Transformers: War for Cybertron

Rolling out: the history of Transformers video games

With both Transformers: Age of Extinction and Rise of the Dark Spark arriving this week, the robots in disguise will be rolling out in force and arriving onto the new generation of consoles. The robots have found their niche as of late, thanks to High Moon Studios' recent releases on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, including the well-received Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. While we wait to pass judgment on this new adventure, we decided to look back on some of the Transformers games of old. Not every one was a success, and some were a downright pain in the gas tank, but they have come a long way

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Wot I Think: Transformers Fall of Cybertron

Third-person shooter Transformers: Fall of Cybertron was released yesterday in North America, but due to a last-minute bait and switch is still a couple of days off in the UK. I’ve cannoned my way through the singleplayer campaign, which I can tell you about below. A multiplayer report will follow, by the way – at the moment, the staggered release date and attendant timezone issues are styming me from being able to get any games in, but that will change very soon. (more…)

Fall of Cybertron Tomorrow/War For Cybertron Today

I suspect Peter Cullen could tell me he’d just murdered my mother, eaten my cat in a sandwich and set fire to my feet and I’d feel impossibly comforted, just so long as he did it in his Optimus Prime voice. It’s that and many more giant robot-based, entirely unbreakable associations with childhood joy and wonder which means I’m excited to a slightly alarming degree about the sequel to a distinctly average action game. Launch trailer below, and, perhaps more usefully, some details on how to make the previous game, War For Cybertron, a whole lot less bland. (more…)

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Prime Optimus – Fall of Cybertron PC Details

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Has A Robot Or Two

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High Moon Just Can't Handle a PC Version of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron

This fall when Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gamers are tearing through Cybertron in the shiny metal skin of Grimlock, PC gamers will remain earthbound, forced to witness the grand robot battles from afar. After a poor showing on the PC for Transformers: War for Cybertron, High Moon Studios isn't even going to attempt to port the follow-up. It's simply beyond their capabilities. PC gamers were severely disappointed with the version of Transformers: War for Cybertron released on their platform of choice, a glitchy, bug-ridden mess with graphics capped at 30 frames per second, a by-product of con

The Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Teaser Knows Exactly What I Want

I don't need to see Optimus Prime or Megatron. They can save the large scale battles for future trailers. Hell, I don't even need color. Just give me Grimlock and I'm good. All I really know about the next Transformers game from the developers of War for Cybertron is that combiners might make an appearance, the plot sounds eerily similar to the previous game, and it's got Grimlock. That last bit alone is enough for me to forgive the seemingly repeating plot and the fact that Cybertronian Grimlock is somehow a dinosaur. If it really bugged me that much I would have complained about Trypticon i

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron announced

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, a direct sequel to 2010 actioner War for Cybertron, is on its way. GameInformer has the scoop but is being stingy with the details, only revealing that High Moon Studios returns on dev duty and that the Activision-published game continues the story of the civil war raging between the Autobots and Decepticons. Its report claims that the title "changes and improves upon so many of the fundamental ideas that the developer considers the game a natural successor rather than a true sequel." High Moon's first effort was solid enough fare, picking up a 6/10 from Euroga

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The Transformers: Dark of the Moon Video Game Made Me a Clumsy Autobot

It's a good thing the Autobots, Decepticons, and the rest of their ilk are sentient robots. It would be an absolute nightmare to pilot them if they weren't. That's the thought that kept running through my head as I played through the first few hours of Transformers: Dark of the Moon's single player campaign. That's not to say it's a terrible game (we'll get to that), it's just indicative of the biggest hurdle you'll have to overcome when playing this game—especially if you, like myself, are uninitiated into the world of modern Transformers games. Storywise, the game is a prequel or prol

Transformers: WFC sequel announced

A sequel to Activision's Transformers: War for Cybertron is set for release in 2012. Confirmation comes from Hasbro, the company that makes the Transformers toys that take up all the space in ASDA. Hasbro was well chuffed with War for Cybertron, which Eurogamer awarded a solid 6/10. "This is the most highly-rated, critical success of any game that's had the Hasbro brand yet and we're looking forward to a sequel in 2012," Mark Blecher, SVP and General Manager of Digital Media & Gaming, said (as reported by IGN). IGN reckons High Moon Studios, creator of the first game, is at the helm. It's

Two New Warriors Join The War For Cybertron

The second pack of downloadable content for Transformers: War for Cybertron drops today, with five new multiplayer maps and the addition of two new playable Cybertronian warriors: Zeta Prime and Dead End. While we had plenty of warning for the first downloadable content pack for Transformers: War for Cybertron, Activision springs the second pack on us by surprise. This second pack of downloadable content lowers the new character count from four to two but gives us five brand new maps, including two new escalation maps: Pulse for the Autobots and Static for the Decepticons. Pulse sees players t