Transformers game getting ripped in the reviews, what a surprise!

[duffmanth]

Well I just read ign.com's review of the new Transformers game, and what a surprise, it's a piece of shit! Wasn't it Activision's CEO that just last week was saying the PS3 is too expensive and needs a price drop and he expects people to pay $60 for this shitty game that was probably slapped together in a week to make it out for the movie's release date!?

Games like this shouldn't even be allowed to make it to retailers shelves and if they do, they should go straight to the $10 bargain bin! Fucking Activision is just as shitty as EA as far as I'm concerned (in some cases).

[Enigmus]

Fucking Activision is just as shitty as EA as far as I'm concerned.

Remember that EA published the hit Sims 3? EA isn't all crap.

[CreativeOnlineSurname]

A movie-based game that is of low quality. You don't say.

It'll be $19.99 within three months. If it's still not worth it to you, don't buy it. I, for one, never got around to playing the game based off of the first movie, but did think it was cool that you could get G1 skins for your characters, so I may give it a shot one day.

[Gamereviewgod]

IGN was generous. The entire single player campaign is a series of online battles against really dumb bots, aside from the boss fights. Haven't been online yet, although I doubt a community will form around this one anyway.

[roushimsx]

I can only imagine that Activision set unrealistic deadlines on the developer. Luxoflux typically does a much, much better job with their licensed games (Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda). Shame to see this one turn out the way it did...I had my hopes pretty high after seeing that they were handling it.

[duffmanth]

I should clarify what I meant about my comments about EA. I'm just saying 10 years ago it was pretty rare that EA would put out shitty games. Now their games are really hit and miss. They put out great games like Tiger, Madden, and Burnout, but at the same time pieces of crap like Mercenaries 2, NFS: Undercover, and Nascar.

Activision used to be pretty solid to, now they come out with great games like COD, but at the same time they keep pumping out these crappy movie based games like Transformers.

[exit]

Was it really necessary to make a thread for this.

[Snapple]

It seems the discussion-worthy part of the first post is the fact that the Activision CEO said Sony should drop their prices when he wasn't willing to drop the price of his games, which is hypocritical and stupid.

But really, that could've been its own topic. A movie game being bad is kind of redundant.

[ncman071]

its not at all surprising that yet another movie based game is simply a bad game. Companies are just trying to make a quick buck because they know that a decent percentage of movie goers will go out and buy its respective game. Why go and spend any real time developing a game for a fanbase whose gonna buy it regardless?

I hate this sad reality, but thats the reason i NEVER buy a game based on a movie.

[Blitzwing256]

Transformers have been plagued with awfull games since the 80s (although I liked mystery of convoy) headmasters was unplayably bad....the c64 one was very confusing, the beast wars neo fighting game was playable but medicore, the n64 transmetals game wasn't even finished (released as an exclusive) the transmetal game for psx was semi playable but bland, same with the beast wars game for psx/pc. the g1 ps2 game was.....specail.


the armada game was just a boring awfull 3d banjokazooieish crapfest (collect minicons instead of stars or puzzle pieces...) and the first movie game was a gta ripoff without the hookers or the fun. so this game really didn't have much good to be compared to. the kids will buy it up by the hundreds cuz they can play as bumblebee and shoot megatron. it doens't have to be anything special, it'll be a greatest hit in a month easily like the first movie game.

[Famidrive-16]

LINKIN PARK is playing TRANSFORMERS on XBOX LIVE!!!

[jcalder8]

Wait just a second....

OP are you saying that a movie tie in game isn't good?

Since when did this start happening?

[aclbandit]

Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) ...

Okay, wait, yeah, movie games can be expected to suck.

EDIT: I also suddenly remembered the Lion King game on SNES and Aladdin for Genesis. Those were fun, at least when I was younger.

[A Black Falcon]

Given that Transformers seems to be a perfect license to make awesome games based on, it is weird that most Transformers games are either awful or, at best, mediocre... why has there never been a great Transformers game? It's pretty strange, really...

[Jorpho]

LINKIN PARK is playing TRANSFORMERS on XBOX LIVE!!!Is that a Zippy the Pinhead quote?


Given that Transformers seems to be a perfect license to make awesome games based on, it is weird that most Transformers games are either awful or, at best, mediocre... why has there never been a great Transformers game? It's pretty strange, really...I'd think it would be pretty hard to make something workable, really. The contexts in which you'd have a robot running around blasting at things are just completely different from those in which you'd have a car driving around. Perhaps something like SNES Vortex, maybe?

