Transformers: The Game is very much the archetypal
movie-licensed game. It's got all the hallmark problems of the genre, including
short length, overly simplistic mechanics, a barely-there story, and a bit of a
sloppy feel. It is simply an excuse for fans of the upcoming live action film
(and maybe even some fans of the old cartoons who, admittedly, will take pretty
much anything they can get at this point) to run around, awkwardly beating up
Autobots or Decepticons in various semidestructible environments. If that's all
you want out of the game, then Transformers might provide you a few mild hours
of entertainment. If you were hoping for something more, Transformers will
probably just disappoint you.
The basic premise of the game is the same as the film's. The
classic Transformers battle between good robots and evil robots has spilled
over to planet Earth as the two warring sides search frantically for an
artifact known as the AllSpark. The AllSpark is essentially the life force for
all Transformers, which explains why they'd want to get it back. Sam Witwicky
(voiced with appropriate "gee whiz!"-ness by Shia LaBeouf) is an
average teenager who happens to hold the key to finding the AllSpark. From
there, it's a race for both sides to find Sam and get the AllSpark. There might
be more to the movie's plot than what is presented here, and you should really
hope there is, because otherwise, we're all in for one exceedingly boring film.
With the exception of a few bouts of basic dialogue between Sam and the various
Transformers (including veteran TV series voice actors Peter Cullen and Frank
Welker reprising their roles as Optimus Prime and Megatron with about as much
enthusiasm as you could hope for), there's almost no story to drive the game
forward. In some respects that's not surprising, simply because with this
method, almost none of the film is spoiled for you.
System Requirements:
Pentium 4 2 GHz,
1 GB RAM,
graphic card 64 MB (GeForce 4 or better),
4 GB HDD,
Windows XP/Vista.
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