Leaked Gameplay Footage of Transformers Reactivate

OK, this looks amazing. They seriously need to finish this game. We are LONG overdue for a new Transformers storyline, villain, and game. Legion, huh? Was anyone else getting ROTB Apelinq vibes from some of those targets?

So far, so good, but let's hope there's no plump HR lady or "consultants" agencies that sabotaged the game from the inside since then.

I want a Transformers game, not ROBOT UNICORN ATTACK.
Check it out, it's a classic!

First-Aid wrote:Was anyone else getting ROTB Apelinq vibes from some of those targets?

Now that I think about it, yes, but seeing them in gameplay immediately reminded me of those Decepticlones that would neutralize your weapons then use wrestling moves on you in the PS2 Armada game.

The visuals are beautiful. And great gameplay in all of this…

But I can’t help thinking about the original beast wars PlayStation game. Like that one, It feels like they just dropped the transformers, brand and character models into a game that has nothing to do with transformers.

It’s missing all of the characterization, voices, plot, and lore that come with the franchise… All of the things that put heart and emotion and gravitas into a show or game. While I think it would be fun to play, I can’t help, but hope for another game on the horizon that is more in the lines of devastation or fall of Cybertron that will have me cheering for the characters I love and draw me into the story.

gothsaurus wrote:The visuals are beautiful. And great gameplay in all of this…

But I can’t help thinking about the original beast wars PlayStation game. Like that one, It feels like they just dropped the transformers, brand and character models into a game that has nothing to do with transformers.

It’s missing all of the characterization, voices, plot, and lore that come with the franchise… All of the things that put heart and emotion and gravitas into a show or game. While I think it would be fun to play, I can’t help, but hope for another game on the horizon that is more in the lines of devastation or fall of Cybertron that will have me cheering for the characters I love and draw me into the story.

Honestly, we don't know near enough about it to say it's missing those things. This is gameplay only, after all. What else do we know about this? Honestly, jack squat. We don't know the story. We don't know the characterizations. All we know is the figures we've gotten and this walkthrough with what may be a temporary voice actor.

william-james88 wrote:While there won't be any updates for Transformers Reactivate until at least next year, something pretty cool has dropped. TFReaper has uploaded leaked gameplay footage of the game from 2020. It gives us an idea of the third person angle this game has along with the how the transformation gimmick is implemented along with what the enemies are. And we see that Bumblebee design that we are now very familiar with due to the toys.

The footage is from the tutorial area. It is also important to remember that the game has been massively reworked since so it may look very different from this once eventually released.

Nice mix between High Moon Cybertron third person shooting and Devastation combat. Shame this isn't in the 40th anniversary while that one budget friendly racing combat game took its spot (if intended)

DEVASTATION is a TPS because the shooting is stronger than the slashing.Even for scoring:headshot with a rapid weapon,beat'em alls don't have headshots,Columbo.The most distinct is the dodge+slow motion or the vehicule crash+it,the very strong drill shot that can be charged(logically not the same model as Devastator because of size).The two others are higly story driven,i can see why you would prefer the multiplayer over the playable cutscenes.BATTLEGROUNDS is a turn by turn TPS.

The game was announced in December 2022 with a cinematic trailer and promises of a beta that never happened. Their next social media update was a full year later promising "exciting updates" in 2024. Here we are another full year later with nothing. But oh hey look, leaked gameplay from nearly FIVE YEARS ago. lol this game is never happening.

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:The game was announced in December 2022 with a cinematic trailer and promises of a beta that never happened. Their next social media update was a full year later promising "exciting updates" in 2024. Here we are another full year later with nothing. But oh hey look, leaked gameplay from nearly FIVE YEARS ago. lol this game is never happening.

If the game is one more online hero shooter à la Overwatch, it better be FTP with a kick-ass co-op story mode, and generous rewards, with a simple interface.

If they fail just ONE of these aspects, the game will be effectively DOA.

That's all well and fine if the game actually releases, which it totally won't.

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:That's all well and fine if the game actually releases, which it totally won't.

Or maybe, just maybe, they need more time to cook so they can trash all the hero-shooter concepts (a genre where competition is ruthless and unforgiving) and go back to make a stellar single player experience like the Activision classics.

But I'm not holding my breath.

