Remember Rock Lords? Back in the Eighties, some idiot at Tonka thought, 'hey kids don't want robots that turn into exciting stuff (like planes, cars, giant purple ray guns, etc) they want robots that turn into rocks. They were wrong. Despite a movie tie in with the Gobots, and a huge marketing campaign, it couldn't hide the fact that these looked like robots that turned into a pile a turd.

Why's this Eighties pop culture lesson relevant? Well turning robots into a pile of turd is exactly what Activision have done with their new game, Transformers. I reviewed it on the x-box 360, but I'd rather have had root canal surgery. I should declare right now, I'm a huge Transformers fan. I have toys, dvd cartoons, comics, the works. On paper I should love this game, I loved Atari's Armada game of a few years back, hell, I even liked the ZX Spectrum Transformers game from the eighties and that was really bad, but at least it had decent collisoion detection.

So if a fan like me hates this, what hope is there? Well giant marketing campaign and fanboy idiots on the web who think this game is great might help, but don't be fooled, it sucks. What makes it so bad? To quote Brodie when he meets Stan Lee in Mallrats 'let's do the list';