Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe

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If you were looking forward to cutting up Decepticons with Sideswipe in the upcoming movie tie-in video game, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, you'll have to get your pre-orders up at Gamestop. With the game's release date on June 14th, a pre-order at Gamestop will give you a code to play as the Autobot Corvette in multiplayer on the XBOX 360 and PS3.

If you're not too keen on pre-ordering the game, then there is no real worry. Sideswipe and any other pre-order character will likely be released in the first DOTM Downloadable Content. However, that date will likely be a few months down the road after the release date of the game. So if you want to play as Sideswipe immediately, get your pre-orders in now!

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Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213814)
Posted by Blurrz on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:05pm CDT

SlyTF1 wrote:Man, this some old bullsh!t. I thought Sideswipe was going to be in the game anyway! Why isn't he in the full game damnit!? I want more Sideswipe!!! I'm gonna start a petition to get them to rewrite more Sideswipe into the game and movie.

Cry more. He's going to get sidelined cause there's Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, let alone the playable Decepticon characters. For a movie-based game.. I dunno, I'm probably not even going to buy DOTM 'cause it's just going to be a waste of money once WFC2 comes out.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213821)
Posted by SlyTF1 on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:09pm CDT

Blurrz wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:Man, this some old bullsh!t. I thought Sideswipe was going to be in the game anyway! Why isn't he in the full game damnit!? I want more Sideswipe!!! I'm gonna start a petition to get them to rewrite more Sideswipe into the game and movie.

Cry more. He's going to get sidelined cause there's Prime, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, let alone the playable Decepticon characters. For a movie-based game.. I dunno, I'm probably not even going to buy DOTM 'cause it's just going to be a waste of money once WFC2 comes out.

They should make room for more characters. I want a long TF game one day. But movie games are rarely long, but I beat the entire WFC game in one sitting (yeah, I was playing hard.) So, it'd be better if they put more characters than those in the game.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213823)
Posted by Blurrz on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:13pm CDT

Yeah, I know what you mean. We're just not going to get it in DOTM. You might have a blast with the Multiplayer, but that's just going to be a carbon copy of WFC/ROTF. I'd honestly just wait for WFC2 or just spend your money on a better video game. Just rent DOTM or something.. don't waste your money on a game like this.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213831)
Posted by #Sideways# on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:23pm CDT

Wait, does this mean that the DOTM game won't be for PC!?

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213846)
Posted by BeastProwl on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:40pm CDT

but you guys are forgetting that, whatever character is an exclusive, you could always BUY later..... that is Unless you have a PS3. PSN IS HACKED!!!! :BANG_HEAD:

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213849)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:44pm CDT

It probably will come out for PC, but beware, PC users get majorly shafted by High moon. For PC we didn't get any of the dlc, ever. No new Characters, no new multiplayer maps, or even any patch support for WFC. I would almost get it for the console just coz of all these reasons, BUT watch there be a frame rate barrier at 30 fps or some crap. Which means i'd prefer it for PC where in time someone will make a crack app to allow 60+ fps.
Such is the damage:
http://www.petitiononline.com/fixwfcpc/petition.html

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213850)
Posted by Twitchythe3rd on April 25th, 2011 @ 3:55pm CDT

I don't care for movie-licensed games. More often than not they completely and utterly suck.

I have no doubt that Sideswipe and whatever other characters are being sidelined as Pre-Order Exclusives will be released in a DLC pack like they did with the WFC Exclusives.

I'll be waiting for WFC2 and kicking skidplate in WFC whenever PSN comes back up.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213854)
Posted by SlyTF1 on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:01pm CDT

Blurrz wrote:Yeah, I know what you mean. We're just not going to get it in DOTM. You might have a blast with the Multiplayer, but that's just going to be a carbon copy of WFC/ROTF. I'd honestly just wait for WFC2 or just spend your money on a better video game. Just rent DOTM or something.. don't waste your money on a game like this.

I'm gonna buy it. Because I spent hours upon hours playing ROTF. WFC...I only played for about 6 hours.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213855)
Posted by NatsumeRyu on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:02pm CDT

Being in college for video games, being a Transformers fan who enjoys the aesthetic of the live-action films, and being one who posts gameplay on youtube for the rest of you to see what the game is like (whether good or bad), and last but not least, finding these movie games invaluable assets for the models more than anything else, I will be pre-ordering. But not right now. I'll wait a bit more and see if there are any other pre-order offerings to choose from.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213864)
Posted by Shadowman on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:24pm CDT

BeastProwl wrote:but you guys are forgetting that, whatever character is an exclusive, you could always BUY later..... that is Unless you have a PS3. PSN IS HACKED!!!!

It will be back up long before DOTM comes out. And the hack wasn't what caused the PSN to go down anyway, Sony flipped the switch themselves.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213869)
Posted by oldskooltf on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:33pm CDT

Preorder exclusive characters are stupid and lame.

