OMGP: Transformers (2007)

The Obligatory Movie Game Podcast

Riding the coattails of the Transformers: Rise of the Beasts hype, Devon and Hudson sit down to talk about the first Bayformers movie game from 2007. The game is pretty bare bones for releasing at the end of the PS2’s life cycle, but it’s still satisfying to kick the crap out of endless waves of enemy drones before transforming into a vehicle and burning rubber in search of the next scrap. Naturally the game focuses more on the Cybertronians than on the humans, choosing to elaborate on the off-screen robot action (often in laughable ways) rather than putting the player in any of the humans’ shoes, and it’s nice to see a little more of the Autobots and Decepticons. There are undoubtedly better Transformers video games out there now (and the PS2 Transformers game based on the Armada series was actually pretty great), but there weren’t as many back in 2007, and this one gave a new generation of Transformers fans more of the over-the-top action from the Michael Bay blockbuster
0:00:00 Intro
0:04:44 IMDB Dive
0:09:37 Where We're Coming From
0:17:39 Plot
0:40:19 Time Machine Time
0:44:31 Plot Cont'd
1:11:25 Characters
1:23:12 Setting
1:28:02 Rate, Recap and Recommend