Like the other movie games, this game is a third person shooter with vehicle mechanics. The controls involve 2 different weapon choices, close quarters combat options, and techniques you can do in vehicle mode. Compared to 2007 and dark of the moon this game has the most varied variety of gameplay in a transformers game that I've played so far. However, said gameplay is pretty clunky and stiff at times, close range attacks don't feel great to use at all, and when you shoot you also for some reason fight with the camera to aim, not to mention that using the special vehicle attacks was pretty much just second thought and I never used them unless there was an extra task for them to be used.

When playing through the campaign you are pretty much limited to the characters that the game provides you with, so in the autobot campaign you only use Breakaway (Aka the jet transformer), in only a couple of missions until you unlock a certain mission that allows you to play as anyone in any area. And that being said not every character is fun to play either. Breakaway and Grindor are very clunky characters with their weapon choices, due to the cool down on weapons which force you to change that weapon. Cooldowns, boosts, and health can be upgraded by the energon you collect through the levels but it's a slow process and the payoff doesn't feel grand.

The levels themselves are basically just fetch quests involving different kinds of missions, for example there are tower defense missions, destroying bot missions, and capture the flag type of missions to name a few. Both autobot and decepticon campaigns end in the same boss battle with the fallen for some strange reason. Both campaigns are only slightly different with the autobot campaign having a devestator fight (which was a solid fight), and the decepticon campaign only having mini boss battles with autobots. The gameplay in general overall feels tedious and dragged out at times and I actually prefer dark of the moon over this game despite its short game span. Minor stuff like the cheat codes and the characters compliments depending on how well you do in a mission are very cute touches to the game as well. There's alot to talk about, but not much to say about this game.

It's fine...there's a few neat things you can do in this game but it's a bit buggy and it's obviously rushed. Each faction generally had similar missions, but they atleast had some few unique ones to vary the gameplay a little.

The gameplay itself was ok, its very clunky and alot of the debris gets in the way when you're trying to kill bots. It's extremely annoying especially in car mode, you will constantly be derailed by police or any other form of debris everywhere you go during the missing and you will fail it multiple times. The driving itself is perfectly aceptable and its incorporated into the game quite decently.
Combat is also very clunky, guns do absolutely nothing to opposing bots as they will completely block them. So you really just mash a bunch until you kill something, because debris is everywhere as well. They atleast introduce different kinds of enemies but they are frustrating to kill especially in smaller spaces where you can't run outside the misson areas where the game wants you to stay in.

Autobot story ark was pretty easy, only failed a couple of times due to what I said prior. The car chase with jazz was probably the best part of the whole thing, the megatron boss fight was just disappointing.

The decepticon story ark was alot more enjoyable, since you're allowed to destroy buildings for the mission, as well as have moments of flying in vehicle mode for most of it. The amount of enjoyability was pretty consistent throughout. And the optimus fight was slightly more interesting

I have a few nitpicks that I would like to add as well, the game seems pretty rushed. There's moments where ironhides design completely changes in the cutscenes and ingame. Also megatron gets a line that isn't voiced by frank welker instead its voiced by some intern and I thought that was a bit funny. Not sure why thats in the game. The g1 cosmetics are also a nice touch.

Overall this game gets a 5.2/10, not perfect at all it's very frustrating with it's mechanics, and the cutscenes don't really tell a story that well. But its not all bad either. I cannot say I recommend this game to any fans of the movies unless you want to fight bots in cybertron.

Pretty solid game, however pretty short. I was able to finish thing game in about 5-7 hours, thats also with a few deaths in between chapters. Alot of the bosses in this game were pretty unique, personal favorite was the stratosphere boss fight. However these boss fights after the ironhide chapter tend to drag not just because of the gameplay itself but because most of them take a while to defeat (stratosphere, starscream, and shockwave. are good examples). The chapters including lazerbeak and mirage were the most fun.

Gameplay itself is pretty fun and enjoyable and it's easy to get used to, every character has unique abilities that can enhance the gameplay every chapter. Unlike starscream and megatron who play absolute ass due to their size and abilities. Megatron has an ability where he sucks the energon out of an npc and gains hp from it, and as you can tell, it sucks.

If I were to rate it out of 10 it would be a 6.5/10
Would I recommend it? Kinda not sure, this is my first impression on a transformers high moon game, Its pretty decent as is