===[[Transformers War for Cybertron (360/PS3/PC)|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.
[[Image:WarforCybertron-OptimusPrime.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Prime auditions for Unreal Tournament. There were no survivors.]]
===[[Transformers Cybertron Adventure|Wii]]===
The Wii version was handled by a different studio, and was developed as an on-rails shooter.
It is the waning days of the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] before the Transformers come to Earth. [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]], genuinely believing a caste system will bring Cybertron back to its [[Golden Age]], is researching a dangerous power source known as [[Dark Energon]] to fuel his conquest of the planet. Megatron discovers that the factory that produces Dark Energon is guarded by a neutral army led by [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], and he leads an attack on the station. After his ship crashes into the hull of the station, Megatron, [[Brawl (G1)|Brawl]] and [[Barricade (G1)|Barricade]] defeat Starscream's army and harness the power of the Dark Energon. Cornered, Starscream tells Megatron that he's the only one who knows how to make more of the energon and that he will help the Decepticon leader if Megatron takes him into his army. Megatron reluctantly agrees to this and sends Starscream, [[Thundercracker (G1)|Thundercracker]], and [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] to reactivate the [[Energon Bridge]] that will produce new Dark Energon. They succeed, and Megatron decides to use his new-found power to attack and destroy the Autobot city of [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]]. While Starscream and Brawl lead the main attack on the city, Megatron takes [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] and Breakdown on a flanking attack to recover the Omega Key, which will allow him to access the core of the planet. Arriving at the key's holding place, the Decepticons learn that the Autobot leader [[Zeta Prime]] has taken it to keep it safe. The team regroup with Brawl and Starscream, and use Dark Energon bombers to eliminate the remaining Autobots before storming the building in which Zeta Prime is waiting. Megatron defeats the Autobot leader, stealing the Omega Key and punching a hole in his chest. Zeta reveals that the key Megatron has just stolen only activates the ''real'' Omega Key, and that soon '''it''' will find '''him'''. Suddenly [[Omega Supreme (G1)|a huge ship awakens and takes off.]]
===[[Transformers War for Cybertron (DS)|Nintendo DS]]===
The DS version was released in an Autobot and Decepticon version, with numerous exclusive characters in each.
An unknown amount of time later, Megatron is commanding his ship in search of the "Omega Key". The ship is suddenly attacked by Omega Supreme, who shoots them out of the sky, causing them to crash-land in Iacon. Megatron, Soundwave and Breakdown began a desperate retreat from Omega Supreme's attack and take cover in a large tower. Once inside, the group hear Starscream announce that Megatron is dead and that he is taking command of the Decepticons. Enraged but unable to make any outside contact, Megatron leads his forces through the city, dodging attacks from Omega Supreme while searching for a way to fight him. Soundwave discovers that they can use some of the Autobot's anti-air and anti-infantry turrets on a tower roof against the massive Autobot. Along the way, the group makes contact with Starscream and corrects his mistake, using him to distract Omega Supreme. Once they reached the turrets, the group manages to shoot down Omega Supreme, causing him to crash to the ground below. The Decepticons go down to recover his body, but Omega Supreme transforms into robot mode, firing missiles and lasers. Megatron manages to corrupt Omega with Dark Energon, using him to reach and corrupt the core of Cybertron with Dark Energon.
==Featured Characters==
Meanwhile, recovering from the attack on Iacon, the young Autobot messenger [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] is sent to tell the soldier [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus]] that Zeta Prime is dead. Optimus decides to take temporary control of the Autobots, taking Bumblebee and his friend [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] on a counterattack to push out Decepticon forces. They manage to reactivate the planetary guns, clearing the skies over Iacon, and proceed to aid [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] in reclaiming the Decagon, just barely missing Soundwave on the way. Entering the Decagon, Optimus receives a message from Zeta Prime, revealing that he is not yet dead but is being held in a prison in [[Kaon]]. Optimus, Bumblebee and [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] allow themselves to be captured by the Decepticons and enter the prison. The three are just barely saved from a firing squad by [[Air Raid (G1)|Air Raid]], but as they escape into the tunnels below, Air Raid is captured. The three Autobots sneak through the prison, rescuing Air Raid and releasing all the Autobot prisoners (including [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]]). Using the chaos as a distraction, the trio sneak to the high security bunker Zeta Prime is being held. When the Autobots try to save them, Soundwave attacks, sending out [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]], [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], and [[Laserbeak (G1)|Laserbeak]]. The Autobots defeat them, but Soundwave manages to retreat. When Optimus tries to rescue Zeta, the Prime tells him that he is already dead and collapses. Optimus returns the body to the council, who tell Optimus that he must accept that he is a Prime and take up his role as leader. Thus, he becomes Optimus Prime. However, he is then dispatched into the very core of Cybertron with [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and [[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] to cure the currently infected core. Heading to the entrance, where Omega Supreme is being held by the Decepticons, the three Autobots manage to free Omega, then call in Ratchet to repair him enough to open the Omega Gate. Thanks to the help of some space slugs, Prime, Warpath, and Ironhide defeat a corrupted space slug and reach the core. However the core tells Optimus that, in order to repair itself, it will have to shut down for millions of years, forcing Optimus and the Autobots to evacuate Cybertron. Before the core shuts down, it gives Optimus the [[Matrix of Leadership]].
