Transformers Cybertron Series

Classic Shooter Memories Transformers Cybertron Series

As a kid of the 80’s I grew up with Transformers and I am just as big a fan today as I was back then! I just recently saw the new Bumblebee movie (which was awesome by the way) and thought that I would look back on the two best Transformers games.

Transformers War for Cybertron was released in 2010 and then followed up with Fall of Cybertron in 2012. If you want to get technical then there was kind of a third game, Rise of the Dark Spark also released in 2014.

The Cybertron games are truly fantastic. They are set on the Transformers homeworld of Cybertron and the idea of the games is that they are set around the time of the big Transformers civil war and the end days of Cybertron before the Transformers came to earth. There are a ton of nods to the G1 Transformers in these games, but in all honesty, even if you had never seen an episode of the original series you would still enjoy these games.

Both games are 3^rd person shooters. In the first game, you have a choice of a few different characters to play as on each level. The second game did not give you this freedom of choice. Each character has their own attacks, you have a basic attack, a stronger attack, melee attack and you can also transform. When you are transformed you can drive, but you can also change into combat mode and here the game still plays like a traditional 3^rd person shooter.

Each Transformer controls really well and the shooting and fighting has some real heft to it which is awesome. These games are very action packed and if you love a shooter that is just balls to the wall action you will really get into these games. I think that the second game, Fall of Cybertron is the better game, but if you ask me you need to play them both.

Rise of the Dark Spark is kind of weird in that it is a tie into the Age of Extinction movie, but at the same time, it is part of the game universe. I was not as into that, but I played a ton of the online mode, Escalation where you had to destroy wave after wave of enemies.

I highly suggest you guys at least try out the two Cybertron games. They can be picked up on PS3 and Xbox 360 pretty cheaply. These are two games that I would love to see Activision make a definitive version of for Xbox One and PS4.