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REVIEW

TRANSFORMERS: WAR
FOR CYBERTRON REVIEW

By Neil Hetherington

cartoon, through its multiple

Developer: High Moon Studios
across various platforms,
Publisher: Activision
the fairly well-liked PS2
Platform(s): PC, PS3, X360
title was the previous cream Release Date(s): 22 June, 2010 (NA)
of the crop while the the
25 June, 2010 (EU)

generations, the animated movie,

obligatory film-to-game tie-

up to the more recent Michael

in games based on Michael Bay’s

war between the Autobots and

Bay adaptation. The Transformers

vision are considered better left

the Decepticons on Cybertron.

would have no doubt touched

forgotten by some. However War

you during your life in some form

for Cybertron has been able to do

The start of Transformers: War

and shown its power to you.

something no other development

for Cybertron lies within the

team has been able to do with

Decepticon camp, allowing players

The franchise has most definitely

the Transformers license yet:

to take the role of Megatron in

become a love affair to millions

to go back to the Transformers

his quest for Dark Energon and

upon the planet. Now when it

roots and really sink their teeth

the eventual extinction of the

comes to games, Transformers

into the events that led to the

Autobot race from Cybertron.

Now we all remember the
Transformers in one form
or another, from its humble
beginnings as a Saturday morning

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