[Blitzwing256]

it'd be dificult to build a good game based on transformers, you can only blow up soo many insecticons or seeker jets before it gets stale (just look at the ps2 game) the first game almost got the gameplay semi right, it was just killed with the very strict time limits the first few levels were great,.

were I to build a tf game, i'd make it open world on cybertron and have you as autobots protect your headquarters (iacon) from the cons, have unique missions where you have to protect it from say insecticons.....then another with the seekers. then unique battles vs named charecters etc etc. perhaps add some spy missions as bumbleebee, or recon missons as jetfire/powerglide.. throw in some big robot battles as combiners and it could work...but keeping the game from being repettive would be very dificult if not impossible.

[swlovinist]

The problem with so many movie licensed games is that they are bound to what the movie looks and plays like usually. Personally speaking, I thought that the some of the Transformers in the new movie look like crap.


With that being said, no suprise here that the game licks

[The 1 2 P]

Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay

Fixed for you;)

[roushimsx]

The Armada-based Transformers game on PS2 was pretty awesome but totally Nintendo-hard on default difficulty.

There's been plenty of games based on movies or tv shows that have been well worth playing. Saying otherwise just shows as much bias and ignorance as saying "EA SUCKS".

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

seems to me a decent transformers game could be made in the mechassault vein. or go the mechcommander route... choose your loadout from an available list of autobots and take care of your mission... still would be kinda bunk without the customization options though.

[calthaer]

The PS2 Armada game with the mini-cons was actually not too bad of a game - I completed it, and even went back for the harder difficulty modes, which is saying a lot for just about any game these days. Some of those bunkers on the last island on Veteran difficulty mode...I'm starting to believe they just might be impossible, but I come so close...

The boss battle with Tidal Wave was pretty epic, and some of the other fights were likewise pretty decent. All in all it was a halfway decent game...not amazingly excellent, but halfway decent.

It was kind of like the first G.I.Joe game by Taxan - pretty good but not amazing.

Including some more useful ways to utilize vehicle mode would have changed things for that game dramatically.

There hasn't been a great TF game yet, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be...if only they made something like Freedom Force, but with transforming robots.

[kupomogli]

Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay
3) Scarface: the World is Yours
4) Batman(a few of them)
5) Alot of Disney themed games.
6) Robocop vs Terminator
7) Alien vs Predator(which is based off two movies which they made a movie out of.)



Fixed for you;)

Yeah. There are a few good ones.

[GarrettCRW]

Naming specific examples of Batman and Disney games would help, seeing as how both franchises have also generated some serious turds.

[ProgrammingAce]

I've kind of wondered if you could make a game in the vein of Call of Duty 4's multiplayer, just make it Autobots vs. Decepticons. Different bots would be your different classes.

I mean, the point of the show/movie is for the name brand bots to fight each other. That's about the only way i can see it working.

[Daria]

Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay
3) Scarface: the World is Yours
4) Batman(a few of them)
5) Alot of Disney themed games.
6) Robocop vs Terminator
7) Alien vs Predator(which is based off two movies which they made a movie out of.)
8) Blade Runner
9) Willow
10) Goonies 2
11) Ghost Busters

Okay, wait, yeah, movie games can be expected to suck.


I like this game.

[unwinddesign]

Naming specific examples of Batman and Disney games would help, seeing as how both franchises have also generated some serious turds.

Aladdin and the Lion King were both excellent games. I played both of them fairly recently, too, and it's not just nostalgia. Not the hardest or most innovative games in the world, but really well done and pretty fun.

Aladdin for Genesis and SNES were even completely different games and managed to both be really good.

[Cryomancer]

Hell, make it a sandbox / car stealing type game. Instead of stealing cars, you could just transform into them!

[Jorpho]

Considering the Gamerankings score is actually hovering around 80% right now, one might think that the game is actually not completely terrible. Even IGN gave it a 6 out of 10.

In fact, given that the OP only references said IGN review, perhaps this thread's title needs some reworking.

[Iron Draggon]

Originally Posted by aclbandit
Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay
3) Scarface: the World is Yours
4) Batman(a few of them)
5) Alot of Disney themed games.
6) Robocop vs Terminator
7) Alien vs Predator(which is based off two movies which they made a movie out of.)
8) Blade Runner
9) Willow
10) Goonies 2
11) Ghost Busters

Okay, wait, yeah, movie games can be expected to suck.


