Playing as a robot never was so exciting, this game really worth playing and a must-have title for any transformers fun.
Bad: Some weapons sounds aren't so explosive as it might be; you may think the cars controls looks a little slippy on the beginning.
Unfortunately it is normal to think a movie game is buggy, not so polish as the normal games and a totally shame in gameplay, graphics, sounds and fun, but Transformers - The Game change this subject, being a very well done game, destined not only for Transformers series fans, but for others gamers too. At the beginnig, you can choose if you wanna play as an Autobot or Decepticon; if you choose the first, you play a plot resembling the 2007 movie, with little changes. If so, you start as Bumblebee in its 80's Camaro concept, in a small city with a few buildings and houses, parks and others locations that you might have seen on the movie. Here, you can follow the orders of Optimus Prime or simply "roll out" by the streets, colecting bonuses that consists in trailers and pics from the movie and cartoons, things that almost always have in that kind of game; the real fun in doing that is in traveling by the various places in the city, just like a GTA game (this sandbox concept really changed the games forever, for good), or you can just transform in a robot when you want, where you want, and, let's say, climb up a building, destroy some house ceilings, grab objects like cars, trees and mailboxes to throw at your enemies, that even if you aren't on a mission, can just transform from a fork-lift into a battle robot and try to defeat you.
In each mission, you can play as a different robot, like Ironhide, Jazz and Optimus Prime from the Autobots, and Blackout, Scorponok, Starscream and Megatron from the Decepticons. The controls are practically the same, varying just a little between the terrain and flying vehicles. The locations and levels resembles the ones from the film itself, bringing the max of details of it, from the Bolivia's cars sellers place to the ruins at the desert as you play as Blackout or Scorponok. Virtually every piece of junk can be destroyed, exploded and threw away by the robots in the game, even the NPC ones.
The boss battles is just right, not too easy, not too hard to play, and watching those big robots throwing each other against buildings and trees and bullets and missiles flying around are so exciting, that it makes you come back and play it all over again. An special attention could be noticed on the animations of the robots. Its fun to watch each piece of the car changing to a part of the robot body, and vice-versa, and as it walks on the streets, trembling the screen and the objects around, you feel like controlling a robot, not a can with legs, as in others games.
The sounds are good, but could be better when refering to weapons, some of them lacks a real "boom" sound, but, apart of that, it is good and well placed, the robot steps, punchs, car engines, and oh, I almost forgot: it varies from one robot to another. The musics are the same from the movie, varying according to each situation, making it even more thrilling.
Summarizing, Transformers is a good game to have, with a good history, and the possibility to play as Decepticons and see what could have happened if Megatron has defeated Optimus Prime is curious, making the campaign last a little long, once it doesn't have a multiplayer option.