10 Times Video Game Sequels EMBARRASSED Movies
3. Transformers: Cybertron Series > Every Michael Bay Transformers Movie After the First
The War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron games didn’t just outdo Michael Bay’s Transformers sequels - they straight-up made them look like parodies.
While the first entry gets a pass, Bay’s films got progressively louder, dumber, and more obsessed with military hardware and weird jokes about robot balls, High Moon Studios actually took the source material seriously. The Cybertron games delivered a rich, lore-heavy reimagining of the Autobot-Decepticon civil war, with gravitas, character development, and yes, Optimus Prime being an actual leader instead of a bloodthirsty lunatic.
The games gave fans what they’d been waiting for: a devastated metallic world torn apart by ideology, brutal third-person combat, and set pieces that felt genuinely epic without drowning in sparks and slow-motion debris. They even had proper arcs for Starscream, Megatron, and Grimlock - characters reduced to cannon fodder or punchlines in the films.
And the best part? No Shia LaBeouf screaming. No robot testicles. Just pure, high-quality Transformers storytelling with weight, stakes, and a killer soundtrack work to match.
The movies wanted mass appeal and spectacle. Cybertron gave fans an actual war worth fighting - and it never once tried to sell you a Bud Light in the middle of a gunfight.