Transformers Devastation
The Transformers games haven’t exactly had the best track record. Much like the movies and cartoons themselves, the quality of the games wildly fluctuates between being solid (if disposable) fun like War for Cybertron and just really, really bad, like Rise of the Dark Spark. So when Activision randomly announced a new Transformers title by Platinum, the guys who created Bayonetta, people weren’t entirely expecting something to blow them away.
As it turns out, Transformers Devastation ended up being a helluva lot of fun. It combined the things Platinum is best known for (fun, twitch gameplay) with the nostalgia factor that Transformers fans haven’t felt since… well, a pretty long time. Even when things are going off all around you, the action manages to be coherent in a way the more recent movies can only dream of, once you’re prepared to wrestle with the camera a bit. Things can get a bit repetitive, but like the robots themselves, this seemingly random game ended up being awesome in disguise.
