History YMMV / TransformersDevastation

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foMy45Ec3eM Menasor's theme]], an awesom and intimidating song backed up by the drums going hard through triple stroke rolls on each foot and a choir. A great way to show off the awesome might and scale of Menasor one of the strongest Decepticon combiners.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: It's a bit too easy to see when a character model loads after transforming. The character's details just pop into existence between 2 frames near the end of the transformation sequence.

* MoralEventHorizon: Megatron is quick to cross this with a plan to turn Earth into a new Cybertron, gleeful at the thought of wiping out the planet's indigenous life.

** As mentioned above, plenty of players and reviewers even on launch were disappointed at the lack of a Decepticon campaign, or at the very least some unlockable 'cons playable for the Challenge mode. Characters like Megatron, Starscream and Shockwave could have had very interesting tool-kits and abilities for players to mess around with.

** As mentioned above, plenty of players and reviewers even on launch were disappointed at the lack of a [[NoCampaignForTheWicked Decepticon campaign]], or at the very least some unlockable 'cons playable for the Challenge mode. Characters like Megatron, Starscream and Shockwave could have had very interesting tool-kits and abilities for players to mess around with.

** Plenty of players and reviewers even on launch were disappointed at the lack of a [[NoCampaignForTheWicked Decepticon campaign]], or at the very least some unlockable 'cons playable for the Challenge mode. Characters like Megatron, Starscream and Shockwave could have had very interesting move sets and abilities for players to mess around with.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12WzCtpxtI Motormaster's]] theme is an incredible theme that amps you up to fight the leader of the Stunticons.

** Megatron's theme is amazing to say the least, but then the remix for the final battle is...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEBYjnMNbM4 a bit too hard to put to words.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Grimlock, see MemeticBadass for details.

** [[TheOtherDarrin The replacement voice actors]] also have polarising reception, particularly those who still have living and accessible actors (such as Corey Burton, Neil Ross, Jack Angel, Alan Oppenheimer, Arthur Burghardt, Bud Davis, Clive Revill, and Hal Rayle) or were even replaced despite having contributing actors (such as Creator/FrankWelker). Depending on fan or character, some think they replicated the role well or sound like a blatantly poor imitation.

* GameBreaker: Still Safe is a dodge move that protects the player even if they're hit just as the enemy attacks. It's only 30,000 credits and can be bought early in the game. Combined with a Sniper Rifle range weapon (which can be either found or bought for 30,000) that can be upgraded, this provides a fairly helpful advantage over enemies (especially bosses on higher difficulty settings that spam attacks like no tomorrow).

** Developer-wise, it's also this to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfKorra'', which get a lot of flak and criticism over its underwhelming feature.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Per Creator/PlatinumGames standard, a majority of the hype-inducing soundtrack. Vince DiCola of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' fame contributed, too:

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Per Creator/PlatinumGames standard, a majority of the hype-inducing soundtrack.

** Combiners are hit with this pretty hard as well; Devastator in particular has a point where one can see the un-rendered inside of his shoulder joints as as he's assembling, and Menasor suffers from what seems to be his model's textures being finished before the individual Stunticons, resulting in paint detail from the cars making up his arms spontaneously vanishing whenever he breaks apart and reassembles.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Whether the game is meant to promote this lesson is unknown, but Megatron's motive in this game seems to be saying "Just because a species is different from you, doesn't mean they don't live like you." Megatron was planning to Cyberform Earth, humans be damned, and the Autobots drop everything, even their own culture, to stop him.

** It could also be seen as a [=WBTC=] moment for [[Creator/PlatinumGames Platinum]] as a whole, after the lukewarm reception to their ''Legend of Korra'' game.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R5K8UQU42w Motormaster's]] theme is an incredible theme that amps you up to fight the leader of the Stunticons.
** As well as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M2cxtC9nSo Constructicon Theme (aka "Fight Theme 3")]] and
** Megatron's theme is amazing to say the least, but then the remix for the final battle is...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIETEz_MZvc a bit too hard to put to words.]]

* Narm: In the cutscene before Starscream's first fight, it ends with Starscreaming puckering his lips like a duck for no particular reason, looking quite silly and unmenacing, even for someone like him. The fact that the cutscene stays on this scene for a couple seconds before cutting to the battle itself is even more hilarious.

** Shockwave's theme is a tense symphonic piece that gets mixed with an assault of metal guitars to match the stoic demeanor masking his unyielding ferocity.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Megatron]] is the ruthless leader of the Decepticons, who waged war against the Autobots for millions of years, leading to his own homeworld Cybertron becoming uninhabitable. Constantly trying to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Earth]], Megatron soon discovered the Autobot ship Proudstar, which was designed to cyberform uninhabited planets and started to [[HostileTerraforming cyberform New York City]]. Taking over that ship, Megatron creates a plan to use its Ferrotax supercomputer to speed up the process and cyberform the entire Earth, killing all organic life on it, which he [[FantasticRacism openly considers inferior]]. Repeatedly thwarting the Autobots' attempt at stopping the cyberformation process, including launching unstable core of the ship outside of New York, which could have caused an extinction-level explosion, Megatron shoots Ferrotax into space to keep the Autobots from getting it. When Optimus Prime managed to reach it, Megatron battles him, openly announcing his intention of creating the new Cybertron and [[GalacticConqueror retaking the galaxy in a bloody conquest]].

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Megatron]] is the ruthless leader of the Decepticons, who waged war against the Autobots for millions of years, leading to his own homeworld Cybertron becoming uninhabitable. Constantly trying to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Earth]], Megatron soon discovered the Autobot ship Proudstar, which was designed to cyberform uninhabited planets and started to [[HostileTerraforming cyberform New York City]]. Taking over that ship, Megatron creates a plan to use its Ferrotax supercomputer to speed up the process and cyberform the entire Earth, killing all organic life on it, which he [[FantasticRacism openly considers inferior]]. Repeatedly thwarting the Autobots' attempt at stopping the cyberformation process, including launching unstable core of the ship outside of New York, which could have caused an extinction-level explosion, Megatron shoots Ferrotax into space to keep the Autobots from getting it. When Optimus Prime managed to reach it, Megatron battles him, openly announcing his intention of creating the new Cybertron and retaking the galaxy in a bloody conquest.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Megatron]] is the ruthless leader of the Decepticons, who waged war against the Autobots for millions of years, leading to his own homeworld Cybertron becoming uninhabitable. Constantly trying to [[TakeOverTheWorld take over Earth]], Megatron soon discovered the Autobot ship Proudstar, which was designed to cyberform uninhabited planets, and started to [[HostileTerraforming cyberform New York City]]. Taking over that ship, Megatron creates a plan to use its Ferrotax supercomputer to cyberform the entire Earth, killing all organic life on it, which he [[FantasticRacism openly considers inferior]]. Repeatedly thwarting the Autobots' attempt at stopping the cyberformation process, including launching unstable core of the ship outside of New York, which could have caused an extinction-level explosion, Megatron shoots Ferrotax into space to keep the Autobots from getting it. When Optimus Prime managed to reach it, Megatron battles him, openly announcing his intention of creating the new Cybertron and retaking the galaxy in a bloody conquest.