Seibertron.com Energon Pub Forums

[Blurrz]

GameInformer has updated their Transformers War For Cybertron Hub with one of the most popular characters in the Transformers Universe - Starscream. The seeker has been known to be treacherous, egotistical and always looking out for himself. Will Activisions' War For Cybertron continue this trend? Check out the sketches and information below!




We've already given you the lowdown on the esteemed leaders of the Autobots and Decepticons, Optimus Prime and Megatron, but for our final Transformers: War For Cybertron character profile, we wanted to take a look at a true fan favorite. Enter Megatron's ever-scheming second-in-command, Starscream. You can see his powerful jet form above and his newly-designed robot form below.

Cartoon watchers who were introduced to Starscream in the '80s were immediately drawn to his sneaky, deceitful nature. Despite being arguably the highest-ranking member of the Decepticons besides Megatron, Starscream is deadset on taking the top spot, and he makes no efforts to hide it. But the original cartoon never really attempted to explain why Starscream was on such a power trip nor why Megatron kept him around despite that. War For Cybertron's prequel story lends itself perfectly to fleshing out these motivations.

The first mission of the Decepticon campaign will chronicle the first meeting between Megatron and Starscream aboard a space station that orbits Cybertron. This dramatic encounter will culminate in one of the Decepticons defecting only to be replaced by an eager Starscream. Despite teaming up with the Decepticons, Starscream will make it clear that in his mind both Megatron and Optimus Prime are failing to keep the best interests of all of Cybertron in their minds.

As one of the handful of Transformers that can change into a jet, Starscream will also have the special Hover ability while in robot form. His other special ability, Shockwave, sounds like it will be perfect for handling large groups of enemies.

Keep it at Seibertron.com for the fastest Transformers news on the net!

[Burn]

Tree trunk legs and tiny arms. hmmmmm .... like but don't like.

Put some nice big null-ray cannons on those arms though ...

[First-Aid]

Loving that jet mode! Robot mode looks great too, especially if he has jets in his legs for hovering and robot-mode flight. Never understood how small jets could maintain flight on a huge robot mode...

[KingEmperor]

I don't know if this was asked and answered already, but if Hasbro aims for the game's storyline to be canon, then how do they explain the differences in designs compared to War Within's?

[Convotron]

Bot mode is alright, needs null-ray cannons.

Alt mode just doesn't look good to me with the tiny stubby wings. They're superfluous to the design because they're not big enough to be functional wings and they have little visual appeal unless one likes stubby wing things. Either go for fully fledged wings or abandon the component and go for a more tetra jet design, which the concept artist seem to be hinting at.

[frogbat]

i'm not too sold on the character designs so far though they definitely aren't the worst that i've seen over the past couple of years - starscream is the most disappointing so far - not too keen on the boots and the alt mode seems a bit over worked for someone that is supposedly a sleek flyer

things i do like from the little we've seen is the premise (before earth contact), the fact that it appears to be take elemetns from g1, animated and the movie to create this part of the universe. But I must admit my favourite part is their rendering of cybertron - it's pretty close to the idea I had in my head of what it should look like as someone who grew up on g1. Michael Bay's cybertron had more in common with lotr's mount doom than cybertron it seemed.

hope the game develops into something enjoyable and lasting

[Archanubis]

Little on the chunky side, aint he?

[dragons]

if you shrink the picture to smaller size kinda lokos ike hotrod but his bot mode is something i can deal with jet mode to bulky doesnt look look like jet looks like animated megatron in his cybertron from looks like train with wings almost but if they dont make figures out of all these figures i can deal with this desgin toy of his jet mode would look bad to me

looked at his jet mode looks like animated starscream with really short wings & more bulk to his back sde this time

[Varia31]

The bot mode looks pretty good, very similar to his Cybertron mode in the movie-verse. The alt. mode's not too bad, it could use larger wings though. The mindset part in his profile is almost directly inspired by movie-verse 'Screamer, as movie 'Screamer thinks that way initially.

[UltraPrimal]

Gotta admit, looks kind of shit, IMO.