This game improves on everything the first game set out to do and still holds up as an excellent 360-era third person shooter. You don't need to play the first one to play this one either. Still looks great since there's no human characters to date the game's visuals. Great for fans of Transformers and for fans of Xbox 360-style linear cinematic action games. Makes you really feel like you're Megatron/Starscream/Optimus Prime/Grimlock/etc.