Returning to Iacon, Optimus Prime orders the launching of a full-scale evacuation of Cybertron's surface, however as the transports leave the atmosphere, Megatron begins shooting them down with his massive orbital space station. Optimus relizes the need to shut down the station, and sends [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], Air Raid, and [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] to shut it down from the inside out. The team went flying into the station and blow up the power core, but Megatron taunts them as he activates a back-up generator. Then the station itself begins to mock them. Relizing the station is a Cybertronian, the team flies to find its conversion cog to force it into its robot mode before it can finish leveling Iacon, and Optimus with it. Succeding, the Autobots race out of the quickly transforming space station, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. The Autobots shoot out the massive Decepticon's jetpack, causing it to hurtle towards the surface of the planet. Trypticon still functioned however, and Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Ironhide were forced to engage the damaged Decepticon. After a difficult battle, Optimus uses his axe to knock Trypticon off-balance, sending it plummiting into the liquid below. As the other transports escape the planet's dying surface Optimus shows his team their new ship - an [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] that will allow them to take a piece of Cybertron with them, [[Earth|wherever their adventures may take them...]]
==Characters==
At the start of each level, the player can choose from one of three characters. Characters belong to one of four distinct classes:
* '''Leaders:''' Vehicle forms are trucks. Support their team with buffs and debuff the enemy team.
* '''Soldiers:''' Vehicle forms are tanks. Have heavy-hitting ranged and melee weaponry.
* '''Scientists:''' Vehicle forms are jets. Use a variety of tricky technology and precise long-distance weaponry to heal their allies and control the battlefield from a distance.
* '''Scouts:''' Vehicle forms are cars. Specialize in evasion and high-speed combat, along with disabling functions like EMP grenades.
The characters available will shift from level to level.
Known playable characters include:
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The Decepticon campaign includes a boss battle with [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and the Autobot campaign includes defending [[Iacon (city-state)|Iacon]]. [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] appears in the IGN trailer, but he's, uh, probably not playable. Players should expect references to Cybertron locations taken from all previous Transformer stories, "things which may have only been referenced once, in one comic way back when, could be used and expanded upon."<ref name="tfw2005"/>
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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==Features==
* Campaigns will be co-op online for the first time in a Transformers game.
* All playable characters have two special abilities, such as absorbing health from enemies or marking targets.
* The game will run on the Unreal engine.
* High Moon is prepared to "support the game after release," meaning either patches or downloadable content.
* Online Multiplayer is being developed for the game.
* All environments, including cover, can be destroyed.
* Characters transform at any time with an easy and quick tap of the Left Analog stick. There is no "cool down" so players can transform as often and as freely as they wish.
* The ability to create your own Transformers character for multiplayer. <ref>[http://www.3news.co.nz/Transformers-War-for-Cybertron-trailer/tabid/418/articleID/144347/Default.aspx War For Cybertron trailer news at 3news.co.nz]</ref>
==Production==
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" to you and me).
The art and design team did intense research (i.e. watched the original cartoon, looked at comics, and watched "typical sci-fi cool stuff" like ''Blade Runner'') to work out the aesthetic of Cybertron; lead artist [[Ivan Power]] remarked that the original cartoon was the main inspiration, and that Cybertron wasn't shown there so they had to rewatch the same few clips "over and over". While many of the city designs are elaborate and shiny, Decepticon [[Kaon]] was deliberately designed to be sharp-edged, rusting, and slapped together to show the Decepticons weren't interested in building a functioning society. <ref>[http://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2009/12/21/transformers-art-video.aspx Game Informer: Behind the Art of War for Cybertron]</ref>
==Transformer references==
==Transformer references==
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==Trophy list==
When completing the campaign in certain condition, the play will be rewarded with the trophy.
