Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark2014

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark

2014 Edge of Reality52Mediocre

Playtime

ShortIt typically takes about 8 hours to finish the game.

Playable on

Game modes

Details

Launch
June 24, 2014
Developer
Activision

Overview

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark - Launch Trailer

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is a third-person action game that connects the movie and Cybertron universes through a quest to secure the powerful Dark Spark artifact. Players control over 40 Transformers characters, freely switching between robot and vehicle forms while battling across Earth and Cybertron. The game features a shared progression system between its single-player campaign and four-player cooperative Escalation mode, where players unlock upgrades and rewards that carry over between both experiences.

Screenshots

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Reception

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark tries to coast on the goodwill established by the previous two games, but mishandles their gameplay concepts with a badly rushed execution. Boring level design, an awful framerate and a confusing story make this game a slog from start to finish.

The absence of the practiced creative hands of previous Transformers developer, High Moon Studios, is keenly felt as Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark has sadly turned out to be both the weakest Transformers licensed title and the most uninspired third-person shooter in sometime.

If you've just gone to see Age of Extinction and really want to play an awesome Transformers game, High Moon's past efforts are all you should even consider going for. Leave this pile of scrap out to rust until someone comes along to polish the franchise up again.

High Moon Studios has proved that a good Transformers game is very much within grasp, something that makes Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark's flaws harder to accept. The storytelling is sloppy, the set-pieces are repetitive - and in some cases stolen from past games - while the visuals are dated. It's redeemed only by enjoyable third-person shooter...

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark isn't an awful game, but it's a long way short of the bar set by High Moon.