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Gaming website Giant Bomb gives us a look at the final version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron with commentary from High Moon Studio's Matt Tieger. Video embedded below.

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron hits retail on August 21st!

Was kinda hoping for some Megatron gameplay.

Watching Bruticus and the G1 Optimus skin in action made me 10x even happier that I preordered the game for my birthday! Can't wait for them to raise the level cap tomorrow as well.

There it is, straight from the horses mouth: this is G1 continuity. Interesting.

Also Cliffjumper rules!

So next game on Earth maybe?

The G1 cartoon could use a retro-fit, been trying to watch them… so many of the episodes are soooooo bad Storytelling in animated series has thankfully stepped up since the '80s.

Transformers: Battle For Earth would be a great name, if only for the acronym…

Sodan-1 wrote:There it is, straight from the horses mouth: this is G1 continuity. Interesting.

He said the same thing he's been saying: "The g1 cartoon was our primary touchstone" = "The G1 cartoon was our biggest inspiration for aesthetics and story," not "The G1 cartoon is what the game leads into."

Grimlock's very presence there, not to mention a TON of other things from both this game and WFC, is a blatant contradiction to the G1 cartoon.

NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:So next game on Earth maybe?

The G1 cartoon could use a retro-fit, been trying to watch them… so many of the episodes are soooooo bad Storytelling in animated series has thankfully stepped up since the '80s.

Transformers: Battle For Earth would be a great name, if only for the acronym…

The don't go straight to Earth after the events of this game. They go planet-hopping on a long, space-faring journey instead.

So Brawl has a stationary weapons platform mode. Neat.

And finally, a mode in an animated feature(within a game, but still) that actually looks like an intermediate mode.

Mindmaster wrote:Was kinda hoping for some Megatron gameplay.

Watching Bruticus and the G1 Optimus skin in action made me 10x even happier that I preordered the game for my birthday! Can't wait for them to raise the level cap tomorrow as well.

Seeing a G1 skin Optimus sporting a shockwave-ish gun-arm looks wierd to me. Gimme some hand held chrome rifles and shoulder mounted rocket launchers!

I don't see HM going that route (I guess it's more realistic to have arms that turn into guns)

Mindmaster wrote:Was kinda hoping for some Megatron gameplay.

Watching Bruticus and the G1 Optimus skin in action made me 10x even happier that I preordered the game for my birthday! Can't wait for them to raise the level cap tomorrow as well.

Seeing a G1 skin Optimus sporting a shockwave-ish gun-arm looks wierd to me. Gimme some hand held chrome rifles and shoulder mounted rocket launchers!

I don't see HM going that route (I guess it's more realistic to have arms that turn into guns)

orangeitis wrote:So Brawl has a stationary weapons platform mode. Neat.

And finally, a mode in an animated feature(within a game, but still) that actually looks like an intermediate mode.

Yeah, I really wanna try replicating that with his toy, but have yet to figure out how.

Same goes for Vortex's Jet Mode. Best I can get is reattaching his swords pointing outward like wings and aligning his rotors into two blades (instead of four) pointing straight.

I cannot wait for this game to come out! The more I see, the more I love!

That being said, this demo video showed that there at going to be 13 levels in the campaign. I know that we are seeing a little behind the scenes, (at least before you unlock each level) but I wanted to share the characters/levels that I saw and see if anybody else noticed anything else.

Here's what I saw regarding the playable character for the corresponding chapter:

Chapter 1 - Bumblebee
Chapter 2 - Optimus
Chapter 3 - ?
Chapter 4 - Cliffjumper
Chapter 5 - Jazz
Chapter 6 - Vortex
Chapter 7 - Swindle
Chapter 8 - Bruticus
Chapter 9 - ?
Chapter 10 - Megatron
Chapter 11 - Starscream
Chapter 12 - Grimlock!
Chapter 13 - ?

Also, does anybody know if they are more than one playable character during a single chapter? After playing the Vortex demo, I could see taking control of Blastoff during another part of the chapter to complete a different goal to help Vortex. Anyway, just a theory and this helps pass the time until the game is released!