Players were also limited to only selecting the Soldier or Scout class. To its own demise however, it was multiplayer-only, with Team Deathmatch and Conquest being the two available modes. It has three player co-op in both campaigns, but local co-op with neither, unfortunately, and an extensive multiplayer component with class customization similar to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sub-series.Ī demo became available on June 10th, 2010 exclusively on the Xbox 360.
Its most defining feature is the seamless transition between the two modes of play a single button press and the player character transforms between Robot Mode and Vehicle Mode. War for Cybertron is a third person shooter with vehicular combat elements included. Overall, the entire style of the game is a mixture of various inspirations, with the developers stating that for inspiration they looked at the cartoon, the live-action movies, the comics, and several unrelated science-fiction films such as Tron, Aliens and Blade Runner. Originally intended to stand on its own as a franchise, War for Cybertron's character design is a deliberate homage to the original 80's cartoon, "The Transformers", though the characterization and storyline are entirely original, such as the idea that the villainous Starscream was originally an Autobot. As the game is set long before any Cybertronian had ever met a Human, characters transform into futuristic, utilitarian vehicle modes instead of replications of Earth vehicles. Transformers: War for Cybertron is set millions of years in the past, during the civil war between the noble Autobots and the vile Decepticons, on the Transformer homeworld of Cybertron.