Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 12 expert reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

7
Average:

0
Bad:

2

Pros:

Flight levels are great fun.
Several sequences make you feel remarkably powerful.
Roller coaster of a final level.

Cons:

Unfocused campaign is too often more exciting to watch than to play.
Final encounter is a joke.

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Last revision on March 28, 2016

Reviewers Liked

Flight levels are great fun
Several sequences make you feel remarkably powerful
Roller coaster of a final level
Strong cooperative and competitive play

Reviewers Didn't Like

Unfocused campaign is too often more exciting to watch than to play
Final encounter is a joke
Level design at odds with shooting model

Expert reviews and ratings

Don’t play this game because you want a realistic action shooter devoid of all those stereotypical “finding 85 hidden things per level” bits. Play this game because you love Transformers and you want to experience a new story-with-shooting that’s presented enjoyably, not excellently.

By MaximumPC on September 17, 2012

Inspired by the 1980s Transformers cartoons, rather than the insipid Michael Bay films, Fall of Cybertron is a love-letter to the shape-shifting robots and a thoroughly entertaining third-person shooter to boot. While Bay's vapid adaptation drained...

By telegraph.co.uk on September 10, 2012

Transformers: War For Cybertron was the game all fans knew was possible but had never really happened: a good Transformers game (the PS2 one was okay, but not great). What is it about London developers realizing long-crushed dreams of fanboys...

By Strategy Informer on August 30, 2012

As a child of the 70s and 80s, I love the Transformers brand, especially anything related to the original Generation 1 storyline. And it is that fact that makes me even sadder at the effort High Moon put into Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.From...

By technobuffalo.com on August 29, 2012

It's exactly what meets the eye - which is to say a good-hearted festival of a game about talking robots shooting and smashing each other, shouting itself raw-throated in joy at the toys it gets to play with, but no more than that.

By EuroGamer on August 24, 2012

I've never been a big fan of the Transformers line of video games. In fact, I never thought they were a good idea in the first place. Their sloppy mechanics, glitch systems, and laughable stories made me feel like everything I loved in my childhood...

By Cheat Code Central on August 21, 2012

Fall of Cybertron doesn't pack the same “Oh my god, someone finally made a good Transformers game!” punch as its predecessor, but it's an entirely worthy successor no Optimus Prime fan should pass up.

By IGN on August 21, 2012

If you’re a Transformers superfan looking for more giant robot action or just looking for a fun shooter experience, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will not disappoint.

By GamesRadar on August 21, 2012

I just got the PC version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron when it unlocked on Steam today, so the review will be a couple of days in coming. While the patient among you wait, though, the impulse buyers out there can at least go in knowing what kind...

By GameSpy on August 20, 2012

When I first embraced the idea of playing a game that showed a part of my childhood in a new way, I was torn. While I am not the largest fan of the Transformers series, I do enjoy the movies. When Transformers: War for Cybertron came out we were...

By gotgame.com on October 27, 2012

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