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Activision have uploaded their official website for Transformers: Animated The Game. The site has a new video featuring some gameplay and cartoon scenes with audio.
Official Site: www.transformersanimatedgame.com
Transformers: Animated The Game is due out on 21st October in North America and 24th October in the UK on the Nintendo DS.
At Auto Assembly 2008 yesterday, the first video footage of Activision’s new game, Transformers: Animated The Game, was shown to fans, with gameplay footage of both driving and platforming. Of course, there was plenty of transforming, with all Autobots shown in action.
Transformers: Animated The Game is out in October 2008 on the Nintendo DS.
Glu have released a video for their Transformers game for mobile phones, titled Transformers G1: Awakening. Unfortunately, there is no audio in the video, but the trailer gives you a good idea of the gameplay, which resembles the Advanced Wars series.
The game is due for release in September 2008 worldwide.
Now if only someone could port it to the PSP and DS.
We just received an email from Activision about Transformers Animated on Nintendo DS. They’ve sent us a fact sheet and some screen shots. This looks pretty cool.
Based on Cartoon Network’s animated television series of the same name, TRANSFORMERS Animated, available exclusively on the Nintendo DS™, under license from Hasbro, delivers an exciting action-adventure experience. As they blast through DECEPTICON-controlled hoverbots, players attempt to solve challenging teamwork-based puzzles and race through the motorways of a futuristic Detroit, dodging on-coming traffic while seamlessly changing between robot and vehicle-form. Fans take control of all their favorite AUTOBOT characters, including OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, BULKHEAD and PROWL, as they work together to reclaim the lost fragments of the Allspark before the DECEPTICONS intercept it and claim Cybertron as their own.
KEY FEATURES:
- Adventure beyond the animated series – Gamers experience TRANSFORMERS Animated in a whole new way in this action-adventure game based on the animated series and featuring several of the characters and environments fans enjoy.
- Play as your favorite AUTOBOT characters – Players instantly switch between AUTOBOT team members using their special skills and unique individualized weapons to overcome enemies and challenges. They can take down a boss with OPTIMUS PRIME, outrace foes with BUMBLEBEE, break down barriers with BULKHEAD or outmaneuver enemies with PROWL.
- It’s all about teamwork – Faced with a number of challenging side-scrolling puzzles, fans must utilize each AUTOBOT team member to solve problems. Working as a team and combining the abilities of each AUTOBOT is the key to recovering all three Allspark shards before the DECEPTICONS.
- Speed through the Detroit motorways – Gamers experience slot-car racing-inspired driving at high speeds as they race through a fictitious 22nd century Detroit in several fast-paced driving challenges.
Publisher: Activision Publishing, Inc.
Developer: Artificial Mind and Movement
Release Date: October 2008
SRP: $29.99
ESRB Rating: “RP” (Rating Pending)
IGN have been able to preview Activision’s latest Transformers game, Transformers: Animated on the Nintendo DS. The game, developed by Artificial Mind and Movement, replacing Vicarious Visions, who worked on the Transformers Autobots and Decepticons DS games, will be a mix of puzzle solving and driving through streets. Playbable are Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Prowl and must be used as a team to solve the puzzles.
The game is released in October 2008 in North America. No date has been announced for the rest of the world.
At this years E3 game convention, Activision Blizzard showed off their games offerings for 2008 and 2009, including some movie based games like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Quantum of Solace but more importantly Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The sequel based game will be out around the time of the film (June/July 2009) on nearly all platforms. Unlike the first game, which was developed by Traveller’s Tales, this game will be developed by Luxoflux. Luxoflux developed Vigilante 8 on the Nintendo 64 and the True Crime series.
Also announced was the Transformers: Animated game for the Nintendo DS, due out in October. Hopefully some confirmed details on these games will be revealed in the next couple of days.
Recently, a lot of details have been leaked about Microsoft’s future Xbox 360 plans, including many titles from Activision. Inbetween all the Forza 3, Tony Hawk, Spider-Man and Call of Duty news, there was some on the next Transformers game from Acitivision, Transformers 2: The Ultimate Battle.
The game will let you play as both Autobots or Decepticons, with destructible environments, new transformations and will online play, probably only on certain consoles. No news on a release date, but expect full details to be given at E3 next month.
The game is due lanuch on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and again with two versions for the Nintendo DS.
Next-Gen.biz have compiled pretty good estimates of the top 100 selling games of the past 12 months (April 07 – March 08). The list features Transformers: The Game, the Activision published game based on the Transformers movie, which reached number 16, having sold roughly 3.3 million copies worldwide.
The game was beaten by fellow movie based games, Spider-Man 3, also from Activison, which sold 3.4 million at number 15 and The Simpsons Game with 3.9 million at number 11. All three games were published on nearly every platform currently out there. No. 1 game was Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with about 8.3 million sold.
This isn’t exactly news but we know you love something different. Epic Games, the studio behind Gears of Wars and the Unreal Tournament series, Lead Designer Cliff Bleszinski (or Cliffy B as most people call him) is actually a big Transformers fan and has put forward really good idea for a Transformers game in the latest ToyFare issue. So Activision, if you’re reading this, sign up Epic Games, and get this game made:
BLESZINSKI: I’d do the first movie as a playable title. Imagine fighting off thousands of Sharktacons… defending Autobot city while it transforms… or even climbing all over Unicron himself “Shadow of the Colossus” style. I want to control Hot Rod while he’s tearing up the mountainside and that rock song “Dare” is playing in the background. I want the option of Optimus Prime surviving that damned fight with Megatron. I want a Starscream shooting gallery as Galvatron and a Junkion level and a playable Arcee. Will someone out there please make this game already?
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