We'll probably have different characters exclusive to different stores just like we did with War for Cybertron.

Oh... but they'll later "reward" us with having them available for DLC. Of course the characters code will already be in the game, which is why you'll be able to see them playing against you in online multiplayer.

So, basically you'll be paying for an 180 kb unlock file to play with characters that are already on your game disk and were created along with everything else when the game shipped, not really extra content the studio made after the games shipped.

Stupid.

I loved War for Cybertron, but this preorder character crap is stupid.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213872)
Posted by cannonfodder4000 on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:37pm CDT

oldskooltf wrote:Preorder exclusive characters are stupid and lame.

We'll probably have different characters exclusive to different stores just like we did with War for Cybertron.

Oh... but they'll later "reward" us with having them available for DLC. Of course the characters code will already be in the game, which is why you'll be able to see them playing against you in online multiplayer.

So, basically you'll be paying for an 180 kb unlock file to play with characters that are already on your game disk and were created along with everything else when the game shipped, not really extra content the studio made after the games shipped.

Stupid.

I loved War for Cybertron, but this preorder character crap is stupid.

I don't know why people are complaining about this, I mean, WFC did the same thing, but then all of those characters were included in the DLC. =L

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213880)
Posted by oldskooltf on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:55pm CDT

cannonfodder4000 wrote:I don't know why people are complaining about this, I mean, WFC did the same thing, but then all of those characters were included in the DLC. =L

It's because it's characters the gaming studio has already made and are already on the disk, but the only way to access that content on the disk you already bought is to preorder it from a certain store and/or then later through DLC. It's stupid.

It was also stupid back when War for Cybertron did it.

It's not like maps that Bungie make AFTER they ship Halo Reach. That kind of DLC doesn't bother me, because it's not stuff that came with the disk.

These preorder characters are ON YOUR DISK no matter how/where you buy it from, but you don't actually get to play with them unless you do what I said in my 1st paragraph. Lame.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213881)
Posted by Shadowman on April 25th, 2011 @ 4:56pm CDT

oldskooltf wrote:this preorder character crap is stupid.

Well get used to it, which I'm surprised you haven't already, because nearly every major game does it.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213882)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on April 25th, 2011 @ 5:00pm CDT

Anyone know how to unlock the WFC characters that are on the PC game disc? i sometimes see people playing as sentinal prime, so I'm sure they basically just found a way to hook his model into the multiplayer choices for the leader class...

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213907)
Posted by SlyTF1 on April 25th, 2011 @ 5:50pm CDT

MINDVVIPE wrote:Anyone know how to unlock the WFC characters that are on the PC game disc? i sometimes see people playing as sentinal prime, so I'm sure they basically just found a way to hook his model into the multiplayer choices for the leader class...

It's called modding.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213908)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on April 25th, 2011 @ 5:53pm CDT

SlyTF1 wrote:
MINDVVIPE wrote:Anyone know how to unlock the WFC characters that are on the PC game disc? i sometimes see people playing as sentinal prime, so I'm sure they basically just found a way to hook his model into the multiplayer choices for the leader class...

It's called modding.

Yea, do you KNOW how to MOD IT so it ALLOWS YOU TO PLAY AS ZETA PRIME? otherwise your post was pointless. Duh its modding. I've looked online and I don't see any instructions on HOW to mod it that way, so I was wondering if I could find some answers here.... :roll:

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213911)
Posted by SlyTF1 on April 25th, 2011 @ 5:57pm CDT

MINDVVIPE wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
MINDVVIPE wrote:Anyone know how to unlock the WFC characters that are on the PC game disc? i sometimes see people playing as sentinal prime, so I'm sure they basically just found a way to hook his model into the multiplayer choices for the leader class...

It's called modding.

Yea, do you KNOW how to MOD IT so it ALLOWS YOUR TO PLAY AS SENTINAL PRIME? otherwise your post was pointless. Duh its modding. I've looked online and I don't see any instructions on HOW to mod it that way, so i was wondering if I could find some answers here....

Oh. I've tried to mod a game, but all I did was screw the entire thing up.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213933)
Posted by Shadowman on April 25th, 2011 @ 6:44pm CDT

MINDVVIPE wrote:
SlyTF1 wrote:
MINDVVIPE wrote:Anyone know how to unlock the WFC characters that are on the PC game disc? i sometimes see people playing as sentinal prime, so I'm sure they basically just found a way to hook his model into the multiplayer choices for the leader class...

It's called modding.

Yea, do you KNOW how to MOD IT so it ALLOWS YOUR TO PLAY AS SENTINAL PRIME? otherwise your post was pointless. Duh its modding. I've looked online and I don't see any instructions on HOW to mod it that way, so i was wondering if I could find some answers here....

