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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron multiplayer faces Dinobot Destructor Pack next week
More robots will meet the eye in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron multiplayer next week. Game director Matt Tieger told Polygon that a "Dinobot Destructor Pack" is coming on September 11, which will add Dinobots Grimlock, Slug, Snarl, and Swoop to the character creator, for use and customization in the multiplayer mode. The Insecticons will follow, Tieger said.The Dinobots were originally excluded from multiplayer, as they didn't fit into the existing classes. However, the team tweaked them all to fit into the existing vehicle types while still being Dinobots. "I came in on Monday morning and there was a tyrannosaurus-rex running around in multiplayer," Tieger said. "I have never been happier to have been proven wrong."
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron review - Heir to mobility
Any fun-loving game that goes out of its way to explain the grim origin of a Tyrannosaurus robot – which I'd consider a kind of self-evident narrative atom – deserves a hug. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, you are adorable.That adjective should slide right off the metallic war machines that inhabit and eventually disintegrate their home planet of Cybertron, but it sticks somehow. Developer High Moon Studios exhibits earnestness in its depiction of a civilization-turning-scrapheap, alongside a mastery of what Unreal Engine 3 is best at: huge, vivid, shiny, exploding stuff. You could probably nitpick the adherence to Transformers canon if it weren't for the distracting fact that most of the characters, err, transform into cannons.%Gallery-163295%
Stiq Flicks: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron and Real Steel
Stiq Flicks – from film and video game industry freelance writer Kevin Kelly – examines video games and attempts to pair them with matching films. It's like wine and cheese, but with more aliens. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron rolled out this week and while we wouldn't have such a renewed interest in the franchise without the shudder-inducing films of Michael Bay, thankfully there have been other giant robot movies to turn to. Equally as thankful is the fact that High Moon Studios didn't have to tie their game, which is highly enjoyable, into one of Bay's awful films. When I was working at Jim Henson Pictures, we had a film tentatively titled Giant Robot on our slate, and while it sadly got stuck in development hell (the place where Hollywood projects go to die), working on that script with the writers was one of those perfect geek moments where you get to combine something you love with something you love doing. We would not have been the first to tackle such a project, with a long line of Japanese films and television shows before us, as well as the cheesy yet enjoyable Robot Jox having preceded us by many years. But what tends to boggle the mind is that with a concept as awesome as a massive robot, the best that the movie industry has been able to give us has until recently been The Iron Giant. Heck, they even fumbled the iconic Japanese Astro Boy, which should have been nigh-impossible. Then again, this is Hollywood we're talking about. With Guillermo del Toro's awesome Pacific Rim towering on the horizon, and a possible Transformers reboot (albeit still with Michael Bay at the helm) on the way, there are a lot of fighting robots in our future. But as far as circuits and steel pounding it out in the ring, we're highlighting the fun and often overlooked Real Steel to go with Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. %Gallery-163295%
PSA: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron demo out now
The Transformers: Fall of Cybertron demo is available now on Xbox Live and will be out later today on PSN when the store updates. The demo features both single and multiplayer modes of cybernetic warfare. The single-player mode, sadly, does not let you try out Dinobot Grimlock, instead placing youin the role of Bumblebee, along with the Decepticon Vortex.The multiplayer portion features Team Deathmatch and Conquest modes, along with the option to try out the game's character customizer.Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will transform into a retail box and roll out on August 21.
Pre-order Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, get G1 Optimus Prime
This trailer for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron features sweet guitar solos and a transforming G1 Optimus Prime. Players that pre-order the High Moon Studios-developed game at GameStop receive exclusive weapons and the G1 Optimus Prime character for use in both single-player and multiplayer modes.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron demo available next week, now for GameStop preorders
If you've been waiting to get your hands on the latest Transformers title, the wait is nearly over. Activision has announced that the Transformers: Fall of Cybertron demo should be arriving on Xbox Live and PSN on July 31. Players who download it will be able to play through two single-player missions (High Moon Studios has been showing off two missions starring Bumblebee and Grimlock at various events recently, so odds are it's those two), as well as dip into multiplayer and the in-depth customization system.And if that's even too long for you, you can preorder the game at GameStop. Customers who preorder the game there are getting access to the demo as soon as, well, now. Imagine this one in your best Peter Cullen voice: Autobots, roll out!
UK pre-order bonuses take shape for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is dropping some hot pre-order bonuses across the UK, if fans order early through Game, Play, Shopto and other independent retailers. Pre-ordering from Game gets players a code to unlock the G1 Retro Pack, which includes a playable G1 Optimus Prime from the original 1980s animated show, for both single and multiplayer campaigns. The G1 Retro Pack also includes the G1-inspired Megatron gun and Shockwave Blast Cannon for single-player runs.Play pre-orders unlock Swoop, the flying Dinobot, for multiplayer. Shopto and other independent retailers will offer the G2 Bruticus skin, taken from the classic toyline model, for single-player.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron multiplayer rolls out at San Diego Comic-Con 2012
Activision has a whole mess of stuff planned for this year's San Diego Comic-Con, starting with the first taste of multiplayer in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.High Moon Studios will announce a new Marvel game (likely Hit Monkey) during a panel on Saturday, and Activision will also show off new footage of both 007 Legends and the recently announced FPS tie-in for The Walking Dead. For Activision's full San Diego Comic-Con 2012 schedule, hit up the source link below.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron falling sooner than expected
Much like a Transformer itself, the launch date for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron has turned into something else entirely. Specifically, the planned launch of August 28 has transformed into August 21, a full week earlier. Activision has also released a new trailer featuring Metroplex, the gigantic Transformer who (we're assuming) turns into a fully functional movie theater.
