Transformers: Dark of the Moon - Stealth Force Edition

Blowing up cars is entertaining, but the game somehow manages to fumble this core concept with way too many irritations: dull graphics and repetitive missions and objectives are bad enough, but even they could be overlooked if the game's control scheme wasn't so bad. Transformers: DotM - SFE is over in just about four hours, but after struggling with its cumbersome controls, you may be thankful to say goodbye to this scrapheap.

Even worse, there's no multiplayer to speak of, a puzzling decision that makes the vehicular focus even more pointless. We'd love to wirelessly destroy friends while exploring a variety of different arenas, but so much for that.

The only thing it has going for it is the controls. [Sept 2011, p.92]

Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition should be avoided entirely.

The latest installment of Transformers that appears the first time on the 3DS is horrible. There is everything wrong and bad you can imagine. Only graphics and sound are okay, but everything else is a pure joke.

The biggest problem with this is the controls.

Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition starts out as a bad vehicle combat game and never transforms into anything else.

Even if you are the most hardcore Transformers fan, this is a game to pass up. If you're a Stealthforcer fan, then by all means, get this game– I'm sure you'll love it.

It is remarkable in its ability to make five minutes seem like five hours. Pickings might be slim on both the Wii and 3DS this summer, but Transformers Stealth Force Edition isn't diversion. It's abuse.

Games like this make me wish I could score them just by looking at the box and throwing it in the trash, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3DS nonetheless managed to fail my lowest expectations.

Quotation forthcoming.