Continuing with their month long exclusive coverage of Transformers Fall Of Cybertron, Gameinformer.com has posted an interview with director Matt Tieger. In the interview Matt discuss what it’s like to play an important role in the Transformers Franchise and why he prefers to not think of War For Cybertron as a sequel, but as a “spirtitual successor”.
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General Magnus
He addressed that. He said "We know that Grimlock was a tank"
And hey space T-Rex sounds cool.
Geterman
Mr. Tieger lost credibility with me with his space T-Rex comment. I hope they have a good story in the game for the "space T-Rex".
No Tieger! If you are a real transformers fan you would know that Grimlock was a tank on Cybertron in most continuity.
Flymegatron21
Megatron's new look
he looks badass.
PA_Kid
The one thing concerning(?) me is that with this spiritual successor talk and the wording of the press release it almost sounds like we're getting the same time period/story all over again just seen from a different perspective.
It almost sounds like they are going to tell different stories around the original WfC story, but still stick to Cybertron up to the launch of the Ark.
Won't stop me from buying it day 1, but that does seem to be a bit of a shame – would have loved to seen things shaken up and soem different characters. I guess at the end of the day though, it's gotta have OP and Megs as the primary focus from a character recognition standpoint and that does limit where and when you can set the story.
I would love to see stuff set on Earth or like the Exiles book where we see they've chosen to tweak the history and have the Ark travel different places before it's eventual arrival.
Bahamut Prime
Cool! Love to see the gameplay in Grimmy this time!
General Magnus
Nope.
sh4d0w dweller
im kinda pissed cuz i love grimlock but they said these games are supposed to be showing wat happened BEFORE they came to earth but grimlock wasnt created until after they landed on earth
Shizuka
Ratchet, is that you? That dude looks like Red Alert (Armada) to me. But apparently that's Perceptor?
General Magnus
He´s right about one thing WfC was horribly repetitive. :/
Now if they just get rid of that stupid "hover mode"….
bellpeppers
It aint connected to PRIME… that's just the smoke HASBRO likes to blow up our arses.
TheSCATTORSHOT
Where the fuck is the PC Version
StarryAqua
If FOC is supposed to immediately follow WFC, and the series is supposed to relate to Transformers Prime, then the story might actually be the story of Exiles, or at least have some connections to it. Perhaps the radical changes in story structure and gameplay they are talking about refers to connecting it to Prime.
RedAlert Rescue
I still think that Grimlock is rather rubbish looking – as it's to like Energon Grimlock the shape of the head is completely wrong it's neither like an actual T-Rex or like Grimlock – heck it's not even like Godzilla so it fails in all ways heck other than looking like Energon Megatron if anything it's more like Snapdragon than Grimlock. It's also fat looking.
So far the character designs are substantially less good than the 1st game and nearly as averageware as Warwithin in terms of uninspired cybertronian modes.
Besides what's the point of changing some of them – just focus on the chracters who didn't get made last time as CGI and use them instead.
Someone like Springer for example.
Angelwave
Freakin Perceptor. I can't stand this wait. I have to play this game.
I do understand where he is coming from with the abilities. For the most part, I noticed that the abilities for me were something that I wouldn't use as much in the campaign as I would in the Multiplayer. And even then, I personally only stuck to what would work for me for my MP Characters. So bring them down to only one isn't so bad as long as it is fun to use.
vladimir-pocket
*head explodes from awesome* i… love.. perceptor.. i need this game now!
UltraAlanMagnus
If they do a War for Cybertron 3, They should get Sefton Hill to be as Co Director.
Transformed
I saw that too, and kept wonder if it was Perceptor, the colors look wrong, but the design looks like right. Could it be Red Alert?
bellpeppers
Was that Lazerbeak? Or Swoop?
Sideswipe80
I want a good shot of Perceptor.
StarYoshi14
Meh, I'd like to see how it works. It could be really interesting, and it would definitely reduce ability spamming leaders.
Seriously, leader uses Warcry and Moleculon Bomb and you are dead unless you either counter it by being a leader and using the same abilities, try to possibly down him as a Soldier with the EMP shotgun, or run away as the Scout or Scientist.
Still, I am gunna miss my epic ninja scout. It really felt like you were a ninja with cloaking and the evasiveness of boosting.