New Transformers game from Activision: "The War For Cybertron" UPDATE: Character images available.

I like, I like. Hopefully the story is heavily based on WWI. I'd be all for that. So far, the characters we've seen look good.

Awesome. Bout time we're getting a "G1" based game that seems like itll be good. Oh yeah & Soundwave looks kickass. I hope theres a toy version of him.

I can tell this is already WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY better than the armada, and the TFTM game. And G1 too! This is going good.

This is awesome.

*is too busy Jizzing over soundwave to say anything productive*

These look great, especially Soundwave. I'm impressed.

Please be on Wii, please be on Wii, please please please!!!!!

(Puts on a pair of Depends)

I think I wet myself.

(takes off and disposes of depends)

That's just flipping AWESOME. I love the new takes on the old G1 characters. Absolutely fantastic.

By the name and the designs this is looking to be a 'pre-earth' setting. Which looks pretty awesome.
Maybe having a bit more creative openness on the programmers' end will get rid of the crappy plots the previous TF games have had too.

*cleans up afer his nerdgasm* This looks like it's going to be sweet. I hope they have an online feature. Pleeeeeease pleaseplease let them have an online feature. And being able to "make your own transformer" would be nice too. I could see it easily being handled like they did for the DS games for the first transformers movie.

Hmm, looks interesting, but I hope it has nothing to do with the next toyline, I don't really like that look. Unless they reformat later in the game, of course.

Finally, the Transformers game I've always wanted, and it better be good! The Robot designs are pretty good, like a cross between War Within and movie style. Hmmm, online play on Cybertron, now that would be EPIC!

Egads! We're getting a new Transformer game! How awesome is this!?

I like these new designs, specially Optimus and Soundwave. Don't think I actually want figures of them but I do like the look.

Hopefully Don's taking notice of these awesome designs.

These designs are awesome. IDW's Transformers Ongoing's designs? Not so much.

Oh man, this looks awesome!

Seibertron wrote:Hopefully Don's taking notice of these awesome designs.

These designs are awesome. IDW's Transformers Ongoing's designs? Not so much.

Yes. I totally agree. When I saw that sweet pic of Megs on the home page, I got more excited than I have in recent memory.

this looks good! me want! now!

Anyone else see the Unicron-like thing behind Prime? And if this is not on the Wii, I damn well better be getting Xbox 360 for Christmas.

I'm gonna be cautiously optimistic here. While the game LOOKS jaw droppingly cool(can't wait to get my next Game Informer to read the article), I'll have to see it in action via the mentioned trailer before I get too excited. Remember, the Movie based games LOOK great, but they don't play as well as they look. I'm hoping here for game to be a bit more along the lines of TF: Armada than the Movie games.

This looks really good and ill wait to see the game trailers to get my final thought. Well i was gonna get a Wii, but now maybe a PS3 instead..

The images here look great. However the first movie was so painfully bad that I haven't bothered picking up the second one. I heard the second game got about the same review as the first, so that's not good. I don't remember who made those two games, but hopefully different people are making War for Cybertron.

Otherwise it will be a really cool looking piece of crap.

Optimus looks a lot like he might transform into the gray proto that was shown here: http://tformers.com/transformers-unknown-transformers-action-figure-molds-deluxe-drift/12567/news.html.

This had better be good...

MUST HAVE ON WII!

Wow, this is really great. This is some heartwarming news am I right people? There's been a lot of negativity in the fandom as of late what with disappointing sequels, questionable creative choices in the comics, etc. But this, this feels like a really special present from a loved one.

To: the fans
- sorry things haven't been going the way you'd hoped. Hope this helps!

From: the Transformers you know and love

Like c'mon! A G1 War Within styled game?! Even my wild imagination wouldn't have the audacity to wish for something so unlikely! But here we are.
A lot of you are worried about quality (and rightly so). I think it's gonna be a great game! Here's why. You can't really compare this to the movie games because it isn't one. Movie games have a notorious reputation for being terrible. This is because movies and video games are constructed in ways very different from each other. Movies are made quickly and can change things on the fly leaving the video game tie-in rushed and unable to keep up. They're playable but lack a lot of polish and fine tuning. This 'War for Cybertron' isn't tied to anything current so it'll likely receive due artistic attention.

I'm super excited about this game and hope it cheers everyone up!

Meh, don't see what you all are so worked up about. The designs are blah at best. Looks like they were trying to incorporate G1 with both Movieverse and War Within. Too jagged and pointy.

But if the gameplay rocks, thats all that really matters.

Megatron's alt mode is reminiscent of a Robotech's hovertank.

