You snap them to your Autobot hero four at a time to gain new weapons and abilities (shielding, invisibility, yadda, yadda). Credit goes to the Mini-Cons, little-buddy 'bots strewn across the sprawling levels. But even if you never spent after-school hours zonked in front of the show (musta been one of those PBS kids), Transformers is still a supercharged, Walo-inspired shooter with slick exploration and custom-robo tinkering elements bolted on. First things first: Yes, this game's robo-heroes do make that 'er-ah-ee' noise from the old cartoon when they quickly change from autos to battlebots.
