You've Got the Touch!

You've got the power....yeah!

*Ahem* Anyway. I swore that I wouldn't purchase the recently released "Transformers: War for Cybertron" until I had either played it, or at least wait until after Chicago Comic-Con. Yeah. You can see where this is going. I swear I was going to hold myself to it, but I was at a local(ish) used game store and there it was, all by its lonesome, calling to me. Also, it was only thirty, half of what I would've paid for the game new. So there was that.

Before I could even play the game, which my girlfriend graciously allowed me to do (she picked up both Burton/Keaton Batman films from the same place), I had to install updates.

That is something that has appeared only in this generation of console gaming: updates (and installs, but more on that in a moment), and there is nothing that infuriates me more than getting a shiny new game and then having to wait for the updates to download and install. I also hate having to wait for a game to install itself to the PS3's harddrive. Also, I don't know where all my storage space went, since I have a 60gb model, and can only account for about half the drive being taken up by games and demos and what not (I don't have movies and the only music I have is from a Linkin Park concert I went to in '08). So where'd it all go?

So after almost an hour of updating and freeing up space from my drive (I deleted the game data for Oblivion, since I tried it once and didn't much care for it), I finally get rewarded for my time with an awesome intro voiced over by Peter Cullen (the voice of Optimus Prime from what is now dubbed Generation 1) in which he explains that there is a War for Cybertron (ah, so that's why it's called that). I decided to start from the beginning rather from the middle. The Decepticon campaign begins with Chapter One and the Autobot's start on Chapter Five or Six. After playing for about ten minutes, you know what I noticed?
That my favorite parts of the old cartoons is running out of ammo every twenty seconds.

That's sarcasm, by the way. Also, I don't really like the voices. Soundwave sounds like, well, Soundwave. But Megatron doesn't sound right and Brawl and Barricade (the Deceptichumps that hang around with Megatron for at least the first chapter) just sound...wrong. They don't sound like Decepticons. They almost sound like slightly more evil versions of the main character's best friends from a Judd Apatow film.

Overall, only about an hour or so in, but I like it, I guess. Probably should have started with Prime's campaign. Then again, who knows if I would've ever played through Megatron's...