Well it seems the multi-player component of Transformers: War for Cybertron is doing what we really want of the game – allowing us to make our own shooty robots that specialise in shooting other shooty robots.

Purists may scoff at the classes being generic ‘Scientist’, ‘Leader’ and ‘Scout’ rather than stuff like ‘Seeker’, ‘The One to light their Darkest Hour’ and… erm…  ‘Scout’!

The most important fact about the trailer after the cut? 22/06/2010 is when we get to play this, making it 75 days (and counting) till we get this.

Woot!

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War for Cybertron is edging closer and keeps looking better and better.  What’s more, High Moon Studios are fans of the Transformers metaverse and seem to want to do things right.

In an interview with Game Trailers at the GDC (after the cut), Matt Tieger relates the Civil War back story and the backwards-up approach taken when developing the game (‘get a good game working, then stick a license on top’, as opposed to ‘here’s some money and a license, get it working by next week’).

If this works, it could be very, very good, especially when 3-way co-op, 2 … Read More...

As a result, reservations were cast and everyone moved on, leaving everyone firmly divided into either the ‘wait and see’ or ‘it’ll be a pile of poo’ camp.  After all, every other attempt to provide a video game outlet for everyone’s favourite Robots in Disguise has been average at best.

Well, now Activision have given us a trailer, which lives after the cut.

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Before I start, I completely understand that this might turn out too be a pile of turgid shit.

Transformers is one of those licenses that seem a sure-fire easy way to make the best game in the world ever, yet often falls flat on its face in execution.  Actually, following the unchecked brilliance of Arkham Asylum, I think it’s safe to say that it’s top of the misused license pile following Batman’s departure

Still, War for Cybetron is set prior to first contact with Earth (re: no squishy humans), features lots of animated robot violence and is set for … Read More...