Your character can shift from robot to vehicle and vice versa at the touch of a button no matter what you are doing. Transformation can be done at any point altering gameplay significantly. It is not a cover based shooter, but due to precision being required it isn't entirely arcadey either. War for Cybertron's core shooter gameplay is a cross between Gears of War's slow paced tactical shooting and Ratchet and Clank's high speed arcade shooting.

You will follow him on his rise to power and his spiraling decent towards becoming the evil character he is more commonly known as, he wishes to initiate the 'rebirth of Cybertron's golden age' through any means necessary.īoth campaigns are fully playable in drop in, drop out co-op with up to three players. The second campaign follows the Decepticons and features Megatron as the main character. But as the campaign progresses, he rises to assume his position as Prime and become the eventual leader of the Autobots. Of course, Optimus is most widely known to audiences as Optimus Prime, but in War for Cybertron, Optimus has not yet become a Prime and is not very high in rank-often taking orders. There is the Autobot campaign where the player follows Optimus on his quest to unite the Autobots and defeat the Decepticons. There are two different campaigns detailing the war of Cybertron. No further word came of this until October 2011, when a GameInformer-exclusive story announced Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, still intended for a 2012 release. In November 2010, Hasbro announced that a sequel was being planned for a 2012 release. Both classes had a level cap of 3 (the retail game level cap being 25).Īlthough originally intended as a stand-alone storyline, Hasbro has since officially made War for Cybertron, and 'Exodus', the tie-in novel, canon as the backstory of the newest animated series, 'Transformers: Prime'. Players were also limited to only selecting the Soldier or Scout class. To its own demise however, it was multiplayer-only, with Team Deathmatch and Conquest being the two available modes. It has three player co-op in both campaigns, but local co-op with neither, unfortunately, and an extensive multiplayer component with class customization similar to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series.Ī demo became available on June 10th, 2010 exclusively on the Xbox 360. Its most defining feature is the seamless transition between the two modes of play a single button press and the player character transforms between Robot Mode and Vehicle Mode. War for Cybertron is a third person shooter with vehicular combat elements included. Overall, the entire style of the game is a mixture of various inspirations, with the developers stating that for inspiration they looked at the cartoon, the live-action movies, the comics, and several unrelated science-fiction films such as Tron, Aliens and Blade Runner. Originally intended to stand on its own as a franchise, War for Cybertron's character design is a deliberate homage to the original 80's cartoon, 'The Transformers', though the characterization and storyline are entirely original, such as the idea that the villainous Starscream was originally an Autobot. As the game is set long before any Cybertronian had ever met a Human, characters transform into futuristic, utilitarian vehicle modes instead of replications of Earth vehicles. Transformers: War for Cybertron is set millions of years in the past, during the civil war between the noble Autobots and the vile Decepticons, on the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron.

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