Game Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron

Over the past 26 years, Transformers has been famous in the entertainment industry. It appears in comic books, movies, toys, and now computer game.

Although there have been some games about Transformers (and they received negative reviews for bad graphic engine, poor performance), Transformers: War for Cybertron is the new member of Transformers family that received positive reviews and is recommended by many gamers.

War for Cybertron is really expected by many fans of the transformers series as it released its trailer. High Moon studio’s developers have showed the gamers their best. With third-person shooting style, combining with racing and the “transforming” ability of the characters, the game is really worth the expectations of transformers fans. War for Cybertron is the best “Transformers” game of all time.

Introducing the last days of the war between Autobot and Decepticon on Cybertron, the game starts. High Moon studio tells the story with a good visual style, the cut scenes are arranged well and the good viewing angle make the cut scenes more informative and not too long.

If in normal standards, the plot probably is the factor that lead the game to success. But suprisingly, High Moon studio enriched the gameplay with materials of an action game instead of just shooting and running. The game’s terrain is really impressive and requires you to have a good ability to analyze the situations as you can defeat someone or be defeated in just a matter of seconds.

There is a co-op mode in single player - campaign,  so you can get supports from your friend in order to complete the mission. You will be amazed by the transforming ability of the characters as they are brand new, even an experienced gamer can be surprised.

The game still have minor bugs, the multiplayer mode only support 10 players at a time, the AI-controlled robots sometimes are too weak or too strong, making the game unbalanced.

However, War for Cybertron is worth the $60 you have paid, with many hours playing, a challenging tournament mode. Transformers: War for Cybertron will be a good game this summer.