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xyzzysqrlWith a title like that, I mean, I don't know what I expected. But... mmh. How to put it...
Where War for Cybertron could've been a few episodes of the series, maybe one of those five-part events they only do for really special occasions, Fall of Cybertron was Transformers: The Movie. (Not the Bay ones. 86.) Not so high in the death toll, but certainly big on Emotional Moments and Feeling Things About Robots.
... I mean. A group of desperate people trying to escape a dying planet in the grip of a fuel crisis while insane self-declared leaders run rampant backstabbing and sabotaging each other... is it possible for a video game about robots to hit the "Too Real" box?
Oddly, in one very unexpected case, the game hit home strong. Grimlock, who I had previously taken for a goofy gag character, gets a whole emotional arc of RAGE and caring and revenge, stopped from being a God of War game only by the fact that he has a caring team working around him. I love Team Dinobot and I want them to be a happy family together.
Gameplay-wise it is much more a Modern Shooter than the last one, full of Cinematic Moments and Pushing X To Interact. This basically meant I died any time I walked more than three feet from a wall, so I set the game to Easy and just kinda rolled with that.
So... I felt like this was good and all, but it made me sad in some unexpected ways. Part of what I -want- out of Transformers is... well, the eighties cartoon version. A bunch of action figures showing off their One Special Move while quipping at each other. You take that into a more realistic venue and it starts to feel a little forced. The quips start coming between death tolls of thousands or hundred-thousands and that seems...
Something. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with how I feel on this one.
I dunno. Maybe I'll look into Netflixing Transformers Prime. I hear it's a good series.
Where War for Cybertron could've been a few episodes of the series, maybe one of those five-part events they only do for really special occasions, Fall of Cybertron was Transformers: The Movie. (Not the Bay ones. 86.) Not so high in the death toll, but certainly big on Emotional Moments and Feeling Things About Robots.
... I mean. A group of desperate people trying to escape a dying planet in the grip of a fuel crisis while insane self-declared leaders run rampant backstabbing and sabotaging each other... is it possible for a video game about robots to hit the "Too Real" box?
Oddly, in one very unexpected case, the game hit home strong. Grimlock, who I had previously taken for a goofy gag character, gets a whole emotional arc of RAGE and caring and revenge, stopped from being a God of War game only by the fact that he has a caring team working around him. I love Team Dinobot and I want them to be a happy family together.
Gameplay-wise it is much more a Modern Shooter than the last one, full of Cinematic Moments and Pushing X To Interact. This basically meant I died any time I walked more than three feet from a wall, so I set the game to Easy and just kinda rolled with that.
So... I felt like this was good and all, but it made me sad in some unexpected ways. Part of what I -want- out of Transformers is... well, the eighties cartoon version. A bunch of action figures showing off their One Special Move while quipping at each other. You take that into a more realistic venue and it starts to feel a little forced. The quips start coming between death tolls of thousands or hundred-thousands and that seems...
Something. I'm having a hard time coming to grips with how I feel on this one.
I dunno. Maybe I'll look into Netflixing Transformers Prime. I hear it's a good series.
