Transformers: Devastation
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Transformers: Devastation is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by PlatinumGames, released 6 October 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Transformers: Devastation is
Transformers: Devastation is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by PlatinumGames and released in 2015. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
"Optimus Prime and the Autobots face off against classic Decepticons when Megatron discovers a way to harness the enormous power of Plasma Energy to Cyberform Earth. Fueled by the Plasma Energy, the Decepticons are stronger and more powerful than ever. Can the Autobots stop them?"
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 30 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Transformers series
Transformers: Devastation is the 38th of 50 entries we hold in the Transformers series. It arrived 8 months after Transformers: Battle Tactics. The next entry was Transformers Rescue Bots: Hero Adventures in 2016. Its critic score of 75 is 14 points above the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at 93.
How it was received
Transformers: Devastation holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 89 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E4400 / AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 5600+, 2 GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT @ 512MB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 3870 @ 512MB or better. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 9GB.
What it launched against
Transformers: Devastation launched on 6 October 2015, within three weeks of Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Undertale, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Hearts of Stone, Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Transformers: Devastation yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 30
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