Activision unveils new Transformers game

By Ellie Gibson Published 17 December, 2009

It's set on Cybertron and coming in 2010.

Activision has confirmed a new Transformers videogame is currently in development.

Transformers: War for Cybertron is set on the titular characters' home planet and tells the story of how our heroes came to arrive on Earth. It's being developed by High Moon Studios - previously responsible for The Bourne Conspiracy game.

"For the first time Hasbro is working with Activision to drive the Transformers fiction forward into new story arcs, demonstrating pivotal moments in Transformers history that defined who they are," said Hasbro's Aaron Archer. "This remarkable video game helps us to tell a critical event in Transformers lore that will be used as canon for future storylines in a way we could have only dreamed of a few years ago."

In fact there will be two storylines. The Autobot campaign tells how the heroic robot/caravan types tried to save their planet and the Decepticon plot is about being evil and that. For the first time in a Transformers game you'll be able to enjoy team-based online co-op, plus a variety of head-to-head multiplayer modes.

Expect "a sci-fi art style" and "all-new visualisations of the iconic Transformers characters in their original Cybertronian forms".

Transformers: War for Cybertron is in development for Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Wii and DS. Here's hoping it marks an improvement over the last game, eh?

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Redeye #1 2 years ago

    Godsdammit, if only frickin' Activision weren't publishing this.... >(

    However much it galls me, I might have to bust my 'no Acti titles' rule, depending of course on the substantial quantifier that it isn't shit. If it plays as good as the Melbourne House PS2 title, and not the bloody appalling movie tie-ins, then I might just have to bite.

    Loves me some giant stompy robot action.

  • Tzetrik #2 2 years ago

    Doesnt this completely miss the point of Transformers? The whole selling point is that they are big stompy robots that transform into Earth vehicles..

  • minusblindfold #3 2 years ago

    Why do they have to base it on new styled characters? Why not just mimic the scenes from the 1985 Transformers Movie where they're in space. They're all pottering around in earth vehicles and it doesn't look out of place...

    All they have to do is make a freakin game with the original Characters with 80's hair metal music.
    There. I've just made you millions. Just send me a cheque for 10% in the post.
    Edited by 1 at 17/12/09 @ 09:09

  • bad09 #4 2 years ago

    @ minusblindfold

    Agreed, all I want is a game with the 80's robots (and soundtrack!). It amazes me no one has actually done it TBH.

  • VicViper #5 2 years ago

    @Bad09

    Do you know why they won't do that because it would be awesome. I also partly do not want them to try as even given that the old cartoon movie is still better than the new ones there is no way they could make the game that would do it justice, well ok maybe it Melbourne House were on it and on par with the PS2 offering.

  • sharky_ob #6 2 years ago

    If it's generation 1 transformers I'll be interested. Of course it needs to be a decent game, but that's the big thing for me.

  • minusblindfold #7 2 years ago

    I have the original soundtrack on my ipod. Nothing says finished with work like Instruments of Destruction...
    There is some serious guitar on that album. Even the main theme has a face melting solo.

    Well if you're gonna ride Danno...Ride in style...

  • PrinzPils #8 2 years ago

    Where is that ZOIDS remake ?

  • Postumo #9 2 years ago

    Another shitty game then?

  • Razorus #10 2 years ago

    Forgive my potential lack of Transformers lore, but if this is before they came to Earth, how come everyone's turning into very Earth-like vehicles?

  • sneetch #11 2 years ago

    I don't think they will be transforming into dumper trucks or police cars.

    Expect "a sci-fi art style" and "all-new visualisations of the iconic Transformers characters in their original Cybertronian forms".

    Perhaps they'll transform into space dumper trucks and space police cars.

  • metalangel #12 2 years ago

    "Drive the fiction forward"??? Stop making games, you clearly have no love for making fun things.

  • NonShinyGoose #13 2 years ago

    According to gamesasylum.com all the transforming noises are recordings of actual heavy machinery being used and then played through an amp. Nice!

  • newell123 #14 2 years ago

    you belong to me now..

    just make a unicron game where you get to eat planets n that?

    or sky lynx, or the aerial bots or metroplex or make a co-op game where you can transform into the ones that fit together to make one big one.

    seriously though, like you people have said before, there is so much TF lore to make a game out of...why cant they get it right? G1/2 = the golden years. new sci fi stuff that fans cant relate to = big fail.

    dare to be stupid

  • LudusSolers #15 2 years ago

    @minusblindfold
    +1

    "You got the touch... You got the POWEEERRRRR!!!"

    Happy days.

    Edit: Because I found this...

    http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=Cf_qfX9cKsQ
    Edited by 1 at 17/12/09 @ 21:53