I picked this up on a whim, expecting it to end up on its way to the charity shop, but I think I may have unearthed something a little special.
Admittedly this game is a few years old. And, if you go by reviews online, it's got outdated graphics, a terrible story and is a bit repetitive, with badly done Transforming segments dotted through it.
All of these things are true. BUT
It's great!
The game is on a conveyor belt, with the main part being in the robot mode. I've had a really good time using this section's simple duck out of cover - zoom in - headshot game mechanic, with a score multiplier for consecutive hits that gets eaten away by jumping into cover. There is some choice in weapons, with sniping / locking in / manual fire being the main options. The sequence of picking a weapon, zooming in for the hit, then ducking in and out of cover with practice becomes a flow, and it's possible to hit high scores with multipliers.
The actual transforming into a car / plane happens automatically during about a third of each level, and to be honest is crap. I pointed my vehicle in the right direction and waited for the good bits. By doing that it's tolerable, and definitely not enough to detract from the whole thing. There are some challenge modes, and though it's not that hard to finish the game the high scores are where it's all at. The Transformers license is used appropriately, and it feels like there's that little drop of love for the characters in there.
This won't change the world, and there are a lot of things that could be done better, but it will make a boring Monday locked in the house with man-flu go that little bit quicker. Has anyone else played it? Am I delusional, or did the reviews online fail to see past the blocky graphics?
Admittedly this game is a few years old. And, if you go by reviews online, it's got outdated graphics, a terrible story and is a bit repetitive, with badly done Transforming segments dotted through it.
All of these things are true. BUT
It's great!
The game is on a conveyor belt, with the main part being in the robot mode. I've had a really good time using this section's simple duck out of cover - zoom in - headshot game mechanic, with a score multiplier for consecutive hits that gets eaten away by jumping into cover. There is some choice in weapons, with sniping / locking in / manual fire being the main options. The sequence of picking a weapon, zooming in for the hit, then ducking in and out of cover with practice becomes a flow, and it's possible to hit high scores with multipliers.
The actual transforming into a car / plane happens automatically during about a third of each level, and to be honest is crap. I pointed my vehicle in the right direction and waited for the good bits. By doing that it's tolerable, and definitely not enough to detract from the whole thing. There are some challenge modes, and though it's not that hard to finish the game the high scores are where it's all at. The Transformers license is used appropriately, and it feels like there's that little drop of love for the characters in there.
This won't change the world, and there are a lot of things that could be done better, but it will make a boring Monday locked in the house with man-flu go that little bit quicker. Has anyone else played it? Am I delusional, or did the reviews online fail to see past the blocky graphics?
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