Transformers Prime: The Game
Transformers: Prime lets fans play as their favorite Autobot characters and embark on an action-packed adventure to save the earth from the evil Megatron and his new secret weapon.
Transformers Prime: The Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by NOW Production, released 30 October 2012 on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Nintendo DS and Wii.
What Transformers Prime: The Game is
Transformers Prime: The Game is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by NOW Production and released in 2012. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Nintendo DS and Wii.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the single player campaign, players will step into the roles of OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, ARCEE, AUTOBOT RATCHET and BULKHEAD as they explore unique vistas all around the world with brawler-style combat and diverse driving sequences. Along the way, gamers cultivate friendships with Jack, Miko and Raf – the human characters from the show – as TEAM PRIME sets out to protect mankind and eliminate the DECEPTICONS once and for all. The game also features intense multiplayer modes that allow fans to choose from 11 different TRANSFORMERS characters from both factions.
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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Transformers series
Transformers Prime: The Game is the 32nd of 50 entries we hold in the Transformers series. The next entry was Transformers: Ultimate Battle Edition in 2013. Its critic score of 52 is 9 points below the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at 93.
How it was received
Transformers Prime: The Game holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 12% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Transformers Prime: The Game launched on 30 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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