Earlier we brought you the news of Transformers: Earth Wars with special courtesy from good folks at Space Ape Games, Hasbro and Backflip Studios. You’ll be curious to know how this partnership came to be. It just so happens that Games Industry; an online magazine dedicated to the business aspect of video games, has come up with a lengthy article highlighting the new licence agreement and the future of the Transformers Video Games. They’ve also published images of couple of upcoming characters and both of them being Fembots.
“I think the movie game tie-ins that categorised the later generation of console development don’t really work for mobile,” says [Simon Hade; co-founder of Space Ape Games]. “You can’t have thoe external dependencies driving the game so rigidly. You get some examples of studios that can build a franchise and turn out sequels regularly, but for the most part a good studio wants to ship a game when it’s ready. So you want to pick an IP and a strategy that work together, where you can take advantage of the fact that your game is going to be recognised and downloaded by a lot of people because it’s a Transformers game, but you also want to add to the brand, bring something new to it. At the same time you don’t to have to tie yourself to a movie release or an E3 announcement. I don’t think that model will be what defines IP games on mobile in the way that it did on console.
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Lord Dcast
'Open world'
Nope
EDIT: Also no expansive dialogue, no deep themes and too short. The game's good, don't get me wrong, but we can go better.
Autobot Burnout
Just replace "Cybertron" with "Ancient Cybertronian ship" and it's pretty much all you could want…as long as you don't want to play Decepticons.
GR1ML0CK
I would love a gijoe vs transformers based off of titanfall. That would be nice
Lord Dcast
We all want a sequel that's not Rise of the Dark Spark, but what we REALLY need is an amazing Transformers game. We've had good ones, bad ones, meh ones and forgettable ones.
We need one that's worthy of awards. I'm talking HUGE open worlds with expansive dialogue, deep themes and moral fluidity.
Give the player a chance to explore Cybertron. SOMEONE?!
GR1ML0CK
What i need a WFC/FOC game. It should be called Fall of Earth
Lord Dcast
Uh, isn't this game already out in some places? Already that makes EW worse.
Collectibot
That was what I meant.
Lord Dcast
Universe as in the MMORPG?! That actually looked good, but never saw the light of day.
This is worse. It's been forced out with minimal effort. At least Universe had the decency to apologise and offer refunds.
Collectibot
I bet this will be a failure like Universe.
Lord Dcast
Oh Earth Wars. The more people discuss you, the worse you begin to sound. Soon you will join the ranks of other failed mobile games that never saw the light of day, simply because others did it first. Sure, they were no better, but in the end how many good games are actually on the app store in comparison to the bad?
This is why I stick to the eshop.
Collectibot
Character Art
Here is Bludgeon's character art.
starscream 55
That's just what we need, another Fucking RTS game. Why have they become so popular all of a sudden?
BadEugoogolizer
Hook is on there for sure. He's my medic that charges across the battlefield . I've seen Shockwave on other people's screenshots, but who knows how legit that is. A guy in my alliance says he has Shrapnel and Kickback, but I haven't seen replays or anything.
unicronic
The big issue with this game is a tiny roster of characters.
Decepticons only have (as far as I can tell)
Megatron
Starscream (seeker design is uniform)
Skywarp (seeker design is uniform)
Thundercracker (seeker design is uniform)
Soundwave (with minions)
Bludgeon
Kickback
Breakdown
Shockwave appears in conversations but I'm yet to see him a character and there seems to be Shrapnel in the loading screen.
JJohnson
My only question is when will this game be available for Windows 10 as a universal app, so I can play on my phone, tablet, and desktop computer? There are over 200 million people they could reach with this game, and I'm on e who's interested, but only if it's on Windows.
nobleboivin
looks fun.
bumblebeej8
The only difference is that it looks ridiculous on the toy, thankfully there are mods for the toy.
Scaleface
They took Combiner Wars Mirage and transformed him with his body backwards, just like you can do on the toy!
Newholl
What idiot designed these?! Why reference MP/Combiner wars designs if you're going to piss on them?!
Really, something is horribly wrong when TOYS looks far better than CGI models.