I like this game.

only the AVP game that's currently in development is actually based on the movies... all the other ones came long before the movies made it onscreen

[roushimsx]

Originally Posted by aclbandit
Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay
3) Scarface: the World is Yours
4) Batman(a few of them)
5) Alot of Disney themed games.
6) Robocop vs Terminator
7) Alien vs Predator(which is based off two movies which they made a movie out of.)
8) Blade Runner
9) Willow
10) Goonies 2
11) Ghost Busters

only the AVP game that's currently in development is actually based on the movies... all the other ones came long before the movies made it onscreen
But there was still a series of books and comic books before it, just like all of the Batman stuff. Plus, if you're going to nitpick that, why not dump on Chronicles of Riddick (it's a prequel to Pitch Black), Scarface (it's a sequel to the movie), Robocop vs Terminator (based on a comic book), Blade Runner (it's a side story to the movie which was based on a book oh so loosely) or Goonies 2 (barely related to the movie)? Is it a bad thing when the universes in movies are explored further through games or do you only accept 1:1 translations of movies to games as movie licensed games?

Hell, the Terminator franchise (originally a movie!) alone has spit out some killer games, ranging from Terminator in 1990 to both Future Shock and Skynet (all three were extremely innovative titles well ahead of their time).

Star Wars (originally a movie!) has spit out classics like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Knights of the Old Republic, and more.

Spiderman 2 (loosely based on the film of the same name) was an evolution for sandbox games that paved the way for Crackdown.

It's as easy to spit out names of licensed games that totally don't suck as it is to spit out shitty ones. Big deal.

edit - oh! I forgot! and the AvP movies sucked. :(

[The 1 2 P]

Naming specific examples of Batman and Disney games would help, seeing as how both franchises have also generated some serious turds.

The first Batman game on Nes(based on the first Michael Keaton movie) and Batman: Revenge of The Joker(Genesis) are pretty much the best two Batman games ever made. All others have failed to live up to these two.

[roushimsx]

The first Batman game on Nes(based on the first Michael Keaton movie) and Batman: Revenge of The Joker(Genesis) are pretty much the best two Batman games ever made. All others have failed to live up to these two.

The SNES version of Adventures of Batman & Robin would like a word with you. We can only hope that Arkham Asylum turns out to be half as good as the previews have been sounding.

Not sure how everyone else feels about it, but the Caped Crusader game (I played it in DOS) was a hell of a lot of fun back in the day, too.

[aclbandit]

Fixed for you;)

You know, I've heard good things about the Riddick game, to the point where I actually bought a copy -- I've GOT to get around to playing it.

[Arcade_Ness]

I actually enjoy this new Transformers ROTF game. Though being a big Transformers fan I have bias, so take that in consideration. The single player mode is alright, repetitive, but that was a given. The mulitplayer is suprisingly good. I have some TF fans I plan to play with, so I look forward to that(when everyone gets a copy).

[mnbren05]

After renting the first Transformers game released for the last movie I will hold off. I have been burned by Spiderman 3, Iron Man, Jumper, Watchmen, and Transformers (I'm sure I am forgetting a few.) I doubt I will give this title a try.

[Jorpho]

After renting the first Transformers game released for the last movie I will hold off. I have been burned by Spiderman 3, Iron Man, Jumper, Watchmen, and Transformers (I'm sure I am forgetting a few.) I doubt I will give this title a try.Are you saying that maybe you haven't learned your lesson yet? :hmm:

[Rob2600]

Originally Posted by aclbandit
Now c'mon, be fair, there have been a few good movie games, like...
1) GoldenEye
2) Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher's Bay
3) Scarface: the World is Yours
4) Batman(a few of them)
5) Alot of Disney themed games.
6) Robocop vs Terminator
7) Alien vs Predator(which is based off two movies which they made a movie out of.)
8) Blade Runner
9) Willow
10) Goonies 2
11) Ghost Busters

The Godfather Wii game is good and there have been several good Star Wars games. The Indiana Jones N64 game was pretty good, too.

Goonies 2 and Ghostbusters: no.

[The 1 2 P]

You know, I've heard good things about the Riddick game, to the point where I actually bought a copy -- I've GOT to get around to playing it.

I'm not sure if you have a 360 or PS3 but you can download the demo for the new game(Dark Athena). If you play that it will give you a feel for how the original game plays.