Transformers: War for Cybertron (games)

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The war to begin all wars.

The Transformers: War for Cybertron video games launched the franchise alongside the novel Transformers: Exodus. Published by Activision and developed by High Moon Studios, Next Level Games and Vicarious Visions, the games are rooted in the Aligned continuity family. They depict the events of the Cybertronian war that led to the Dark Energon contamination of the planet and sent the Transformers into deep space.

A sequel, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, was released on August 21, 2012.

Versions

• Xbox 360/PS3/PC

The standard version of the game, and the one most publicized, was made available for two out of three of the main consoles and the PC with few changes between each.

• Nintendo Wii

The Wii version, titled Transformers: Cybertron Adventures, was handled by Next Level Games, and was developed as an on-rails shooter with some driving sections.

• Nintendo DS

The DS version, developed by Vicarious Visions, was released in Autobot and Decepticon incarnations, with numerous exclusive characters in each.

Featured characters

Autobots	Decepticons	Non-Player
Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) Bumblebee (Johnny Yong Bosch) Ratchet (Fred Tatasciore) Ironhide (Keith Szarabajka) Sideswipe (Travis Willingham) Jetfire (Troy Baker) Silverbolt (Patrick Seitz) Arcee (Kari Wahlgren) Air Raid (Liam O'Brien) Warpath (Jamieson Price) Jazz (Scott Whyte) (downloadable content on consoles and unlockable on DS) Scattershot (downloadable content) Cliffjumper (Steve Blum) (DS only) Ultra Magnus (Jamieson Price) (DS only) Grimlock (Crispin Freeman) (DS only) Swoop (Eric Artell) (DS only) Hot Shot (Travis Willingham) (DS only) Zeta Prime (Troy Baker) (DLC)	Megatron (Fred Tatasciore) Starscream (Sam Riegel) Soundwave (Isaac C. Singleton, Jr.) Thundercracker (Graham McTavish) Skywarp (Richard Epcar) Breakdown (Crispin Freeman/Steve Blum) Brawl (Nolan North) Barricade (Steve Blum) Slipstream (Jessica Straus) Shockwave (Steve Blum) (downloadable content on consoles and unlockable on DS) Demolishor (downloadable content) Onslaught (Brad Davidorf) (downloadable content for consoles and unlockable in DS) Cyclonus (Liam O'Brien) (DS only) Motormaster (Fred Tatasciore) (DS only) Dragstrip (Eric Artell) (DS only) Dirge (Steve Blum) (DS only) Ramjet (Brad Davidorf) (DS only) Dead End (DLC)	Autobots Kup (Ed O'Ross) (DS only) Omega Supreme (Fred Tatasciore) Decepticons Trypticon (Fred Tatasciore) Rumble (Keith Silverstein) Frenzy (Keith Silverstein) Laserbeak Other Scouts (Multiplayer class) Soldiers (Multiplayer class) Scientists (Multiplayer class) Leaders (Multiplayer class) Soldiers (unit) Snipers Fliers Cloakers Brutes Heavy Soldiers Destroyers Rocket Soldiers Protectors Shotgunners Machine Gunners Spiders Swarms (DS only) Ground crawlers (DS only)

Gallery

• 
  Surface of Cybertron
• 
  Bumblebee fires his weapon.
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  Ratchet, Bumblebee, and Prime in battle.
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  Omega Supreme attacks a platoon of Decepticons.
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  Starscream and Megatron get ready for the ground assault.
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  More Decepticons!
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  Soundwave sneaks around.
• 
  Oh Primus.
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  Prime will destroy the title. He hears what people want.

Operation Transmission Recovery

As an early marketing campaign, the game's website included the feature "Operation Transmission Recovery": using transmission and coordinate dials, you could pick up "transmissions" from Cybertron (or "video clips/images" to you and me).

There are two dials, blue (outer) and yellow (inner). Using your mouse, you can drag the dial to set coordinates. The blue dial is set by aligning it to marks on the outer circle. When aligned, it becomes a blue ring. After that, the yellow dial is set so that signal strength is full, as indicated by a meter on the right. Once a transmission is unlocked its symbol lights up and the "Total Recovered" amount increases a little bit. When you reach 100%, it tells you how many hours remain until next batch.

As of January 12, 2010, the following transmissions (Batch 9), almost all of which are part of the second trailer (link below), were available:

S. No.	Blue	Yellow	Type	Description
1	351	327	Video	Game Trailer (unlocked by default).
2	018	088	Video	Starscream flying.
3	018	088	Image	Starscream standing.
4	029	209	Video	Battle scene: Camera behind Autobots, Optimus is prominent.
5	040	328	Image	Holographic map of Cybertron and its two moons.
6	051	110	Image	Cybertron.
7	073	190	Image	Optimus vs. an average Decepticon.
8	085	298	Video	Decepticon insignia (on Starscream).
9	096	347	Video	A bomb explosion on Cybertron's surface (possibly the same one which made a huge hole in it).
10	107	035	Image	Megatron crushes cranial unit of a poor Autobot, Starscream is visible behind him, just before the ground assault.
11	120	040	Image	Cybertron as seen from a moon.
12	140	201	Image	Starscream flying towards Cybertron .
13	162	359	Image	A red robot (Ironhide?).
14	173	003	Image	A hall (Council of Autobot Elders?).
15	192	147	Video	Injured Autobot, trying to get up .
16	203	094	Video	Battle scene: Trypticon joins the battle as a burning asteroid (Entry mode) behind Decepticons and Autobots run towards it.
17	214	004	Image	A city seen from a tunnel .
18	225	199	Image	A city tower falling and hitting another tower.
19	265	011	Image	Optimus Prime.
20	284	021	Image	Megatron firing his gun (at YOU).
21	295	249	Video	Optimus uses his axe on a Decepticon.
22	306	041	Image	Cybertron as seen from another moon.
23	317	081	Video	City skyline, camera moving down, some music in the background (start of the second trailer).
24	328	221	Video	Battle scene: A missile hits a battlestation and an Autobot falls down from it.

However, when Activision began releasing more information on the game and the release date was closing in, this teaser feature was removed.

External links

• Official site
• Debut trailer via Gematsu (Wayback Machine link)
• Gameplay trailer via TransformersGame
• Second, fuller trailer from IGN
• Behind the scenes bios and information from Game Informer magazine. (Wayback Machine link)
• Civil War Story Interview at 'Game Trailers TV' (Wayback Machine link)
• Press release (Wayback Machine link)