He's dead, Jim.

https://twitter.com/splashdamage/status/1877020458454749485

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

Lol, said the scorpion. Lmao

It's official, the live service game Transformers Reactivate has been cancelled. This comes to us from Splash Damage, the developers, who say the game is no longer being developed. You can read their whole statement below, which they posted on Twitter. We thank Sabrblade for letting us know of this unfortunate development. While a coincidence, this does happen at the same time that Hasbro will be doing games based on their properties themselves rather than licensing it out to third party companies. We will be giving you more info on this shift in Hasbro's business strategies in an upcoming editorial.

https://twitter.com/splashdamage/status/1877020458454749485

After the DOA Concord, and the failure of so many hero shooters, INCLUDING OVERWATCH, plus having to compete with Fortnite and the Marvel Rivals juggernaut, it's no wonder that it was pointless spending more ressources on that TF themed hero shooter.

Too bad the whole thing will be buried for a tax return instead of being redirected into a kick-ass single player game like the Activision classics.

TOO MUCH ENERGON! wrote:The game was announced in December 2022 with a cinematic trailer and promises of a beta that never happened. Their next social media update was a full year later promising "exciting updates" in 2024. Here we are another full year later with nothing. But oh hey look, leaked gameplay from nearly FIVE YEARS ago. lol this game is never happening.

Called it!

This makes me sad.

Sometimes, I must reap things untimely - even games...

I never needed a AAA Transformers video game with all the fancy shmancy (read: modern greedy crap) live-service, endless DLCs, pay-to-win crap. Just wanted a good single player TPS with decent graphics (WFC/FOC is still serviceable to this day) that moves the franchise forward. Cut the multiplayer aspect to save on development & support costs. A good game with awesome designs drives toy sales and franchise exposure to the general public. We had a winning formula with WFC/FOC/Davastation, is it so hard to get back to that basics?

I doubt I'll play Deactivate, er, I mean Reactivate even if it comes out because of its live-service focus. But I was interested to know how story driven it will be - even if the premise of human & Transformers banding together to fight some space snakes sound stupid/wasted potential on the outset. We are starved for more mature stories outside of Skybound comics.

Now it's all for naught. Oh well, I MIGHT get the two 2-packs as memoriam for what it could be... if they're on sale.

"a winning formula"?Not in the eyes of the games publisher.

You said they spend too much money on the wrong thing about TF:ONE,it happens since PRIME at least (the actors),the ambitious failure that started it all before EARTHSPARK that is mainly remembered for a few things only.

Go back to replay these games if they are that great,as tyrannical as it sounds.The multiplayer rather than the playable cutscenes i suppose.

Tripple Dripple called it.

That thing was never gonna fly and if it did it would've been Concord.

Game dev managers need to start realizing, just make a good small single player game and then just finish the game and sell it on consoles for 30/40 euro's. Not the whole hero shooter live service crap. That won't work and over budget games also won't work. 10 guys can make a cool single player TF game in a year part time.

noctorro wrote:Tripple Dripple called it.

That thing was never gonna fly and if it did it would've been Concord.

Game dev managers need to start realizing, just make a good small single player game and then just finish the game and sell it on consoles for 30/40 euro's. Not the whole hero shooter live service crap. That won't work and over budget games also won't work. 10 guys can make a cool single player TF game in a year part time.

Its administration that's the issue, not the devs. The admins are trying to maximize profit with minimal work, but simple story games don't do that. I'd live to see something along the lines of Horizon Zero Dawn for TF, or Jedi Fallen Order. Both had excellent storyline and were standbalone games.

Yes agree. High Moon got it right. A solid third person shooter, the auto-unique factor is you can Transform from a third person shooter to a racing / flying game so it's actually cheating.
And a story, you can write any sci fi war story you want and put Transformers in it. And it has a built in fanbase which is pretty strong I think. So a decent TF game not too high budget in making should be a pretty easy gig.

Those producers/managers are the problem.

Disapointing, but yeah, not shocking. Hopefully someone will pick up the IP and do something great.

Still enjoy the trailer.

At least we got 4 cool toys out of it before it died

Archived trailer from E3 2020:

This was the original reveal trailer for the game, animated by Digital Domain, they had planned to show this off at E3 2020- which obviously didn't happen. All credit for this massive discovery goes to @Optimuscan12K on Twitter.

By the end of 2020, the game was given to Splash Damage in full who fully rebooted the project with less than 12 months until release.

The textbook example of an aborted project.