The game (in all its versions) is mainly a third-person shooter. All the robots have at least four attack types: a light weapon, a heavy weapon, a melee attack, and the ability to throw objects such as cars, lampposts, trees, etc.
As its title and characters imply, a robot can transform into a vehicle and viceversa, this gives the game some racing elements, as the player must, in some missions, race to certain point within a time limit or before a character of the opposing faction does.
The cities are freely roamable, and there are also side-missions, Energon cubes and Autobot/Decepticon emblems scattered through the city, if accomplished successfully/collected the player can unlock trailers, production photos and unlock color schemes for certain characters.
Transformers: Autobots and Decepticons feature an integrated online community at
http://ds.transformersgame.com which is designed by Spiral Design Studio and developed and managed by Agora Games. The site features detailed player profiles, allowing users to view several in-game player stats such as destruction points, deaths, and enemies destroyed.[7]
Community forums allow players to communicate with one another,[8] and also facilitate regular contests in which players compete in various Transformers related activities - both in-game and out - for prizes. An RPG game is played by some players where they make their own bot and play together by writing short parts of stories and actions. The ultimate goal is to claim the Allspark in this game. Only one player has claimed it so far.
