Pity about there being no PC version. It isn't a dead or dying gaming format, surely?

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As kup and I have previously mentioned, in War For Cybertron Trypticon and Laserbeak's robot modes have been intentionally modified so that they are not as bestial as their G1 counterparts. Trypticon's robot mode is actually a huge hulk robot... but with some very subtle saurian hints to make it recognisable as Trypticon. His body proportions are more humanoid than saurian. Likewise Laserbeak's robot mode is based on his Cybertronian robot in the G1 cartoon which is more like a little jet than a condor.
Subtle? Trypticon is clearly a giant dinosaur... with tail, claws, chomping dino head that even looks like the Gen1 Trypticon.
There's no way it could be mistaken as a robot with "subtle" beast hints.
(this clip at 2.30 shows Trypticon transforming and falling to Cybertron in the game)

Laserbeak on the other hand is small enough to be anything really, as it doesn't show up big enough to get a good look. But since he makes a squawking sound, has moveable wings and has no other "robot" mode, it would be unlikely that the Gen1 homage/inspiration would be anything other than a robotic condor (check out 0.20 on the Laserbeak Trophy Clip).

Trypticon and Laserbeak's robot modes have been intentionally modified so that they are not as bestial as their G1 counterparts.

WFC seemed to have explicitly avoided making characters like Trypticon and Laserbeak look too bestial in robot mode.

Yes but in WFC the "beast themed" modes were previously carefully designed to be primarily robotic and not outright robot animals.

As I said, the game designers have been careful in making other beast-themed forms not look just like robot animals, but rather robots or vehicles with subtle hints of their G1 bestial forms.

...any beast-themed robot mode has been made to look less bestial/Earthen.

And even the beast-themed robot modes in WFC have been designed to make them less bestial and more robotic or vehicular.
I won't dispute anything that has been officially announced somewhere, but I just don't remember that. Where exactly was it mentioned by the game designers that they made "beast" Gen1 characters look less "beasty"?
If they did say that for WFC, then fair enough (and they gave Swoop and Grimlock vehicle modes on the DS version anyway), but if they never specifically said that which you claim, or they were only referring to that first game, anything is possible with other games. They might even have to explain why Grimlock was a Tank for WFC, and is now a Dino in FOC.

Cybertronians seems to have evolved into mostly bipeds like humans, so who's to say that they didn't also have similarly evolved beasts like on Earth. They certainly had spiders and slugs, so why not birds and dinosaurs?