FFN

"The combat looked pretty mundane -- each level was a linear path, with the occasional enemy ambush to mix up the plodding pace... it was all very formulaic. Each Transformer had a separate special weapon, but in the end it was just robots shooting at other robots."

Wait, isn't that what War for Cybertron was in its entirely?

Quite frankly, I think War for Cybertron was softballed by the press, gamers and fans due to the belief that it was a Generation 1 (1980s Transformers) game, and to a lesser extent, as part of the mostly justified negative reaction to Revenge of the Fallen (though people do tend to go overboard about it, like the movie killed their mother or something).