Have You Played… Transformers: Fall of Cybertron?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.

Most Transformers games are awful, which isn’t enormously surprising given we’re talking about annual shooty-bang ties-in for bottomlessly stupid movies based on a toyline from the 1980s. But said toyline did inspire some excellent comics – including the current More Than Meets The Eye – so it’s not a given that retro-geek nostalgia about giant shapeshifting robots has to be appalling. Until this year’s cel-shaded brawler Devastation, Fall of Cybertron was about as good as got it (at least on PC – the old PS2 Transformers: Armada is extremely ambitious), in part because it embraced lore and classic characters in a way that earlier games hadn’t, but mostly because it managed a sense of scale. This last is particularly suprising given that FOC was not set on Earth and did not feature any tiny squishy humans to contrast against the Cybertronians’ immense scale.
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