War For Cybertron - Best Buy Exclusive Character to be Jazz

So I have to choose between Shockwave form Gamestop and Jazz form Best Buy?

That SUCKS!

Jazz fans bang heads in discovery after preordering elsewhere.

I had yet to pre-order this, and now I know where I will be pre-ordering it from!!

Shockwave is nice, but nothing beats Jazz!

Oh brother!!! I hope they don't do this here in Portugal.
I have nothing against Demolisher but chose between Jazz and Sockwave is very cruel to complicate even more probable we will see some other company putting other exclusive like Prowl, Bliztwing, Astrotrain or Wheeljack. I hope someone cracks this exclusives so by this way we will have all of them!

I guess I'll just transfer the preorder money to my Super Street Fighter purchase tomorrow at Gamestop and go for the Best Buy preorder. By the way Blurrz, thanks for crediting me.

I hate this kind of cheap pandering, hey developers/retailers, how about we get the FULL game no matter where we purchase it?

How can they not see this will cause backlash from the fans? All these characters should be available up front. At the very least, all these added characters should be available via download, and the retail purchase character is just saving the user a few bucks when they purchase the others.

Whoever birthed this concept in videogames needs to be fired.

Arrrgh, I bet the next exclusive character will be Grimlock. This s*cks.

Sid Burn wrote:Whoever birthed this concept in videogames needs to be fired.

"From a cannon. Into the Sun."

DAMN YOU!!!!!! Now where will I preorder from? Huh!? I had my mind set on Shockwave but now they come out with Jazz! This is torturing me to no end! Is this how you like to see your customers!? Broken and confused!? I wont stand for it! I will not. I guess now, Ill just have to get both. The only thing that will break this is if they have an exclusive Unicron, Primus, or maybe even Grimlock ith a fire sword like in Animated.

It says you get a code in the pack that allows you to unlock Jazz. If thats the case won't the code just get posted on the net so we will all be able to unlock whatever character we want. Or someone will crack the code so we can download what skins we want. Hopefully it's just a skin, and his abilities etc are just a clone of another character. That would be annoiying if exclusive characters gave better advantages in the game that aren't available unless you have pre-ordered from a particular shop.

Updated the news with a new video and picture

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This bullsh** with exclusives is getting out of hand. Companies want you to buy a product but then drive you crazy in trying to get it, or at least get a version you want.

This is why I usally opt just not to buy from anywhere at all and just do without. Life's too short to be wasting time on figuring out this nonsense.

Aww eff...now I'm torn between Shockwave and Jazz

...Screw it, I'm going with Jazz

No, why do they have to do this to me!!!

This is my favorite character and I already have this pre-ordered at Gamestop. I was really getting to like the idea of playing as Shockwave but now with Jazz I want him more. Why oh why do they have to do this to us it's torture.

Oh man that picture of Jazz looks awesome.

Great now i need to decide between Jazz & Shockwave, i hate in game preorder exclusives.

Glad I haven't preordered mine yet lol! Usually though ithe codes just unlock stuff right away instead of having to beat requirements in the game. So I think all these will be available in game anyway. If not, at least DLC. Jazz does look pretty sweet though

Now that Ive seen the gameplay trailer, time to go wit Jazz!!!

Has there been any discussion about the platform differences? I notice that only XBOX and PS3 are getting "exclusive" characters, and that the Wii version is $10 cheaper. Aside from graphics, anyone know of any other differences? I'm already getting an XBOX version for me and Wii version for my son, but still curious.

Please remember the emphasis on the word "unlock" people.
A month or so after it's released you'll probably have full access through the online stores anyway.

However, as good as Jazz looks I am tempted...

Vicalliose wrote:Please remember the emphasis on the word "unlock" people.
A month or so after it's released you'll probably have full access through the online stores anyway.

However, as good as Jazz looks I am tempted...

My thoughts exactly. It would be an ignorant move for Activition to allow ONLY one extra character. These "exclusives" are just a way to start you off while giving you an option of buying the rest as DLC; the icing on the cake. Only issue for consumers is deciding on which to get for free with the game in choosing the respective retailer. Being a Jazz purist, I'll go ahead and purchase the game at Best Buy. Honestly though, the wait until June is killing me.

anybody know what is gonna happen with this game in the U.K?
Will there be bonuses or unlockables or what not for specific stores here?