And it can get you banned from the game.

And there is not way to play as Sentinel Prime, what with him not appearing in WfC.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213934)
Posted by MINDVVIPE on April 25th, 2011 @ 6:46pm CDT

Shadowman wrote:And it can get you banned from the game.

And there is not way to play as Sentinel Prime, what with him not appearing in WfC.

Whoops I meant zeta prime. Yea, I had a feeling it can get you banned... I hope the numerous cheaters are getting banned... people I suspect as Slugga, and Phantasm... that one hit melee kill is a dead give away.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1213997)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on April 25th, 2011 @ 9:04pm CDT

Meh,Preorder bonuses have gotten really crappy in the past few years, i remember back when you use to get actual stuff like figures & cases now its just useless dlc. Unless you get a full blow DLC pack thats adds to every aspect of the game i could care less.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1214000)
Posted by FanimusMaximus on April 25th, 2011 @ 9:06pm CDT

That's one big A sword he's got there.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1214024)
Posted by Pr1meSuspect on April 25th, 2011 @ 9:46pm CDT

Sucks he is not in the full game. I remember he was the first character I wanted to play as in ROTF, only to learn he wasnt in the campaign. But I dont really care, money I could spend on DOTM could go towards something better like WFC2 or MW3.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1214081)
Posted by oldskooltf on April 26th, 2011 @ 12:12am CDT

Shadowman wrote:
oldskooltf wrote:this preorder character crap is stupid.

Well get used to it, which I'm surprised you haven't already, because nearly every major game does it.

I don't buy lots of games, but I do remember Halo Reach preorders unlocked a type of armor, Gears 2 preorders unlocked a golden weapon,...

But getting a specific character to me seems like a different ballgame. I mean, Sideswipe was in the 2nd movie, and now in the 3rd, and you only get to play with him in multiplayer if you preorder from a specific store??? Come on... that's very lame, and it was stupid in War for Cybertron too.

I know why this happens... it's to get people to (1) buy the game new and (2) get them to preorder from a specific store.

I know why it happens, and I am kinda used to preorder "perks", but that doesn't mean I have to like it nor do I have to find the Transformers games preorder stuff comparable to Halo's or Gears'.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1214098)
Posted by Shadowman on April 26th, 2011 @ 1:08am CDT

oldskooltf wrote:But getting a specific character to me seems like a different ballgame. I mean, Sideswipe was in the 2nd movie, and now in the 3rd, and you only get to play with him in multiplayer if you preorder from a specific store???

Sideswipe was barely in the movies. We're not talking about Optimus or Megatron here, we're talking about someone who had zero impact on the story and got what, three lines total? If it weren't for those three lines he'd basically be a background character, like Jolt, actually.

oldskooltf wrote:I know why it happens, and I am kinda used to preorder "perks", but that doesn't mean I have to like it nor do I have to find the Transformers games preorder stuff comparable to Halo's or Gears'.

You're thinking about this the wrong way entirely. You're assuming way too much for someone who is, in all likelihood, basically going to be an extra skin. Think about WfC; what exactly did Jazz, Shockwave, and Demolishor do in multiplayer? They had no special effects in multiplayer, and I'm willing to bet they had nothing special about them in Escalation either.

And this is easily comparable to Halo and Gears' preorder bonuses. It has no major impact on the game, and it's just there to show you preordered it. Which is entirely the point.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1214308)
Posted by SlyTF1 on April 26th, 2011 @ 5:01pm CDT

Shadowman wrote:
oldskooltf wrote:But getting a specific character to me seems like a different ballgame. I mean, Sideswipe was in the 2nd movie, and now in the 3rd, and you only get to play with him in multiplayer if you preorder from a specific store???

Sideswipe was barely in the movies. We're not talking about Optimus or Megatron here, we're talking about someone who had zero impact on the story and got what, three lines total? If it weren't for those three lines he'd basically be a background character, like Jolt, actually.

Actually, Sideswipe had 4 lines in ROTF. "Clear a path!" "Damn I'm good." "What is the meaning of this?" "Sam, I've spotted Sam!!!" (Gets shot). So, he had more lines than Jolt. Ratchet only got like 3 lines in ROTF.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1214310)
Posted by Blurrz on April 26th, 2011 @ 5:03pm CDT

Still....

You'll play multiplayer more than the story/campaign... well that's what normal people do. So you'll be playing as Sideswipe where it matters.

Re: Dark Of The Moon Gamestop Exclusive Preorder - Multiplayer Sideswipe (1217129)
Posted by #Sideways# on May 4th, 2011 @ 1:26pm CDT

Epic. Simply Epic.

I do see him in the preview playing that Gamespot did as an NPC, but I really want to play him.

I still want WFC... :-(