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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Wed May 15, 2013 2:30 pm

Arcade Heroes is reporting that Sega will be testing a new Transformers arcade game in China over the weekend. The new game, which is likely a light-gun style shooter, is titled Transformers: Human Alliance. No word on if the game will be coming Stateside, but naturally we'll be keeping an eye on it's development.

Arcade Heroes wrote:According to the scant info about the game so far, it’s a shooting game where humans (presumably the player) fight alongside the Autobots to save the planet. Also it can be presumed that means it’s a light-gun game, which would make this the first licensed light-gun game Sega has done since Rambo. However you never know, there is a small possibility that shooter could mean the STG kind too, which is more popular in that area of the world. It is also the first time I am aware of that the Transformers will have their own specific video arcade game; there was the pinball machine by Stern otherwise.

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Wed May 15, 2013 9:05 pm

Let me put an image in your head.
Riding in the back of Ironhide, shooting at Bonecrusher as he chases you down the highway, changing from robot to vehicle and back to attack you with everything from parts of cars to snapping at you with his pinchers.
You eventually do enough damage and he transforms and leaps towards you, he gets to close for confort, than optimus arives and lands a face-smashing punch and they both fly off the side of the freeway...
Mission Complete.
Make it like time crises but with transformers and better graphics, please please please!

by **Grimlock64** » Wed May 15, 2013 10:36 pm

It'd be cool if this was translated, and then released on consoles and PC here in the States.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:36 am

Back in May we reported that Sega was testing a new Transformers: Human Alliance arcade game in China. Sega has now uploaded a brief teaser trailer to their YouTube account, check it out below.

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:52 am

Generic forgetful ad with little to no effort put into it, no soundtrack, voice acting, very little gameplay wich SHOULD be the highlight, bland setpieces and PS2 graphics really seal the deal here. Who knows, it COULD turn out really good and extremely fun, but Its going to take alot for this to even become somewhat appealing to me after such a bland teaser.

News Credits: 62 · by **#Sideways#** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 11:58 am

So basically, it's that insanely difficult Jurassic Park game that always gets me on the first level except with Transformers? Huh.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 1:47 pm

BeastProwl wrote:Generic forgetful ad with little to no effort put into it, no soundtrack, voice acting, very little gameplay wich SHOULD be the highlight, bland setpieces and PS2 graphics really seal the deal here. Who knows, it COULD turn out really good and extremely fun, but Its going to take alot for this to even become somewhat appealing to me after such a bland teaser.

In other words, it's a teaser trailer.

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:11 pm

Sabrblade wrote:In other words, it's a teaser trailer.

The barest of the bare minimum, didn't hype me for a second.They should have waited to put out a teaser, waited until they had more to show.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:23 pm

BeastProwl wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:In other words, it's a teaser trailer.

The barest of the bare minimum, didn't hype me for a second.They should have waited to put out a teaser, waited until they had more to show.

An announcement trailer, then?

by **The Variable** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:49 pm

Makes me think of those quick shots in DOTM that puts you in the POV of one of the NEST soldiers. Once during the entrance to the Chernobyl reactor core, and again during the fight against Sentinel himself.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:56 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
BeastProwl wrote:Generic forgetful ad with little to no effort put into it, no soundtrack, voice acting, very little gameplay wich SHOULD be the highlight, bland setpieces and PS2 graphics really seal the deal here. Who knows, it COULD turn out really good and extremely fun, but Its going to take alot for this to even become somewhat appealing to me after such a bland teaser.
In other words, it's a teaser trailer.

For an arcade game, this isn't something you buy, this is something you throw some change in at a restaurant/ arcade/ whatever to kill some time.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:44 pm

Way back in May we brought you word that Sega was testing a Transformers light-gun style shooter arcade game called Transformers Human Alliance. Shortly there after, a teaser trailer was uploaded to Sega's Youtube account. Now, Sega Amusements on Facebook is giving fans a chance to vote which stage they want to see a video of. You can either like the facebook post to vote for the England stage or share it to vote for the Africa stage. Click on the image to view the Facebook post.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:47 pm

The votes have been counted and Sega has uploaded gameplay footage from their upcoming Transformers: Human Alliance arcade game. Fans were asked to choose between footage from the England or Africa stages, and the England stage came out on top. Check out the gameplay footage embedded below.

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:13 pm

Thats some bad VA on the human guy...
But THAT WAS **** AWESOME!!!

News Credits: 90 · by **Tyrannacon** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 7:20 pm

Awesome, but the Voice Acting leaves a bit to be desired.

News Credits: 1 · by **leakin' lubricant** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:24 am

any news on the making it to other platforms? Would love to play this with PlayStation Move, or even on iPad.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 6:54 pm

Sega Amusements has posted a new trailer and additional details for their Transformers: Human Alliance arcade game. Check out an image of the machine and the new trailer below.

Get ready to join the Human Alliance

Sega’s latest action adventure game, TRANSFORMERS Human Alliance, partners players with one of three of the movie’s stars, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee or Sideswipe. Players must battle their way across America, Africa and Europe destroying the Decepticons before they find the All Spark, a material capable of bringing any mechanical or electronic object to life.

To date, the three TRANSFORMERS movies have taken in over $2.6 billion! TRANSFORMERS is a brand that’s universally recognised for delivering high quality, high-energy entertainment, and Sega are proud to be bringing it to amusement arcades!

2 players
Bumblebee thmed cabinet
42" LCD Upright Deluxe
5 cities to defend
Free Transformers Human Alliance standee included

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:19 pm

Considering the fact that there is only one place reasonably close by to me where they will have this game and it's guaranteed that it will be priced at a dollar per player to play this (minimum), then toss in the fact that the graphics are only so-so for an arcade game AND they couldn't even find a passable VA for Prime in the game... not happening. Besides which, my wallet is still trying to recover from my kids and I hitting up the arcade/fun-plex last month.
I would have expected better from Sega in a full size arcade style game but honestly my kids have better looking games for their 360.

by **Ultra Markus** » Fri Nov 15, 2013 10:42 pm

i guess the days when arcade games had better graphics than home systems are long gone

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:40 pm

Sega Amusements has posted some new images of their upcoming Transformers Human Alliance arcade game. This is 55 inch version.

Sega’s latest action adventure game, TRANSFORMERS Human Alliance, partners players with one of three of the movie’s stars, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee or Sideswipe. Players must battle their way across America, Africa and Europe destroying the Decepticons before they find the All Spark, a material capable of bringing any mechanical or electronic object to life.

To date, the three TRANSFORMERS movies have taken in over $2.6 billion! TRANSFORMERS is a brand that’s universally recognised for delivering high quality, high-energy entertainment, and Sega are proud to be bringing it to amusement arcades!

2 players
Bumblebee themed cabinet
55" LED Theatre
5 cities to defend

by **Rated X** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:48 am

This looks like one of those games that costs like 8 tokens to play and you get neutralized in two minutes. I stopped going to arcades when the only game left that was still a quarter was pac-man.