To add to the frustration, many obstacles in your way seem to weigh three pounds or less, as civilian cars fly through the air after colliding with you, but trees and other seemingly destructible objects are as solid as a mountain. Optimius Prime just blew through eight cars and trucks on his way to his mission objective, but now he’ll spend precious minutes backing up and away from a tree. You end up failing seemingly easy missions because of handling and physics issues like these and only the most patient will resist the urge to snap the game disc in two. In fact, there should be an Achievement for leaving the game in your 360 instead of flinging it at your cat.

Fans of Transformers: The Movie should spend the rental fee for this game on another ticket at the movie theater. Fans of Transformers the cartoon should pick up the much-better PS2 title from 2004, based on the original series. Fans of movie tie-in games should stop reading, right this moment, and find something more productive to do with their lives than playing disappointing, half-baked games based off entertaining blockbusters. Under no circumstances should Transformers: The Game be purchased at full price. The only thing being transformed by the game is quality free time into rage and frustration. Or, put another way, if you play Transformers: The Game, the Decepticons have won.