The Transformers Movie Videogame Doesn’t Make Me Want to Beat Puppies to Death… Yet
Actually, it looks pretty good. Like I said before, it’s appears to be a Transformers version of Virtual On, which I always thought was a helluva fun arcade game. The environments look nice and destructible, and it appears — although this is just a guess from the short clip of the jet Transformer (Starscream?) flying into the Transformer on the aircraft carrier — you can attack in your vehicle mode as well, so it might have more uses than just running the hell away. Plus, I’m sure some of the G1 styles are unlockable at some point. Now, I won’t be buying it, so I really don’t care about any of this. But I did want to have one final, semi-positive Transformers-related post before I get back to hating on it.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.