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Thumbs UP!
The game was for my children and they love it! Transformers is their favorite movie and the game has renewed their love for the genre.

A wasted effort
There are very few games based on movies that end up very good. Often times all you can hope for is a nice average game, Transformers is unfortunately not even an average game. I see no point to going into a great detail about all the high and low points of this game, other than the fact that the high point list would be pretty short. This game was awful, the controls, story, mission, everything. The only neat thing is changing back and forth from a vehicle to a giant robot, and that isn't enough to carry a game. The characters aren't fluid and everything seems forces. If you must run around as a robot and destroy things there are better games to do it in. Pass this one up.

Fun game
It is a fun game for both my boys. It would have been nice if it were two players though. But they do love the game.

Not like the movie
The movie is a 5 stars hands down with two thumbs up... no question bout it.
The game has potential it's true, cool graphics, but the cut scenes look like made to get over with fast and even silly comparing the sequence and concept to the movie... and the missions, very repetitive and annoying sometimes... Big trans fan trust me.. but they could've made it perfect instead of almost.

Eh...
This game came with the Xbox 360 my wife bought for me on ebay so I thought I'd give it a try. While it is fun driving through the streets and then transforming into a giant robot, the missions in this game are mind numbingly dumb and frustrating. Guess my biggest complaint is when you're fighting the bosses, you have a very small green area that you have to fight in. Get outside the area for a few seconds, and you're going to have to repeat the mission. It's so irritating that the bosses don't actually have to beat you, they just have to engage you or keep you from getting back inside the green area. I just don't understand why the designers wouldn't allow you the entire city (or at least a larger piece of real estate) to fight. Worse than that is that missions and boss fights are so repetitive and waayyyy to long. Fight the boss. Boss flies/drives away. Fight boss' minions. Boss comes back full health. Fight boss. Boss flies/drives away. Fight minions. Boss comes back full health. Repeat process. Oh, and get stopped during one of these encounters and its back to square one.

Another irritating point is the inability to use your guns. Sure you have them, but they do no damage on your opponents because they'll just throw up an energy shield and block you. Course the shield is far from perfect because while bullets and high explosives do little to penetrate it, a thrown tree or light post will go right through. Often times, you can't even do damage on a boss until you can hit him with some sort of object (car, tree, pole, etc...), and good luck with that because the targeting controls are worse than horrible.

Lastly, I honestly cannot stand the A.I. in the game. People walk around you like you weren't even there or just run hysterically directly into you. When you fight Megatron as Optimus Prime, you're constantly having to dodge people and cars who are for whatever reason oblivious to the fact that two 30 foot robots are laying smack down on each other in the middle of the city and just go about their business. You'd think dad would have the common sense not to drive the family mini-van in the middle of that but unfortunately, that's not the case here. If that wasn't bad enough, when you play as an autobot, there are cop cars constantly harrassing you. Apparently, local law enforcement has sided with the Decepticons because they only shoot at you and not them. I was fighting as Jazz vs. Starscream and Blackout and trying to get away to earn more health when I was blind sided by two cop cars and pinned in between a non-existent wall allowing both Blackout and Starscream to beat the crap out of my stupid non-responsive robot.

Overall, this game had so much potential but fell flat on its face with poor game design and an awful A.I. Can't tell you how many times playing this game I've wanted to throw my controller at the screen. If you have to play it, you're much better off renting.