By Alec Meer on June 25th, 2009.
I’m upset no publications asked me to review this. DON’T THEY KNOW WHAT I AM? Still, it does mean I haven’t had to stick with an experience that’s roughly analogous to someone repeatedly poking a pen into my eye while muttering things I can’t quite hear. Instead, just an hour – well, more like two by my count – has been enough to form a staunch opinion about this robo-movie tie-in.
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By Alec Meer on May 28th, 2009.
As we gear up for E3mania next week (our own queen of hearts John Walker will be out in LA attending the show for us), the video trailers will come thick and fast. With Kieron on holiday and Jim elsewhere on business for much of the next seven days, it falls to me to post most of the damn things. Oh, the terrible responsiblity. Will I stand or fall? Let’s have a dry run now, with new footage of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game. Will I offer commentary upon it, or will I simply lazily paste the embed code and leave it at that? Only one way to find out…
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By Alec Meer on April 15th, 2009.
Robots! Giant robots! Giant robots that turn into cars! If there’s a property more ideally suited to action videogaming than Transformers then I’ll eat my decepti-hat. Apart from Transmorphers, obviously.
Sadly, them robots in disguise haven’t been treated well by gaming, with the exception of the fairly pleasing Transformers Armada PS2 game a while back. The only PC game was 2007′s abominable tie-in to Michael Bay’s Transformers movie. Truly horrible, despite being handled by Traveller’s Tales, they of Lego Star Wars fame. With a second movie due this Summer, there is, inevitably, a second game. Will lessons have been learned? Could we, finally, maybe, oh lord please, get a decent Transformers game?
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