Aim! Shoot!! Duck!!!

Update! I have a new post with my final thoughts for this game here.  Below is my initial impressions of this great game.

Finally a Transformers based game arrives that impresses me enough to write my thoughts on. Transformers: War for Cybertron is not based on the movie or cartoon but instead tells the story that have never been told before. The war on Cybertron that started it all. This part of the Transformers mythology has never been fleshed out much, perhaps maybe in short parts here & there in the cartoon & movie, but that’s all I can remember. The game centers on the end part of the war, but covers stuff like Megatron’s reasoning for the war, Starscream’s defection to the Decepticons, how Optimus meet Bumblebee & Optimus becoming a Prime. But do keep in mind, the Transformers universe itself have a lot of different storyline depending on which series you follow, this one sticks more to the original Generation 1 cartoon.

Transformers War For Cybertron PC

When starting off the game, you can choose to start the Decepticons or the Autobots campaign but the storyline is set that the Decepticons campaign should be played first. Starting the Autobots campain first might leave you a bit confused as to what have happened. On initial play, the game didn’t really strike me as impressive, but from chapter 3 onwards the game picks up the pace & draws me in. From then on, I couldn’t stop playing & just had to see what happens next. This is helped by the added humour in the conversations happening at the same time.

Bumblebee & Optimus

When playing the campaign, you’re always in a 3 robot team, you choose which one of the 3 when starting a chapter & will use that same one till you finish the chapter. You can also choose to play the campaign with CPU controlled team mates or online with other people. I haven’t tried playing the campaign online yet with other people but if your teammates are CPU controlled they don’t sustain damage or die so no need to worry about them. I’ll try it online after I finish the campaign.

Megatron & Soundwave

The game runs pretty well on my gaming rig which is almost 3 years old now. I’m running it at 1600×900 resolution with details set on high on a AMD X2 5000+ processor, 4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM & Nvidia 8800GT video card. Sounds pretty dated right? Haha. Sure there are slowdowns in some crazy sections but 95% of the time it’s smooth & that’s what matters most. Graphics wise, it’s quite intense in the sense that there’s so much happening in the background. There’s a war going on after all. But no it’s not Crysis so don’t expect any groundbreaking graphics here. The environments are a mix of corridors, hallways, huge rooms & some open space. In end part for the Decepticons campaign you have to face off Omega Supreme & you’re running for your lives until you can find something to damage Omega Supreme with. Now that was quite intense!

I Am Omega Supreme. Mission - Terminate Megatron.

I’ve finished the Decepticons campaign & have to say, I was left breathless at the end of the battle with Omega Supreme. I’m now a quarter through the Autobots campaign & all I can say is, I wanna rip me some Decepticons!!! To Transformers fans out there, you owe it to yourself to play this game. Purge your memory of all the old crap Transformers games you’ve played. The ultimate one is here, NOW. Available on the PC, Xbox 360 & PS3. The Wii & Nintendo DS editions are different games so I can’t comment on those. Credits for the screenshots used in this post goes to IGN. You can check out the IGN PC review of the game here.

I have a new post with my final thoughts for this game here.

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