It looks as if Megatron's chest shows styling ques from Takara's Henkei Classics Megatron! Don't want to get hopes up, but this does have the look of success. Hope the story is rich and indepth!

Is it me or does it look as if Prime and Megatron are heavily based on their Animated Cybertron- mode designs just in a more movieish ecstatic?

Looks pretty sweet but I doo hope the actual stuff looks better than we can see on these low res scans.

After seeing these new pics i want to preorder now. Finally the TF ive always wanted. Completely based on cybertron. Megatron looks awesome. Finally no more damn flying vehicle alt. Hes a tank once again like he should be. Im liking the new look, its different but still looks like Transformers. I really hope theres going to be toys for this. I say they should just get the EA guys to make the next movie. They seem to know what we want. Cant wait to see more.

This looks very promising, It's nice to have a TF game thats not based around the movies for a change. From the images I like the look of the game already.

Haha, well I had a double shift at work yesterday and didn't get online for a while today...all I can say is wow, really looking forward to this one.

If this doesn't get a PS2 release it'll force me to upgrade to the PS3, 'bout time I had a reason.

Dead Metal wrote:Is it me or does it look as if Prime and Megatron are heavily based on their Animated Cybertron- mode designs just in a more movieish ecstatic?

I think Megatron looks more of a mix of Classics Megatron and TFA Megatron. The Optimus Prime in the game only has one big feature that reminds me of the TFA Cybertron form, which is the way the wheels are placed in the shoulders.



I'm looking forward to more news about the game.

Yeah. Saw this yesterday. Hasbro's accepting the plot as actual canon.

Decepticlone Soundwave wrote:I like, I like. Hopefully the story is heavily based on WWI. I'd be all for that. So far, the characters we've seen look good.

It's not WWI-based. It's based on battles before the TFs came to Earth.

Ok, so what happened to the rest of the pictures? I checked for a very brief moment this morning on my way out the door on my iTouch and thought "holy crap, this looks fantastic. Can't wait to see more when I get home tonight from work." I come home and all but the Soundwave picture is up? The deuce?

If it plays half as well as ROTF did, then I'll be happy. I would really like it to play like Borderlands mind you, or even something like brutal legend. But, I'll get really excited when the trailer comes out.

I wonder if anything will be shown at the Spike TV Video Game Awards?

Sweet mother of...

You mean we'll get a Transformers game that doesn't suck? The Armada game played fairly well but didn't feature many characters. TF: Tataki included a whole array of G1 characters and then fell short on gameplay. The visual design's amazing on this. I'd enjoy seeing an earth segment, but I can forgo it in favor of solidly built play value. Hopefully we'll have a sense of desperation while playing as Autobots and of domination while playing as Decepticons. It's not an even match!

It sounds like it's going to be very story-orientated which will be a good first for the Transformers Games (minus Tatakai which had a good story but overall kinda sucked).

The Decepticon campaign is supposed to focus on Megatron's rise to power, and the Autobot one will be dealing with the Decepticon threat as renegades or some such and the evacuation of Cybertron. So we're being given a real opportunity to immerse ourselves in a moment of Cybertronian history rarely seen outside of the comics!

It also shows that, hopefully, the Activision guys have really put some thought and feeling into this. Giant robots duking it out can have emotions too. In fact, that's what separates Transformers from a lot of other giant-mech franchises.

I'm also very impressed and excited to hear that you will play as part of a team instead of completely solo. Thus far, I think only Revenge Of The Fallen let you play alongside any team mates, and only for about one mission in either faction (as Ratchet helping Ironhide and Longhaul helping Grindor), and that really use to irritate me. Transformers has always been about factions and teams and the issues when those contrasting personalities battle it out within a group and it has never been realised in a game, until now. Hopefully there'll be a lot of interesting banter between team-mates during play. And hopefully they'll be intelligent and responsive unlike the teams in Tatakai.

Not sure what I think of the designs. I don't like them because of the same argument used for the Bay-formers - You can't really distinguish what they turn into. There aren't any wheels or doors or vehicle machinery in general, but this is rightly so, as they are Cybertronian vehicles. However it is just a small aspect I think we got used to over the last twenty-something years and were reluctant to let go when the movies rolled around. On the other hand, they are recognisable as our favourite robots and that's enough for me.

What I'm looking forward to most though is, of course, the ending. Will it show them blasting off for Earth? When Prime evacuates the planet, they're going to have to go somewhere. And if so... Sequel?

Bring on the trailer!

