Destroying is more fun than protecting!
The best part about this game is the destruction. Everything breaks and breaks well. Buildings can be reduced to burning hulks with a barrage of fire from your weapons, or you can pound them to rubble all the same. Furthermore, the character models are quite detailed, the melee moves look cool, giving players the sense of being an unstoppable, multi-storey robot. Rampages are often the order of the day, and even pro-Autobot players can be tempted to shirk their duties and run or drive around, blowing up whatever they please between missions.
The missions themselves sometimes aren't as fun, and actual combat gets repetitive. A sizeable and strange flaw in the game is that all robotic enemies more powerful than the most basic grunt drone can "block", where they will create a shield around themselves, and your weapons fire bounces right off them. Therefore, you are reduced to using your three hit melee combos or throwing objects to take them out. What's the fun about big artillery when you can hardly use it on your foes?
The Decepticon campaign, while it is often more fun due to the destruction sprees involved, is more challenging than the Autobot one. You may find yourself growling in frustration as some seriously stacked enemy force pounds you into the pavement (one of the later levels where Blackout fights Ironhide is a prime example of this), or you could be driving or flying around randomly in frantic pursuit of certain foes or goals while timers count down in other annoying levels. Driving might be a challenge for newer gamers.
In robot mode, your characters control competently. There are multiple Autobots and Decepticons to play as throughout both campaigns, which are of decent length. Cutscenes look nice enough, and voice acting is good. Overall, this is an enjoyable experience for Transformers fans, and those who are new to the franchise should still enjoy going on the warpath as one of several imposing characters. Roll out!