;Platinum
*Vector Sigma Victory - Unlock All Trophies
;Gold
* Heavy Metal War - Complete the 15th wave in Escalation Mode
;Silver
* Autobot Commander - Complete Autobot Campaign in Medium level
* Autobot Prime - Complete Autobot Campaign in Hard level
* Decepticon Seeker - Complete Decepticon Campaign in Normal level
* Decepticon Warlord - Complete Decepticon Campaign in Hard level
* Till All Are One - Complete both Campaigns in any difficulty
* The Kups' Half Full - Reach a combined class level of 50 Multiplayer
* Only the Strong Survive - Reach a combined class level of 75 in Multiplayer
* Top of the Scrap Heap - Reach a combined class level of 100 in Multiplayer
* Prime Detective - Unlock Prime Mode
* Scavenger Would Be Proud! - Destroy all hidden Autobot symbols in the Decepticon Campaign
* Grimlock, Smash! - Destroy all hidden Decepticon symbols in the Autobot Campaign
* Wait! I Still Function! - Get 3 kills while downed in a Co-op Campaign or Escalation Mode
;Bronze
* A Prime Problem - Complete Defend Iacon on any Difficulty
* The Last Prime - Complete Kaon Prison Break on any difficulty
* You Got The Touch - Complete To The Core on any difficulty
* The War Within - Complete Aerial Assault on any difficulty
* The Harder They Fall - Complete One Shall Stand on any difficulty
* Brute-A-Kiss - Ignite a Brute's back 5 times in Campaign or Escalation
* Footloose and Fancy Free - Destroy a Jet Soldier's foot thruster 5 times in Campaign or Escalation
* That's No Mirage - Headshot a Cloaker when it is invisible in Campaign or Escalation
* Targetmaster! - Kill 2 snipers in 5 seconds in Campaign
* There are Parts Everywhere - Multi-kill 3 car soldiers at once using an explosive weapon in Campaign or
Escalation
* Blast-Arachnia! - Destroy 100 spiders in Campaign or Escalation
* Fire in the Sky - Melee-kill a Jet Vehicle in the air in Campaign or Escalation
* Friends to the End - Finish any level in Co-op
* Unlikely Allies - Finish any level in Competitive Co-op
* More than Meets the Eye - Earn a 1st Place MVP award in any Multiplayer mode
* You Got Spark, Kid - Reach level 5 in any single class in Multiplayer
* Spikes BFF - Reach level 25 in any single class in Multiplayer
* Powermaster! - Spend 25,000 Power in Escalation Mode
* Action Master - Get 10 kills using detached turrets in any mode
* Ramhorn - Ram-kill against an enemy who is stunned by an EMP grenade in Campaign or Multiplayer
==Demo==
On June 10, 2010, a demo for the game was released on Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo is a multiplayer only demo, and only two of the four announced classes, Soldier and Scout, are playable in the demo. Only one "Create a Character" slot is open for each class, but customization for chassis is not available yet. Players can only level up to Level 3 in each class. The only map available is "Molten", and the two gametypes available are Team Deathmatch and Conquest.
==Toy tie-ins==
==Toy tie-ins==
Revision as of 15:36, 26 June 2010
"Hey.. What is Starscream doing there? Where's Megatron?"
Transformers: War for Cybertron is a video game developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision, set before the Transformers take their war to Earth. Hasbro intends it to act as a foundation for Transformers franchise storylines for years to come, and so they've been giving a lot of input and stressing character development.[1] The book Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron serves as a storyline lead-in to the events of the game, which itself in turn sets the stage for the upcoming cartoon series Transformers: Prime.[citation needed]
Unlike previous Transformers video games which feature distinctly separate campaigns for the Autobots and the Decepticons (traditionally depicting the playable faction utterly defeating the other), War for Cybertron will feature a single, linear storyline; the Decepticon campaign occurs chronologically before the Autobot campaign, but fans can play through them in whichever order they prefer.[2]
The game itself will be an over-the-shoulder third-person shooter in which the player can choose his character from a small roster of either Autobots or Decepticons. The game has a street date of June 22, 2010, for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii (as Transformers: Cybertron Adventures), Nintendo DS, and PC; however, the console versions were released at Sears stores on June 17th.
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.
Ironhide greets the space slug with the Universal greeting. Warpath had no idea what it was.
In the Kaon prison an Autobot is pronounced guilty and pushed off a gantry into a pit. He responds with "Spare me this mockery of justice!", the same quote from when the Quintessons sentenced Kranix the Lithone to Sharkticons.
Rumble repeats another line from the movie: ""First we crack the shell, then we crack the nuts inside!"
When Starscream declares himself as Decepticon leader, Megatron retorts that "[he] still function[s]."
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.
It is no longer on the website.
Toy tie-ins
Hasbro has confirmed that several toys will be made to tie into the promotion of the video game. These include figures of Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Megatron and Soundwave. At Toy Fair 2010, they were confirmed to be part of the Generations toyline.
IDW Publishing is bringing out a comic based on the game. News of this first got leaked when Australian website JB Hi-Fi offered a free copy of issue 1 if you pre-ordered the game from them. [7] Later, it was available for those that purchased either the PS3 or Xbox versions of the game at Sears or Kmart in America. The story is a partial adaptation of the Exodus book. [8]
Bumblebee fires his weapon.
Ratchet, Bumblebee, and Prime in battle.
Omega Supreme attacks a platoon of Decepticons.
Starscream and Megatron get ready for the ground assault.
More Decepticons!
Soundwave sneaks around.
Resistance really does seem to be futile.
ARRHHH!
Many say the title should not be like this.
