I'm not the biggest transformer fan out there, only had a mild interest in the franchise as a child but I found myself really, really enjoying this game. While I can appreciate some of the criticisms levied against the game (levels go on for too long, enemy variety is lacking) I also feel that the game is pretty well made. Level design is decent and rarely repeats, the action feels great and the game looks really sharp (playing on the PC version and the game can often look incredible, especially now the FPS cap has been removed via user mods). But much more than this, the multiplayer is kind of fantastic. 2 second respawn time means that it's really fast paced and the levelling up system, while ripped straight out of CoD, works really well as an incentive to just play one more match.   
 
Also, I just can't agree with the notion that the vehicle controls just aren't that great - sure, they're a bit floaty, but you can pull off some very precise, very cool moves if you know how. It also completely changes the multiplayer dynamic and makes it feel so fresh, despite a variety of 'borrowed' ideas from other games. Not once do you get that walking trudge to the action so common in action games as you can just speed off in vehicle mode.
 
Skip to 19:30 for a really positive transformers discussion that I feel really hits things right on the mark: http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/705944/Feedback----Transformers-War-For-Cybertron-PlayStation-Plus-And-Beyond-Good--Evil-2.html 
 
I just feel that the guys at high moon aren't getting the credit they deserve - The Bourne Conspiracy was a better than average movie tie in and this game does a lot of things better than I'd expected it to. Anyone else feel the same? It may not reach a lofty 9/10 level of quality but I do feel that it's being sold a little short by a lot of critics (there's a massive disparity between the user scores, sitting at 90, and the average reviewer score at 78 on metacritic which I don't necessarily feel is down to hardcore transformers fans ignoring a lot of the game's issues - I'm a pretty harsh critic myself and often feel like I was playing a completely different game to other people based on what I've read).

Why did you mention "The Boune Conspiracy?" You make it sound like this is a Movie tie in game. 

" Why did you mention "The Boune Conspiracy?" You make it sound like this is a Movie tie in game.  "

"Why did you mention "The Boune Conspiracy?" You make it sound like this is a Movie tie in game.  "

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

"Why did you mention "The Boune Conspiracy?" You make it sound like this is a Movie tie in game.  "

I am also puzzled by this inclusion. "

" @RVonE said:

" @The_Laughing_Man said:

"Why did you mention "The Boune Conspiracy?" You make it sound like this is a Movie tie in game.  "

I am also puzzled by this inclusion. "

Maybe he thinks the game is a movie tie in.   I am yet to see a decent movie tie in game.  "

" I agree with Jeff on the jet thing. They don't behave like jets but like hover craft or some variant of that. While I think the game is fine, I also think that there are far superior thrid-person shooters on the market. 3 stars sounds about right. "

" I agree with Jeff on the jet thing. They don't behave like jets but like hover craft or some variant of that. While I think the game is fine, I also think that there are far superior thrid-person shooters on the market. 3 stars sounds about right. "

Red Dead Redemption..? Technically a third person shooter, as is GTA IV and Uncharted 2. Although the latter is not on the 360. I probably enjoyed Army of Two the Fortieth day as much as transformers, both were meh. And at least I got to play Ao2 with a friend.

I'm going to apologize in advance for being fully 2 years late to the party on this but I have a criticism I haven't seen posted anywhere else.

This game looks terrible. I mean really, really bad. And I'm a Transformers apologist to no end. But between unbelievable jaggies on the title screen to the dull color scheme throughout the first 4 missions, I don't know that I've played a game on 360 that looks worse. I did download the game as opposed to buying the disc but I can't imagine that is accounting for the poor presentation.

@JRock3x8 said:

I'm going to apologize in advance for being fully 2 years late to the party on this but I have a criticism I haven't seen posted anywhere else.

This game looks terrible. I mean really, really bad. And I'm a Transformers apologist to no end. But between unbelievable jaggies on the title screen to the dull color scheme throughout the first 4 missions, I don't know that I've played a game on 360 that looks worse. I did download the game as opposed to buying the disc but I can't imagine that is accounting for the poor presentation.

I recently played the disc version and it looked really awful as well. I guess the PC version was the way to go for these games. The sequel looks a bit better, but overall it's a really poor looking series.