Transformers: War for Cybertron

What can I say; this game is finally the Transformers game the fans have been waiting for. They way I see it there are three main aspects to the game.

CAMPAIGN
You play as either the Autobots OR the Decepticons in two separate campaign modes, that actually run at different points in the story (e.g. you are not playing the same missions from both points of view). You cannot play co-op offline, but if you are connected to the internet, then the campaign mode can be fun in either co-op or competitive fashion. I'm not going to give any the story to anyone but what I will say is there are various points in the story that really impressed me including references to Transformers: The Movie (the proper one) that was put there for the fans. Very good campaign but quite short. There is reply value there in the going back on hard mode (along with accompanying trophies) but that was a bit of a let down. The boss battles are epic, especially those at the end of each campaign!

8/10

MULTIPLAYER
Imagine COD MW2 only with Transformers and you pretty much have a picture of what this is like. There are similar modes including Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and my favourite, Conquest! You play as 4 classes (not the actual transformers from the campaign but you can edit them to look like Prime, Shockwave etc). There are 4 classes Soldier - slow but powerful, Scientist - quick but weak, Leader - by far the best and Scout - sneaky cloaker. Each class has a series of perks and abilities. There a quite a few maps from the campaign all presented well and fun to play on. Some people have moaned about the lag for this game but I have not experienced this. There were some issues about losing experience when the host quits the match but now you keep it all if they decide they have had enough thanks to the new patch.

8/10

ESCALATION
Nazi Zombies but with Transformers. You and up to 3 other friends (or randoms) try to survive endless waves of opposing transformers. Choose from the actual transformers in the game (and a few others if you get the DLC) such as Prime, Air Raid, Ironhide, Megatron, Soundwave, Starscream etc - all with different abilities to help you last longer. You gain points for every kill and you can use these points to buy health, ammo, better weapons, shield, grenades from the 'vending machines' posted around the maps. You can choose to pool your points together in order to open doors (as these can be expensive alone) and teamwork is the key. The best part of the game by far

9/10

OVERALL
The presentation is excellent but as with most games there are a few glitches here and there. The sound is great; they really nailed the transformation noise! Would have been ace if they managed to get Stan Bush in there somewhere. They game has trophy support. If you are an avid trophy collector like me, they there are some to get in all three modes. The campaign ones are easy but the multiplayer/escalation ones will keep you playing for some time!

8.5/10 - 'Transform and roll out' to the shops and buy this (oh dear)

My son loves this game and all that is transformers as do i. Price was great for the game and just right. if all games were sold at this rate everyone would be happy.

Ill start this with some very minor positives before delving into the heart of the negatives. Hurrah.
Positives: the cutscene graphixs look great, lots robots, lotsa fighting. You load it up and are treated to two epic looking cutscenes, "great" you think, "this will be a good game". no. unfortunatley it wont =/.
(thats really it for the positives btw o_O...)

So lets assume two things, one, you got this because it had robots, two you got this because it had full campaign co-op.
Negatives:
-The game graphixs, are very meh, they arent the worst ive seen, but they are in no way the best, they work, and wouldnt really get a mention, but compared to the cutscenes they look shoddy and boring.

Campaign Negatives:
-When trying to play a random online game you have NO choice at all, you will be thrown into a random level, with random players, it could be as was my case a level very late in the game right before a boss fight, if you dont like your weapon? tough. If you wanted a different level on easy? tough, you can try hosting your own game, but good luck getting players.
- Offline. AI bots will not follow you, and will rarely heal you, the one time one healed me was when i didnt need it and during a boss fight. If you are playing for trophies (more on that later -.-) then one of the boss levels is made so much harder due to AI running away from you and not helping, this game is aimed at people with two buddies in mind, not for soloists and not for random onliners.

MP Negatives:
Lets start, by stating that this is, b far, the single worst mp ive had the misfortune to play.
servers are a HUGE part of this.
-You get 0 choice as to what lobby you join, now you might think "well thats no real big deal is it?" to an insane degree. You WILL get placed in a game where people either have so much better internet than you you lag, or where one jerk has so bad internet EVERYONE lags. Now, this results in either you jumping all around the screen, popping up at random places in the map and having 0 control over your actions, or your enemies teleporting around the place. Now, in most cases this results in them shooting the crap out of you when you literally cant see them on your screen, or you being unable to target them and as such dying, as they do not experience the lag.
Now your thinking "hold on, this cant happen THAT often", im afraid that it does. Ive played games where ive quit out of sheer insanity of lag, to try and find another game, and be thrown right back in, THIS IS NOT FUN. And, when this doesnt happen you could literally wait 5 minutes just searching for a game, sometimes it will close the search box after 4 seconds for no reason, sometimes it will just keep looking, yet if you close the search and start a new one it will state there are 3 games available, but you dont get to choose which, oh no if you do get in it will be the worst it can possibly make it. Sometimes as ive experienced several times today it will simply open the search box to close it straight away, you cannot fix this.
The MP itself is boring, boring classes and folk with better internet win. you cannot report this, you cannot complain. Someone will usually win with 90% of the kills, taking no damage and kill everyone with a single mg round each (and no really, this has happened so many times...). Now the cynic in me, tells me these are jerks that KNOW they are causing annoyance and anger in people that want trophies, and dont care and continue playing, ive had the misfortune to encounter several on a daily basis.

Now you might think ok so ive got a game, no ones lagging that badly, im doing decent. Hey,guess what. It will kick you. It randomly kicks me from 80% of the games, either that or "The leader has quit". And with no server migration you're back on the main menu, but the search is MUCH more likely to be broked now, have fun ^_^.

Not only this it takes an age to get the mp trophies, you just want it to end, but it keeps going... total grindfest made much,much worse.

Special mention: Not sure if this is just mine but i cant see how it could be. the ONLY mode i could pick is Team Death MAtch, i try to load any of the other generic modes and it crashes my PS3.

Whatever your worst mp exerience is, this is so much worse.

Escalation: Hoarde mode with robots.
Negatives: in one game of this, 70% of my kills were stolen by one player, 20% by another. Without exagerating it gave one guy the majority of the kills in the game, iregardless as to how many times we shot them he almost always somehow got the kill, and as such hoarded all the points. making it MUCH harder to play, this mode is not fun, when everyone dies it boots you from the game, or sometimes simply to the menu, which has very similar problems to the mp. People play this for the trophies, that is all. It MIGHT be remotley decent with 3 buddies 4 mics and similar internets, this was not the case.

Mute: Yeah, just a note, no mute controls. Had one idiort spout gibberish for about 20 minutes in an escalation game, eventually i stepped in and told her(could be a 7 year old boy idk) to sthu and turned my chat volume down, which was on my headphone, they continued talking for about 20 minutes straight, sucks to be the other team mates.

In short DO NOT BUY THIS. The sheer fact amazon are still charging £18 for this is insane, the only reason you should buy this, is if you yourself are making a game and want to see how not to do mp.
I initially was not going to buy the sequal due to no co-op, now thanks to replaying to mop up trophies I will wait much longer.

Anyone that denies ANY of the statements i have made either work for Highmoon, are a complete fanboy, have never played it , are a troll , want attention or havent played any other game in their life (or did co-op campaign with 3 buddies, didnt touch mp and didnt try to find a campaign game online, any unhelpful review votes reflect this). A Disgusting Basterdisation of a game.