WFC2 - Fall of Cybertron game revealed

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Oh no, the Geth are invading Cybertron!

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Courtesy of Gameinformer.com, we've been provided with yet another facet of the upcoming game; Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.

In this latest article; Resurrecting The Dinobots, containing many new pics and vids, Matt Tieger and the Art Team of High Moon Studios detail how they came up with a new origin story for having Dinosaurs on Cybertron without having been to Earth as well as their approach to the new look for our favourite Saurian team.

*Pics Mirrored courtesy of Gameinformer.com:

[gdmetro]

Yes!

And rumor has it all 5 will be released... in figure form. Grimlock as voyager, the rest in deluxe.

Whilst they wouldn't be as nice as all 5 MP dinobots, they will fill in as the dinobots for my classics shelf due to completeness.

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Yes!

And rumor has it all 5 will be released... in figure form. Grimlock as voyager, the rest in deluxe.

Whilst they wouldn't be as nice as all 5 MP dinobots, they will fill in as the dinobots for my classics shelf due to completeness.

I agree; 5 MP Dinobots would be great but unless TakTom can Retool/Repaint them out of MP Grimlock it'll be unlikely to happen.

I really, really hope that there is some truth to that rumour but with only one tiny modification; I'd kinda prefer Sludge to be a Voyager too, purely for logical reasons as I'm perfectly happy with Slug/Slag, Swoop and Snarl being Deluxes but I think there might be - just might be some truth to this rumour for a couple of reasons.

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Did anyone else notice Snarl in this image at that gameinformer link?
Just need visual proof of Sludge now... (sorry sleeve )

It's interesting to hear that they are still conceiving their WFC game ideas from Gen1, right down to their visual appearances (which we've seen are completely different to Prime & Movie aesthetics). It's like the gamers are long time fans and are doing this game for fellow Gen1 fans, but then the story these characters are in ends up being shoe-horned into what Hasbro currently wants as it's story universe to be. The game designers even had to work hard at convincing Hasbro to allow them to use the Dinobots because they don't fit within their "grand plan".
(it also sounds like they might actually call the five dinobots by their original Gen1 names, instead of the Hasbro "politically correct on every continent" names - but is still too early to tell, especially if toys are likely... it has been a while since Hasbro managed to give all 5 classic names out to the right dinosaur forms)

The concept of Grimlock transforming when he gets too mad reminds me of an old Hulk game, which you had to keep his rage down in stages he had to infiltrate (avoiding electric traps & troops). I can't remember if you also had to keep him raged when needing to use the Hulk... but I'm thinking that may be the case in this game when using Grimlock. If you need to use him in robot mode, he can't be allowed to overheat (physically, like with an onscreen rage/heat meter)... but then when you need to take on a difficult situation or opponent, you gotta get him worked up to make him change.
Ah, just got to the 13minute mark on the video, and they ended up saying something similar... he has a rage meter (like the special ability feature in Campaign & Escalation), but you still choose to activate it, it isn't automatic.

I wonder who the blue robot is that's on the far left of the wall in the first video. If they've redesigned the main characters like they did with Optimus, the colours look like Thundercracker, but looks a lot more impressive than the regular seeker design.
A closer look at it, I don't think it is Thundercracker... so looks like an interesting character.

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Well bloody spotted Griffin!
I honestly didn't even notice Snarl up there, I thought he was just part of the architecture.

I don't see them shoe-horning so much as drawing quite a bit of G1 references and overlaying them on top of the Narrative Skeleton that Hasbro has been trying to construct over the past couple of years, a sort of 'soft-link' kind of approach rather than the disjointed mess it has been in for quite some time.

Indeed Hasbro didn't actually have the Dinobots factored in with their Narrative Skeleton, I'm sticking with that designation by the way , but what High Moon Studios and Hasbro have come up with story-wise in order to include them in the mix; I think is absolutely brilliant on a number of very deep and multifaceted levels.
With that being said, I hope Hasbro decide to integrate this origin into said Narrative Skeleton as I think it is a vastly superior piece of story telling; it beats the old 'Angsty Gladiator Tanks' or the 'Dim-witted products of a Ratchet/Wheeljack foray into designer Protoforms'.

I'm SO pumped for this game, it sounds and looks like it is going to be excellent fun to play but also an awesome TF story too; I really hope this is even more successful than it's predecessor, which it's already looking like it'll achieve , so we get more nigh-perfect Transformers games from this superb developer (High Moon Studios) but also some additional media in the forms of comics, novels and... oh! - toys!

[Paulbot]

I did notice Snarl, but think that if this game keeps to the "three characters per level" that the first game had then it will be Grimlock, Slag and Swoop who are playable since there are more pics of them. (Which just happens to be the same three Dinobots from Animated).

I picked up the GameInformer mag from Coles and the pics do look really nice.

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@Paulbot: I seem to remember Matt Tieger saying in one of the interviews, not sure which one , that they were moving away from a 'choose one of three per level' system and going with a 'one per level' approach predominantly on a story delivery basis i.e. having each level focus on the character your playing as, rather than having a choice of character for a level; being a better way of delivering and participating in the story.
(Does that make sense? )

[Tallestblue]

Those Dinbots are Epic. And are these just rumours of toys or are there actually going to be toys? 'Cos my hopes are sky-high atm.

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And are these just rumours of toys or are there actually going to be toys? 'Cos my hopes are sky-high atm.

At present, they are just rumours ; although there are some indications from a variety of sources that give the rumours a little bit of substance - Only time will tell though.
(I mean, really there hasn't been a more perfect time/opportunity to bring these beloved saurians back from the tar pits )