Autobots, Plug And Play

Written by GL

I got a call from Kal-El in the later part of the evening yesterday. Transformers: The Game is out in stores for your cheap purchase.

Transformers: The Game is totally based on the 2007 film Transformers, released in North America in only this month. Console versions are being developed by Traveller's Tales for the PS2, Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and PC. A different PSP version was developed by Savage Entertainment.

Transformers: Autobots & Transformers: Decepticons are the Nintendo DS versions of Transfomers: The Game. Vicarious Visions, who was tasked with bringing Transformers: The Game to the Nintendo DS, chose to adapt the DS version into two separate games.

Transformers: Autobots follows the Autobots' perspective while Transformers: Decepticons follow the perspective of the Decepticons.

In Transformers: The Game, the player can choose which side to play, the Autobots or the Decepticons. Each side has a different story. Choosing the Autobots will follow the original movie's plotline while the Decepticons will have an alternate story. The game features different Transformers on each side with their own strengths, skills, and weaknesses.

There are different features on each platform. The PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC versions all have the same features. There's been confirmation that skins of G1 versions of the characters, including Starscream, Jazz and Optimus Prime, are included on the console versions.

The PS2 version has fewer while the PSP version is totally different. Instead, the game is a third-person shooter featuring one storyline both for the Autobots and Decepticons. Also, the players is able to play a total of 25 characters instead of 9.

GameStop/EB Games is selling an exclusive Transformers: The Game (Cybertron Edition) for the Xbox 360. This Collector's Edition contains an exclusive in-game Cybertron level, an exclusive making of the game DVD, an exclusive Transformers comic book by Simon Furman, and an exclusive Cybertron Edition box art. That sounds pretty cool.