Jagex, the creators of the upcoming Transformers Universe MMO sent us an update today. They wanted to recap and share the information and images about the project revealed at Botcon 2011.
Check out their details below. There are also some awesome images of Prowl, Barricade, the Decepticon Fighter and a couple background shots as well, which you can see by reading the full story.
[INDENT]For those who missed the news, here what was announced about the game at BotCon:
- Hasbro and Jagex have joined forces to develop and publish a TRANSFORMERS MMO.
- The title of the MMO will be TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE.
- TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE will be an action orientated MMO.
- In TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE players will be able to create and play as their own AUTOBOT or DECEPTICON, designing and customising the character to fit their game play style, combat preferences and appearance.
- After looking at the mechanics, the iconic TRANSFORMERS IP, and the TRANSFORMERS heritage Jagex distilled this into core themes which are present throughout the TRANSFORMERS universe: conflict, teamwork, and social regard (the AUTOBOTS caring for the humans)
- TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE sits within the “Prime” timeline, along with the book Exodus, the War for Cybertron games and the Prime cartoon.
- The game will be released in 2012.
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Make sure to visit http://www.transformersuniverse.com to keep up with the progress of the game!
Taziir
You'll be surprised what can be done in-browser these days:
OnLive
Superquad7
Yes, please.
electronic456
Prowl and Barricade
A high chance that both these characters will appear in the Transformers Prime show.
Alienbot
Yeah, it's Jagex, and it's the only Transformers MMO, they want kids to play this without having to buy expensive expansions.
Latias Prime
Holy shit, you get to make your own character? Like choose a gender, customize apperance and ablilities and pick any alt-mode?
Suddenly I am not so interested in Pokemon Black anymore.
In all seriousness, this is awesome news. I have always wondered what a Transformers MMO would be like, and now it looks like my dream is coming true. I can't wait to see if I can make some of my fan-characters in the game. The only thing is we have to wait until 2012, so we only get a year or so of play before the end of the world (then again, the Mayans could have been wrong).
Oh, and I guess the Prowl and Barricade models are cool too.
Deceptijohn
I think you need to lower your expectations. This mmo will be run in your web browser. It will not be anywhere near as impressive as WoW in the graphics or the gameplay. I'm not saying it won't be awesome and fun, because no one has any idea yet, but it's probably for the best if you imagine it being more like Runescape than WoW. Better to be pleasantly surprised than disappointed right?
StarYoshi14
I'll be quitting WoW of this is good enough.
Omegatron
I'd like to see toys of that Prowl and Barricade, but I'm also looking forward to the game.
Radioactive Ravage
I want me some Barricade in toy form.
But more importantly, I want to make my own Transformer.
Paxtin
I'd be willing to bet that was actually a prerendered animation. I wouldn't be surprised if the actual game graphics are a tad lower rez.
shroobmaster
Alot of people do. High Moon Studio is small talk.
Opticron Primal
The video of the character model animations looked pretty damn good for a game like this, to be honest. So I'm cautiously optimistic.
Also, I hope to god we see that Barricade design turned into a toy. I'd love to use it as a classics Barricade.
Sockie
The game's internet-browser based. I don't think it would be THAT hard for any computer to play.
Ribieconvoy
Could be really awesome. Could suck. 99% sure I won't be able to play it though since my comps prolly couldnt even have played WFC.
MichaelGaxiola
Toys of them PLEASE HASBRO!
Necro Prime
This game is going to inhale my life.
RW8U
I just wish it wasn't called Universe.
Ravenxl7
Definitely seems like it's going to be a very interesting game. Not sure if I'll get it, but I'll wait to see how the gameplay looks. Though if I do get it, I might have to get a new computer, lol (the one I've got now can barely play Lego HP as it is).
Transformed
I just realized that this game has a teaser attached to it. The concept art looks out of this world, but sadly the teaser was nothing but weak No one does a teaser better than HMS.
MicromanSpyBoy
These are gonna be great!
…for kitbashing!