Product Description

Transformers: The Game Wii Protect earth or destroy it. The choice is yours!Control the outcome in the battle for Earth this summer with TRANSFORMERS, the official game of the upcoming blockbuster film from Producer Steven Spielberg and Director Michael Bay.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1769 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Published on: 2007-06
• Released on: 2007-06-26
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .57" h x 5.42" w x 7.51" l, .36 pounds

Features

• Instantly transform from a larger-than-life robot to a high-powered vehicle, to leave your enemies in the dust
• Use ranged weapons in either Robot mode or Vehicle mode to take out your enemies
• Every object in the game world, including buildings and vehicles, can be crushed, toppled, wrecked - even used as weapons
• Choose among an army of characters in the Transformers universe and utilize their unique abilities to complete missions
• Engage in melee combat with special moves unique to each character

Customer Reviews

3.5; Smashing stuff has never been more fun
To be honest, I was more into the CG-animated TV series "Beast Wars" rather than the original show. Of course Optimus Prime is cool and I even had a Starscream action figure but for some reason, Beast Wars had more influence growing up. But still, the idea of it was always cool and with the upcoming Transformers movie gaining heavy buzz, of course a game's got to come up. While this easily eclipses the Beast Wars game from the Playstation, what could've been is just all the more disappointing.

Story: Aww do I have to? It's so easy! Autobots and Decepticons are looking for something called the "AllSpark" and it happens to be on Earth. So guess who's hosting one of the biggest battles ever? Yep, we are and either controlling one side or the other, you got all hell to unleash.

Graphics: What makes the characters stand out is the animation and the designs. Mock the more rigged look, they always felt more plausible rather than in the old show where it had more of a fantasy element. And transforming into a car is probably the coolest thing. While the level designs are kind of bland if at least detailed, it's the characters and the interactive parts that stand out.

Sound/Music: Normally these tie-ins always have repetitive music where the theme song is done in so many different ways. Here, while lacking identifiable themes, the sound mix is awesome with everything exploding to the big epic music, this is one to use with your new sound system.

Gameplay: Here's where the game dips. It's very much mission-based a la GTA and these aren't hard in the sense you're underpowered but rather you're just so slow. It's one of those kind of games where you really have to hit your marks on the road because one snag can cost you the whole mission. Frustration is largely due in part to game design and how things are set up, rather than you just being a bad player.

Vehicle modes are just like GTA except you got 2 weapons. Robot mode is quite disappointing outside of the destruction you can bring. Wave the Wii-mote sideways to punch and vertically to grab things such as cars to launch. However in order to throw or fight a Decepticon you have to lock-on, meaning pressing Z as you point at what you want to fight. Couple that with your Wii-mote controlling the camera so you can easily fly all over the place unless you have a steady hand and know where you're aiming. However, it's all in fun and there's a huge coolness factor in being a transformer demolishing stuff.

It may be frustrating but you gotta admit it's dumb fun, probably just like the movie will be. So if you got time to spare or a kid, it's good for a try, maybe not a full buy though.

Coulda been better!
This game is fun, and I really like that you get to transform whenever you want, however the camera when you are a robot is controlled by where you are pointing the Wii remote and is automatically behind the car when you are a car. So every time I switch over to the robot, to fight, the camera goes all the way to the ground and I'm looking up at Bumblebee's butt and then I get stomped by the Decepticon I'm trying to fight. Then its really hard to get the camera in the right place and keep it there. This game could have been a lot better if they had made the camera be automatically behind you when your're a robot. I like that you can pick up everything and anything and chuck it around, very cool!

very awesome game
I rented this game to see if it was as bad as its reviews said it was, and I was very surprised at how good it was. Of course, I used the cheat codes for health and ammo, but that is besides the point. It was a little challenging, but I have played harder games, and the "problem" with the camera can be fixed by pressing the - button or putting the camera sensitivity on low. This is a great game for people like me who like action games but do not like the blood and senseless killing, P.S. blowing up robots is not killing ;). I think this is a great game and would recommend it as a good challenge.