A more ambitious campaign experience, more playable characters, versus multiplayer modes, all these and more would have gone a great deal to making the game stand out better. It’s the kind of game that’s fun, has nothing overtly wrong with it, but just lacks something what would make it whole. The gameplay is vanilla, but still fun and the use of environmental effects is genuinely interesting. Likewise the multiplayer is fun, but the omission of any versus modes is kind of bizarre. The campaign is decent, if lacking in overarching mechanics that make XCOM so addicting. Transformers: Battlegrounds is a basic turn-based strategy game, no more, no less. Sadly there’s not a whole lot of playable characters available either, but the major players are here at least. There’s some minor loud-out customization unlocked as you progress, but nothing serious or cosmetic. Likewise, each character plays differently, with their own weapons, specials, and ultimates. They do a great deal to make each location play differently which is always nice.
Battles are usually quick, with interesting use of environmental effects and destructible environments.
Which is probably a good thing, as Narcos: Rise of the Cartels showed what happens when you meddle with things that work. It’s standard XCOM styled gameplay, a perfect example of not reinventing the wheel. The multiplayer modes do what they say, with new maps and bot load-out options unlocked as you progress through the campaign.Įach character has a single ability, but it can be overcharged using action points to deal additional damage or effects. The campaign is of decent length with variety in locations and enemies, and while the story will win no awards, it’s fun Transformers.
Which is a huge missed opportunity in my opinion. One thing to note is that they are all playable in co-op or solo, with no versus modes. Then there’s a few local multiplayer modes such as Capture the Flag and Survival. The campaign takes you across various locales from the Transformers universe as you battle evil Deceptions as the valiant Autobots. And all in all, it basically lived up to my expectations, even if I hoped for more. So I was pretty excited for Transformers: Battlegrounds. But no one had made a Transformers strategy of any flavor before. A personal favorite of mine being the Nintendo DS ports of the first Transformers movie game, which were open world RPGs. There’s the amazing War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron of course, but there have been others. Why not?Īs far as licensed games go, Transformers has fared better than others. So instead of just having you play as Teletraan, the game has you playing as a random human who is being carried around by it.
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