I missed out on a special edition of a game a few months back b'cos in my excitement to buy it from my local store i didn't know there were 2 versions...

Going with Shockwave from Gamestop, Jazz is sweet but I'm more interested in what sort of abilities they'd give to Shockwave. Demolishor is nice but I wasn't a really big fan of Armada at all so that's a no-brainer for me. So, Shockwave it is!

dang that's smoov!

now i am truely perplexed

shocky or jazz?!

Chaoslock wrote:Arrrgh, I bet the next exclusive character will be Grimlock. This s*cks.

Sid Burn wrote:Whoever birthed this concept in videogames needs to be fired.

"From a cannon. Into the Sun."

Futurama quote FTW!

Jazz looks sick. I'm sure we'll be able to unlock all the characters eventually...I suggest putting the codes up in the Video Games Forum here eventually so we all have easy access without having to dig it up on the net.

Jazz in alt mode looks super sexy. Makes me want to make a character with his skin.

To all the people who complain about exclusive characters, it's a business. Companies are willing to spend extra amount of money to get consumers to buy the game at their place. Like people said, all the characters will probably be downloadable or the code to unlock them will show up a week later after the game launches.

From what I can tell this looks like the same thing they did with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, in that different stores had specific character codes in them that allowed you to unlock said character early. However it was just a button input code that could be used by anyone, so once posted online anyone could unlock the characters from the other store releases. That was also an Activision release I believe, so I think they're doing the same thing here. So in the end I think everyone will be happy and have access to which ever character they would prefer.

I love Jazz..........will best buy refund pre-order money???

erm you do realise the game doesnt differ from store to stre? its just a code which unlocks a certain character so within a day all the codes will be put online so you can just unlock them anyways?

Games companies dont make 5 different versions of the game just put a different slip of paper in different batches for unlocks.

No need to get bent out of shape

AutobotOutlaw wrote:From what I can tell this looks like the same thing they did with Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, in that different stores had specific character codes in them that allowed you to unlock said character early. However it was just a button input code that could be used by anyone, so once posted online anyone could unlock the characters from the other store releases. That was also an Activision release I believe, so I think they're doing the same thing here. So in the end I think everyone will be happy and have access to which ever character they would prefer.

Hmmm...

Unfortunately, not all of the MUA2 exclusive characterswere unlocked the same way...

As I recall, although Hulk, for example, merely required a packed in code or the fulfillment of certain in-game objectives (that's right, you didn't actually need the code to unlock him), Juggernaut pretty much necessitated actually preordering from Gamestop because you had to register your game and they had limited 'supplies'.

So the big question, to my mind, is which, if any, of the characters will require this sort of registration?

He looks amazing..

Best Buy it is.

Cool graphics. Should have been a toy series instead of a video game. I would definitally buy a few. But Im really not into video games...

I'll take a Generations toy of that please and thank you.

I will give it a couple of weeks. If all the characters are not in the game I won't buy of them. These game cost too much not to have every possible thing the developers can put in them.

T-RAV wrote:I love Jazz..........will best buy refund pre-order money???

I dunno how Best Buy is, but i know with Gamestop, the $5 you put down on the pre-order goes towards the purchase of the game when it comes out.

I was wondering has anyone gone to Best Buy to pre-order this game from them? I went in the other day and they told me they didn't have a pre-order for it yet even though when I type in my zip code and there is the store next to me I went to.

Jenus wrote:I was wondering has anyone gone to Best Buy to pre-order this game from them? I went in the other day and they told me they didn't have a pre-order for it yet even though when I type in my zip code and there is the store next to me I went to.

I don't think all places will have the pre-orders up yet. In fact, you might only be able to set up a preorder for this game only through websites right now. Not sure though as I don't work at any of these places, but I DO know that most places have stock items listed on their websites long before they have them available. So maybe the preorders won't be up until the middle of May. Again though, I can't really be sure cause I don't really know, just speculating and assuming and guessing and other words that mean I know nothing.