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Transformers Animated: The Game

Based on the hit television series, Transformers Animated: The Game delivers an exciting action-adventure experience. As they blast through Decepticon-controlled hoverbots, players must solve challenging…

30 21 October 2008

Transformers Animated: The Game is a platform developed by Artificial Mind and Movement, released 21 October 2008 on Nintendo DS.

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What Transformers Animated: The Game is

Transformers Animated: The Game is a platform game developed by Artificial Mind and Movement and released in 2008. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Based on the hit television series, Transformers Animated: The Game delivers an exciting action-adventure experience. As they blast through Decepticon-controlled hoverbots, players must solve challenging team-building puzzles and race through futuristic Detroit roadways, dodging on-coming traffic while seamlessly morphing between robot and vehicle form. Fans take control of all their favorite Autobot characters, including Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Prowl, as they work together to reclaim the lost fragments of the Allspark before the Decepticons intercept it and claim Cybertron as their own.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Transformers Animated: The Game holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 35 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Transformers Animated: The Game launched on 21 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and Gears of War 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, Gears of War 2.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Quick answers

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When did Transformers Animated: The Game come out?
Transformers Animated: The Game was released on 21 October 2008 for Nintendo DS.

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