Transformers Autobots review DS

Transformers, robots in disguise... Hot on the heels of the summer blockbuster Transformers movie comes Transformers Autobots the video game. In Transformers: Autobots for the Nintendo DS, you'll find yourself desperately fighting to save the Earth from the altogether more destructive Decepticons. You'll get to roam the city completing missions, using a variety of robots and vehicles. Will Transformers: Autobots live up to the hype surrounding the movie and stand on its own as a game worth playing? Read our Transformers review for Nintendo DS now to find out more!

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Transformers review for Nintendo DS
Transformers, robots in disguise, is a line forever etched in our minds – so deeply it must make the advertisers of Southern Comfort (among a billion other consumer products) sick with envy. Sadly, “I’ll have a So-Co please,” doesn’t have the same ring to it, and Southern Comfort doesn’t have the same appeal now as giant robots that turn into Datsuns (or cassette recorders) did back in the ‘80s. Now there’s a new metal-stomping movie based on our favourite robot cross breeds, it’s predictably the film licence grabbing Activision who are responsible for turning it into the sort of gaming experience we want. Going on a vague description of the game – a free-roaming GTA-a-like with robots instead of drug cartels – it sounds like just that.
We should explain here that there are two versions of Transformers on DS – Transformers: Autobots and Transformers: Decepticons. As you’d expect, both versions look and control identically, but there’s more to them than just different looking bots and vehicles. With the Autobots trying to save Earth and the Decepticons hell-bent on destroying it the games call for different missions. Which version you go for depends if you’d rather be protecting the little people or blowing them up – personally, we got more out of flattening them, but it has been a stressful month.

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