WFC2 - Fall of Cybertron game revealed

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah but even from a practical POV having only melee range fighting ability (and limited range fighting by chucking stuff) is a significant challenge against enemies who have ballistic weapons shooting at you! It'd be cool if Grimlock could deflect shots with his sword (so if you shoot more powerful stuff at him, he could smack it back at you and you'd cop the damage of your own weapon! )

[Bartrim]

Didn't one of the articles say Grimlock has a shield. So I would say you can use that to block and advance on the enemy.

[Hursticon]

Didn't one of the articles say Grimlock has a shield. So I would say you can use that to block and advance on the enemy.

I'm not sure, but I think you see him, from behind, carrying a shield in the Teaser Trailer but even if that isn't the case a shield/buckler would make a great deal of sense IMO.

[UltraMarginal]

Grimlock is the Hasbro answer to the Avengers, Hulk Strength, Captain America's shield, and a big Freaking sword instead of Thors Hammer.

though his sword looks really heavy in the clip...

[kup]

But (and even though it has it's flaws and you have openly criticised this) Hasbro has stated the WFC and FOC games are technically in the Transformers: Prime continuity, so it is not as G1 as IDW or classics.

Given that in reality the first game had nothing to do with TF Prime despite Hasbro saying so, I would prefer to come to that conclusion myself after trying out the game than just going by what is 'officially' said.

[Bartrim]

Given that in reality the first game had nothing to do with TF Prime despite Hasbro saying so, I would prefer to come to that conclusion myself after trying out the game than just going by what is 'officially' said.

Dark Energon disagrees with you

[kup]

Dark Energon disagrees with you

But everything else in the game does agree with me. Even so dark energon seems somewhat different in wfc than in Prime.

If you like to go by what is officially said then that is fine. I prefer to go by my own observations so lets agree to disagree.

[Sleeve]

Come oooooooon, Sludge!

[griffin]

sigh... that was SO bound to pop up.


As for what kup was saying - WFC fits better into Gen1 continuity/feel than Prime or Movieverse... right down to the designs of the characters.
I was looking over TF-Prime Starscream's page on tfwiki, and saw how different WFC Starscream is in appearance and character to Prime Starscream (as with the other characters)... WFC may well have been shoehorned into Prime and/or Movieverse by Hasbro, but it was clearly initially designed/proposed by Activision to be a homage to Gen1/War Within before Hasbro created TF-Prime, and thought, 'hey here's an idea'....

[kup]

sigh... that was SO bound to pop up.


As for what kup was saying - WFC fits better into Gen1 continuity/feel than Prime or Movieverse... right down to the designs of the characters.
I was looking over TF-Prime Starscream's page on tfwiki, and saw how different WFC Starscream is in appearance and character to Prime Starscream (as with the other characters)... WFC may well have been shoehorned into Prime and/or Movieverse by Hasbro, but it was clearly initially designed/proposed by Activision to be a homage to Gen1/War Within before Hasbro created TF-Prime, and thought, 'hey here's an idea'....

That's right and it is very obvious when you have played the game and watched TF Prime.

Naturally we can only speak about WFC as how this new game will be handled is yet to be seen. However so far what little has been revealed is looking to be just like WFC when it comes to the 'G1 feel' despite several concept changes. The only current identifiable TF Prime influence is Cliffjumper's head.