Autobots roll out (sometimes) in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Developer High Moon Studios showed it had a lot of love for the Transformers franchise with War for Cybertron, but sullied its goodwill with fans when a rushed Dark of the Moon movie tie-in hit store shelves. Now the studio's returning to Hasbro's toy line once again, leaving behind the Michael Bay-inspired setting of the films.Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, on the surface, seems like a return to High Moon's true love: telling its own stories about giant, talking transforming robots. Separating itself from the films, Fall of Cybertron leaves High Moon free to geek out about Autobot and Decepticon history, wrapping it all up in Gears of War-style third-person shooter gameplay. And as High Moon said about the first game way back when, the emphasis here is supposed to be on freedom, and the unique ability to play as a robot or vehicle, switching whenever you want.But for all of High Moon's enthusiasm about transforming, the demo on display at E3 was less-than-flattering to the series and its promise of complete freedom.%Gallery-156599%
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron also rolling out on PC
By their very nature, Transformers are adept at changing forms and adapting to new situations. So, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the Autobot's forthcoming adventure on Cybertron should so effortlessly transmogrify itself from a console title to a PC game.Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will launch on PCs on August 28, 2012, concurrent with the game's console release on PS3 and 360. Keep in mind, this is the PC release of a Transformers game, and not the release of a PC Transformer, like we had originally inferred. Alas, the day when we'll be able to go on thrilling adventures with a wise-cracking anthropomorphized laptop is still somewhere over the horizon.
Grimlock transforms, bites and smashes in latest Fall of Cybertron trailer
All some people need to know about High Moon Studios' Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, available August 28, is that it features the king of the Dinobots doing what he does best. And, by "some people," we mean us. Grimlock, smash!
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron devs explain how gameplay has transformed
Driving up hot on the heels of yesterday's Transformers: Fall of Cybertron release date announcement (August 28) is a new trailer and a behind-the-scenes clip.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron rolls out August 28
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will bring the dramatis robotae of the doomed planet to retailers on August 28.The official date comes from the latest trailer posted on Gamespot, which not only features an Inception horn, but a serving of dubstep -- only Kanye West's "Power" is missing for the perfect trailer trifecta.Fall of Cybertron is currently in development at High Moon Studios, the team behind the well-received Transformers: War for Cybertron, with some upgrades.%Gallery-148256%
The beautiful death of a planet in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
As much as I'd like to feel sorry for the decimation of Cybertron, home of my childhood heroes, developer High Moon studios left me craving even more destruction with Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.Transformers: Fall of Cybertron takes place during the final hours of a civil war that eventually destroys the planet. The Decepticons have won, driving the Autobots to seek a new home somewhere amongst the stars. As Optimus Prime and his Autobot buddies race to find a way off the planet, Megatron and his dastardly Decepticons seek to rid the universe of all Autobot life. They're big old meanies like that.%Gallery-148256%
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron rolls out in the fall of 2012
If you prick an Autobot, does it not leak Energon? If you stare longingly into Bumblebee's eyes, is it not kinda weird a bit? If a Dinobot roars, do you not run for your life, screaming and crying and probably peeing your pants a little all at the same time? Yeah, we thought so. Based on the VGA 2011 teaser above, it looks like Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will have all of those things. And Devastator.
The first Transformers: Fall of Cybertron trailer is dark, whompy
If Cybertron is truly as foggy and dismal as the first video for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron makes it seem, we think that maybe it's a good thing that whole junk pile is going down. But we do love those transforming sounds -- whomp whomp whomp whirrwhomp -- so maybe it'll be worth saving.
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron coming from High Moon, has a transforming dino
Do we need to say anything else? Maybe we weren't clear enough in the headline -- transforming dinosaur. Okay, okay, it's Grimlock, and apparently he's taking dinosaur form in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, the next project from Transformers: War for Cybertron devs High Moon Studios. Game Informer unveiled the title and concept shots for the long-ago teased game via its latest cover reveal, which features both Optimus Prime and the aforementioned Grimlock on a metallic battlefield. Few details are given other than the game's title and development house, though GI's site plans to blow out more as the weeks go on, and the magazine will have more details when it arrives later this month. We're gonna go all the way crazy and assume the game will arrive on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 at the very least, though no platforms were given in the announcement. What was in the announcement, though? An incredible mechanical dinosaur. Update: Activision added a few more details in its own press release, which confirmed the game as an Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 title and said it's set to launch in fall 2012. Try and look surprised!
