Transformers: The Game
 

Fuck this game. What I should say is fuck this shitty, shitty game. Spider-Man 3 is a masterpiece compared to this cluster-fuck. I wonder if the game developers would just sit at their stations and laugh at what a piece of shit they were making? They can't have thought they were making a decent game. They may have thought, "Fuck it, it is based a Michael Bay film so we'll give them the video game equivalent." But come on guys, doesn't personal pride come into it at all? The controls are shit, the fighting mechanics are shit, the missions are even more fucking shit. I suspect this game will be the number cause of world-wide suicide for at least 6 months. Personally, I would rather nail my scrotum to my seat with rusty nails than to even look at the cover of this crapfest again.

Congratulations, Traveller's Tales. You just made the Pearl Harbor of video games.

Come on. Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.

I completely concur. I feel so incredibly stupid for buying this game.

wow - I now cannot wait to get this in the mail for reviewing :)

What console were you playing this on? I played it on the PS2 and felt like punching myself in the face. I couldn't help wondering if the next gen consoles somehow made it playable.

I hope you did not get Vampire Rain too. Playing Transformers and Vampire Rain back to back would make any normal man want to commit suicide. :)

Just imagine how empty that post would have been without the words "fuck" and "shit".

lmao - nope. Todd is getting that steaming pile :) I'm also getting Harry Potter Wii and Scarface Wii. Actually excited about HP - EXPELLARAMIUS! or something.

i must say...


this game nearly set the record for "least amount of play before realizing its a waste of time"

I haven't even passed the first autobot and decepticon levels before shelving it.

The only, and I mean only, redemption this game has going for it is that the Transformations don't completely suck.

No kidding. I bought it after my 15 year old nephew told me it was awesome and immediately after I saw the movie. I fucking hate this game more than any game I've bought in recent memory. I quit after playing one Autobot and one Decepticon level. This game just flat out sucks.

I've got it for the PS3. The answer is no.

It's your own fault for buying a movie tie-in.

my little brother (23) was trying to tell me the game was cool for DS


my jaw nearly dropped

The frustrating thing about playing the game (and I'm playing through, trying to get the achievements) is that it had the potential to be SO much better. But shitty controls for the vehicles, redundancy in the missions, and ridiculously difficult boss battles (see: Blackout vs. Ironhide) take away from it.

Seeing Shockwave was cool, though.

As bad as you may think this game is, the PSP and DS version are even worse.

That's a given, but doesn't change the fact that this game is absolutely painful to play...even for a movie tie-in.

And the DS version is split into two different games!

I was considering picking it up at TRU with the buy 1 get 1 free on select Activision games, but I guess I won't now. It's funny, before they were released I would have though getting Spiderman 3 and Transformers games for half off would've been a steal.

I am glad I waited.

Fuck me. I just bought this game off of Ebay. Goddamn it, why couldn't I have seen this thread two days ago? Guess I won't even open it and try to pawn it off on some other self-deprecating carbon unit.

PS - I ONLY bought it cuz the movie was pretty kick ass - the concept seemed impossible to fuck up. Im stupid.

I've asked this before and I'll ask it again, how can companies release bad games like this?

I would say just on Fincher Fan's reaction to the game, that the game is an instant classic! :sarcasm:

The game isn't that bad. I've played worse movie tie-ins.

I bought the two DS games at TRU today, I'm glad I read this before I opened them.

Darn. And here I was upset cos I couldn't get a PS2 copy at work. My friends who bought it all told me they loved it. :confused:

I just bought it today on impulse for the XBOX 360, before seeing this thread. I don't think it's terrible- certainly better than the demo for Pirates 3, and loads more fun than Superman Returns.

Superman Returns, Pirates 3, and Spider-Man 3 are all flawed movie tie-in games. But at the same time, there's some aspect of them (flying in Superman, the black suit in Spider-Man 3, using the Wii remote to swordfight in the Wii version of Pirates) that give them some level of playability. Transformers has nothing going for it. The Autobots and Decepticons actually look really good, which makes it all the more tragic that you cannot do anything interesting with them. This really is one of the worst games I've ever played.

Why is it so hard to make a good movie tie-in? Do the developers put their interns on the development team or something? Do the developers feel too creatively tied down because they have to follow the plot of the movie? Do they know it will sell because of the name alone and thus put in no effort? Games like Chronicles of Riddick prove that it's not only possible to make a good tie-in, it's possible to make a tie-in that becomes one of the best games a console has. Didn't this developer also make Lego Star Wars, easily one of the most fun and creative movie tie-in games ever made?

This even a question? First of all, quality has no effect on sales, as evidenced in even this thread with everyone talking about Spider-Men and X-Man games and so forth; apparently, people buy them just because it has some comic book character on the cover. Secondly, developers have to have the game <strike>finished</strike> on the shelf to tie-in to the movie. There was an interview with Retro Studios recently and they were asked what it was like being a Western developer working under a Japanese company.. their answer? Something along the lines of "American companies work under time constraints, Japanese companies work under quality constraints."

I think those are certainly factors, but there are good tie-in games. Hell, Spider-Man 3 was a semi-decent game. Obviously time was the reason it wasn't made better. But sometimes even tie-in games get delayed, and when they came out, they still aren't good, so I don't know.

The Japanese are no less guilty in the area of making mediocre licensed games (that the populace still buys anyway): look at all the Bandai licensed games that I own.

There's the deadline crunch, there's the "it'll sell no matter the quality" factor, the "licenses are for kids" factor, the "we spent all our money on the license" factor, etc., etc. Really, a licensed game is just a way to make a quick buck... they usually won't make it into a franchise unless the movie or property is really huge (they have no guarantee that they'll have the license for any movie sequels), and the game will most likely be massively discounted as soon as the movie leaves the public eye. And then there are sometimes huge limitations levied by the original property owners (like how they wouldn't let the developers use Neo in the first matrix game).

Spiderman 3 sucking is what really gets me... Spiderman 2 was great.

Misery loves company :D

Time for some new friends.

wow, i was seriously considering getting this on wednesday, guess ill have to pass.

I don't know, I still want it but not for more than $20.