dvd

Game is terrible but the movie's great

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game for my 7 year old son. Thank goodness we didn't waste $40.00. We were only able to get through one or two missons/levels. The map on the right hand side of the screen that you use to find out where you are and the bad guys/robots are is too difficult for my son to understand. The car that you drive is too darn hard to drive. It's impossible to drive straight, steer, and stop because of the sensitivity of the controls. You also have time limits that you have to meet or the mission fails. Don't buy the game but do see the movie. The movie's great but the game is terrible.

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