January 6, 2011
Silver Is Cybertron’s Brown
The last two Transformers movies were completely and utterly terrible. Like, seriously. So bad. I feel like it must be hard for people who care about Transformers right now. They’ve got such shit carrying the name that they love.
At least they have a decent game in the form of War for Cybertron.
Now, I’ll admit I didn’t get very far in this. It makes some strange decisions. For example, I was almost always hurting for ammunition the entire time I played. Enemies don’t drop more ammo or weapons, so you only get them from boxes around the environment. However, the area I was in looked so samey all around, it was easy to miss these boxes, and then I’d have no ammo for the next encounter. It also doesn’t really give you any indication of what your powers and such do. Granted, that is kind of refreshing. It just says “Yo, there’s no tutorial, so read the in-game manual to learn about shit” when you start a new game. But it’s a shooter. Why would I read about how to play a shooter? Still, there was all kinds of “powers” in the different multiplayer classes that the playable characters fell into that I didn’t really get.
Also, I just don’t really give a shit about Transformers.
I mean, I wanted to try the game, just because I’ve heard nothing but positive stuff about this game. I was wondering if that was just being shocked that a Transformers game could be good, or if it genuinely was something worth playing no matter what. I found it was mostly the former. There’s nothing wrong with what I played. It’s a completely competent first person shooter with seemingly everyone voiced by Spike Spiegel. It’s got co-op through the campaign, so that’s always a good way to increase the fun factor. Supposedly the multiplayer isn’t shit either. But yeah, I don’t know. I’ve played so many mediocre 3rd person shooters, and I just wasn’t feeling it. It wasn’t drawing me in with any style, you know?
But man, Transformers fans are probably still playing this and loving it. And good for them!