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REVIEW
The game is your typical third-

stick at. As this is essentially the

clearly not a Transformers fan

person shooter affair minus the

prologue to the Transformers

as everyone should know he

cover mechanic, which is a good

story, the development team had

is the voice of Optimus Prime.

thing, as you’ll get to witness

total freedom on the design of

Unfortunately we don’t have

your character seamlessly morph

the characters themselves. You

Frank Weller as Megatron but we

between forms whenever you

see, as this is the beginning of

can’t have everything can we?

deem it necessary to transform.

the Transformers timeline as we

The single-player campaign

know it, the different alternate

Overall fans of Transformers

should span around 15 - 20

forms as we know them wouldn’t

will surely love this and even if

hours for the average player

exist, for example Optimus is not a

you’re not a fan of Transformers

with plenty of replayability found

huge truck like we know from the

then I would still recommend

in the co-op and MP modes.

cartoons/film adaptation purely

the title as it is a solid shooter,

because they have not reached

well worthy of your playtime.

Visually the game is a treat,

Earth where there is the need

using Epic’s Unreal Engine

simulate our vehicles to blend in.

to great effect to recreate the
Transformers’ homeworld of

On the audio side of things,

Cybertron in all of its scale and

you’ll be glad to know that

glory. As you would expect, it’s all

the game does have the voice

smooth surfaces and more metal

talent of Peter Cullen, and if you

than you can shake a recycling

don’t know who that is, you’re

85+15

Transformers Special Edition

8.5

By Neil Hetherington
The GameOn Magazine

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