WTMG’s Thomas Medina: “Transformers: Battlegrounds is a basic turn-based strategy game, no more, no less. The campaign is decent, if lacking in overarching mechanics that make XCOM so addicting. Likewise the multiplayer is fun, but the omission of any versus modes is kind of bizarre. The gameplay is vanilla, but still fun and the use of environmental effects is genuinely interesting. It’s the kind of game that’s fun, has nothing overtly wrong with it, but just lacks something what would make it whole. A more ambitious campaign experience, more playable characters, versus multiplayer modes, all these and more would have gone a great deal to making the game stand out better. Still as it is, it’s more than enough for any Transformers fan although others will probably just find the game lacking.”