Holy ass!!! I knew it! Yesterday, I was at Kmart and I saw a ROTF Long Haul, I picked it up and a flier fell out of the bix, it had all of the other ROTF toys and other crap like that, at the very back, it said Transformers official video game, rating RP. I was like HOLY CRAP! And this confirms it right here! Cant freking wait! T's 'bout time we be getin a G1 game!

Megatron Wolf wrote:After seeing these new pics i want to preorder now. Finally the TF ive always wanted. Completely based on cybertron. Megatron looks awesome. Finally no more damn flying vehicle alt. Hes a tank once again like he should be. Im liking the new look, its different but still looks like Transformers. I really hope theres going to be toys for this. I say they should just get the EA guys to make the next movie. They seem to know what we want. Cant wait to see more.

Or mabey this game is a setup for the new Tf series1!!??? (GASP)

First off Scatterlung, Tatakai is the best game ever created seconded only by Bible Adventures for NES and Twisted Metal 2 for Playstation. This will give all mentioned above a run for their money.

Second I straight up punked those scanned images from the good folks over at the allspark. Yeah them.

















This last one might give us a good idea what that bizarre resin prototype was from a while back. Also thanks to one of the chaps at Allspark for mocking that up and letting me teef it.



I will be all over the internet like Oprah on a BLT tonight to make sure Seibertron sees the trailer FIRST, I promise you that.

Down_Shift wrote:First off Scatterlung, Tatakai is the best game ever created seconded only by Bible Adventures for NES and Twisted Metal 2 for Playstation. This will give all mentioned above a run for their money.

Second I straight up punked those scanned images from the good folks over at the allspark. Yeah them.

















This last one might give us a good idea what that bizarre resin prototype was from a while back. Also thanks to one of the chaps at Allspark for mocking that up and letting me teef it.



I will be all over the internet like Oprah on a BLT tonight to make sure Seibertron sees the trailer FIRST, I promise you that.

Now, THAT is frekin awsum! Even better than the animated designs! And animkated had some of my favorite designs, animated and the movie designs are tied for me

SlyTF1 wrote:Now, THAT is frekin awsum! Even better than the animated designs! And animkated had some of my favorite designs, animated and the movie designs are tied for me

I like how you can see design cues from past incarnations.

BTW, next time you quote someone with a ton of pictures, make sure you delete all the pictures first or we end up with a thread full of the same pictures.

Ungie wrote:I can tell this is already WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY better than the armada, and the TFTM game. And G1 too! This is going good.

Armada & TF ROTF are the best TF games to date, and I don't see a TF game being better then that. The first G1 game had very bad gameplay, and the graphics were ou of date, but it had a great G1 atmosphere, play as Rodimus Prime, Arcee, battle Predaking etc. Hopefully there will be toys, still hoping for Movie 1 Shockwave from the first game.

Still, I'm going to have a great time playing it, even if it is bad. There are tons of good games nowadays but there are hardly TF games.

Not being a movie or series tie-in, the game developers hopefully will have a good amount of time to build and pollish.

Great times ahead!!!

I almost exploded when I saw this!! I just hope it's like the Armada game. That game's STILL exciting to play, and it only has 3 characters and 7 levels (Unicron's no fun).

But, since we don't know anything about the gameplay, I must reserve my excitement. I wonder if it's gonna have an online community? I don't have a 360 or PS3, but this will actually give me a good reason. It'll be nice to actually communicate with someone outside of school for once

I like these designs just as much; they look like Optimus and Megatron and Soundwave and Ironhide and... Straxus( )? That's all I care about. Our beloved characters are recognizable and they look badass and Serious.

I can see why Bay and the Movie people didn't care much about the Fandom's opinion when they went with their designs for the movie. Or, when they decided that the Beast Wars should be fought by Maximals and Predacons. Or, when IDW Greenlighted Don's designs for the Ongoing comic(which are, for lack of a better term, "Ultra Gear"). As a fandom, we are, truely, a bunch of whining babies to the Production teams. Babies have no idea what they want, they just know they want Something. So, the Heads of these production companies get their people together with Hasbro, Hasbro appoints someone who loves the Transformers brand and that they can trust to helm the project, and they all try to show us something different. These designs are just as radically different as Don's work on the ongoing comic. But strangely, strange even to this Seibertronian, There's no Glitching and Moaning. There's no vicious, flailing, temper-tantrum attacks on the designs, or psychological cross-sections about what an Opinion is, or dissertations about the elusively SUBJECTIVE nature of "what's good" and "what's bad" this time around.

<*Sigh*>

Poor Don. Poor US(Transformers fans). Oh well. Hasbro is laughing about this right now, and the Transformers brand will live on and continue to evolve. Yay.( )
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