Played through and love th combat system! Most voices were awesome for they guys whose voice actors EXCEPT THUNDERCRACKER. They need a new VA for him that can go deep and gruff.

 

P.S. The camera was pretty standard for this kind of game, and fully controllable with the right stick, so didn't bug me personally.

 

Find a Redbox and rent the game for a few days. You'll pay $6 and be satisfied.

Pros
On the PS4 the game looks great and is incredibly smooth
The characters other than Starscream sound great
Some pretty epic boss fights
Sound and music is perfect
You get to play as Prime and he is pretty badass
For the most part the game is very fun

Cons
Camera is terrible
Everything other than the boss fights is repetitive and boring
Platforming sections are bad
Non intuitive weapon forging
Grimlock is not worth playing due to his incredibly slow dino mode
Easy difficulty turns the game into a joke, medium is at times too hard, hard is just punishment

Unless you really want to play the game over and over, mastering every combo, you have about two days worth of gaming. Not worth $50. I was hoping that my son could play the game, but past the first few levels it was too hard. The problem is the dodge mechanic you must master. You need to listen for the audio cue and wait a split second and then hit the button. He would hear the sound and hit the dodge button, which was too early and he'd get hit. Later in the game it gets harder and harder to dodge enemy attacks.

The game really is a boss battle extravaganza. The filler in between each set piece isn't very much of a game. Some of the boss battles at the end are frickin crazy. You think you've won and damn they hit you with a near impossible task. The good news is that many of the hard boss battles have stages you can clear and if you die you get to restart halfway through the battle.

The end battle is near impossible until you figure out a few tricks. Essentially you can string together an endless combo and it then becomes too easy. The game never tells you about the powerup combos and parry moves you have to buy with credits. You might also waste a lot of time before you figure out the point of weapon forging. You can waste a few hours trying to make more powerful weapons and playing the terrible split second timing Wheeljack tech game.

After completing the game they give you weapons that make you want to play again just to kick some ass with the Star Saber. Sadly, unless you really love doing the same thing over and over again, one playthrough will probably satisfy.

The ending of the game isn't very good. However they leave you with a pretty awesome Marvel movie like teaser if you are a Transformers fan. What was a G1 game all of a sudden turns IDW.

The game is a solid 6/10

Being a Transformer fan knocks it up to a 7 just for nostalgia.

 

Doesn't feel like a TF game but it's still fun. Bee whooping Megatron's ass,cmon  

A sweet arcadey diversion but not the TF game i was lookin for. You can focus\ dodge\shoot through the whole thing.

 

I dig it!!!....totally felt like I was 5 again...I had the same grin ear to ear as I did back then every time I rushed home, negated my school work for a half hour, sat down and watched transformers.

 

I absolutely adore this game and am many replays through it now.

But yeah I think selling it for 50 was a big mistake on activisions part, its way more of a really really nice 35ish dollar game. Short and relatively simple and if you don't want to replay it your won't get all that much out of it.

It'll go on sale soon enough I'm sure, certainly on steam in december anyway and I recommend everyone check it out then. Really really fun it is and visually gorgeous but man do I wish it was just bigger and had so much more content. Would be amazing.

 

How big a difference is there in the graphics between next-gen and prior-gen consoles? I have a 360 and a PS3, not going to get a PS4 or XBone for one game.  

 

I think calling this game a cash in is offensive.
I can understand people that don't like the game, but how is it just a cash in? Platinum Games is a premiere, respected developer. Brawlers are currently at a low in popularity. They went out of their way to get the G1 feel including utilizing voice actors we haven't heard voicing these characters in decades.
They went out of their way to include references from Transformers lore in general; there's stuff in there from Prime and IDW!
There's homages to Attack on Titan, Gurren Lagann and other anime.
There's too much love here for this to be a cash in.
If you don't like it, fine. But don't label it something it's not.

Very little difference.
The game is not really pushing the hardware graphically.

 

That's a bad thing? Go rot your brain with Bayformers then...

 

Depends on the game, some of the PS4, XBone games have near photorealistic and movie like graphics and lighting effects. I have the PS4 version of devastation, with a cell shaded game like this the graphics between the last gen consoles and the current are going to be slim to none.

 

I'm pretty sure he meant that in a a good way. Calm your geewunner self.

 

Right. The camera is an absolute mess. Especially during boss fights and chase sequences.

The camera was one of the biggest complaints in the Kotaku review.

 

Quality over quantity

Most complaints mention how short it is. It took me just over 6 hrs to complete. I did a lot of the sidequests, though skipped maybe half of them. In contrast, Resident Evil Remastered was over in just 3 hrs, and I heard nothing along the same lines from video game fandom. Interesting.

It's the best Transformers game I've ever played. It's jam PACKED with content in the several hour campaign that one will find themthemselves in, grinning ear to ear like a 10 year old kid all over again like it's 1984.

 

Whilst I enjoyed the game very much, I'd like to hear the music from the version you played because in mine it was bland, uninspired & at times downright annoying. When I read that DiCola was doing the music I was expecting something akin to the '86 classic but what we got was this mish-mash of very poor techno-scratching & the most electric of guitars. Ho-hum, each to their own.

And a couple of observations; why was Shrapnel re-named Skrapnel & why did Bumblebee's vehicle form resemble the G1 Hubcap toy rather than his classic VW Beetle?

 

They don't have the lisence for the name Shrapnel nor the VW Bug.

 

Did you guys watch the after-credits teaser? Really makes me want to see a sequel!

Vince DiCola probably only composed the title screen themesong and the end credits theme. At least that's what I remember the credits showing.

It's kind of too bad that fans expect to play as Cons, or more characters. Yes, that would absolutely rock if it were a reality. But I basically compare this game to Bayonetta and MGS Rising, not Dynasty Warriors.

 

How could you even compare with one of the original giants of survival horror, originally released in 1996 and remade in 2002?

This one was also short, and I heard nothing along the same lines from video game fandom:

 

I have Grimlock in my name. That gives me certain priveledges.

 

Haha really? I get the VW Beetle thing but not being able to get the name Shrapnel seems very odd. Fair enough though, you never know what goes on behind the scenes & it didn't stop it from being a fun game.
Thanks for the info!

 

I still ned to finish foc