I felt like I needed a new game. I was at Best Buy. I saw the new Transformers game on the shelf. I thought it might be fun. I plunked down my hard earned money without consulting a review.

I made a mistake.

It blows. It’s not the graphics, the sound, or the repetitive gameplay. It’s the stupid camera.

It’s one of those games where you’d imagine that having a camera follow along behind you would just work, and be simple and reasonable. After all, Mario 64 had this kind of a camera interface, and it worked rather well. Transformers has a camera which seems pathologically committed to viewing your robot from precisely the wrong angle. It seems almost designed to make it impossible to see where you are going and what is attacking you at all times.

I’d give it a 2/10. Don’t waste your time or money. Not even worth a rental.

[tags]Wii,Transformers[/tags]