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Transformers War for Cybertron Multiplayer Demo on XBLM Now

Exclusive demo's are hobotastic, if they expect my £40 in a weeks time when they can't even be arsed to do a PS3 demo they can think again.


/Rage
 
TheVampire said:
Am I the only one who thinks that 4 classes isnt enough?
For a 5v5 I think 4 is enough, especially when you see all the options available for abilities and whatnot.

What I want to know is exactly how many different chassis designs are available per class. Every publication or video keeps saying 'multiple'. I'm assuming 3 or 4.
 
Played a good bit of this demo yesterday. Maxed out both classes. I like it a lot. It definitely pushed this game from "Interested" to "Day 1 Buy" for me but I'm a pretty big G1 Transformers fan.
 
Dr. Zoidberg said:
Played a good bit of this demo yesterday. Maxed out both classes. I like it a lot. It definitely pushed this game from "Interested" to "Day 1 Buy" for me but I'm a pretty big G1 Transformers fan.

Zoidberg, what can you liken this to? I'm pretty keen, but the demo exclusivity doesn't help a PS3-only owner. Any further comments on the gameplay/feel?
 
Dr. Zoidberg said:
Played a good bit of this demo yesterday. Maxed out both classes. I like it a lot. It definitely pushed this game from "Interested" to "Day 1 Buy" for me but I'm a pretty big G1 Transformers fan.

It's nice to see some good soldier types playing today. My Scout was certainly closer to breaking even with regard to kills as opposed to getting 22+ etc..

You've really gotta work for your kills by keeping close enough to bait a melee or whirlwind and not moving too far out so as to tempt minigun fire etc..

Feels good man :D

Really not sure about blowing £40 on it though.. It looks like one of those droppers.
 
Pylon_Trooper said:
Zoidberg, what can you liken this to? I'm pretty keen, but the demo exclusivity doesn't help a PS3-only owner. Any further comments on the gameplay/feel?

Honestly, it's hard to say. It's fairly different than everything else. Imagine Halo but you're bigger, it's in the third person, and you can transform into a vehicle and zoom around at the click of a button.

I've drove at guys as a scout, jumped over them, transformed in mid-air, and shot them in the back with the shotgun-esque weapon before transforming again to get the hell out of there. Pretty unique, IMO. But again, I was already a fan of TF in general.

gutter_trash said:
will there by Jets in the game?
I wanna play as Starscream or type like that

It looks like it but they are not in the demo.
 
gutter_trash said:
will there by Jets in the game?
I wanna play as Starscrem or type like that
The Scientist class in multiplayer transforms into jets.

Plus, you can play as Starscream in the Escalation mode I believe among the other popular transformers - which is like Horde/Nazi Zombies.
 
X-Frame said:
The Scientist class in multiplayer transforms into jets.

Plus, you can play as Starscream in the Escalation mode I believe among the other popular transformers - which is like Horde/Nazi Zombies.

Is the Scientist class available on all maps?
 
Dr. Zoidberg said:
Honestly, it's hard to say. It's fairly different than everything else. Imagine Halo but you're bigger, it's in the third person, and you can transform into a vehicle and zoom around at the click of a button.

I've drove at guys as a scout, jumped over them, transformed in mid-air, and shot them in the back with the shotgun-esque weapon before transforming again to get the hell out of there. Pretty unique, IMO. But again, I was already a fan of TF in general.

So it's like the PS2 Armada game.
 
MarshMellow96 said:
Is the Scientist class available on all maps?
Absolutely!

The Scientist is going to be my main class. I feel they have the best abilities and powers. Plus, jets are amazing for supporting your team.
 
Mikasangelos said:
um srsly......

No his question makes sense. If they are fighting on cybertron how in the hell is it simultaneously floating above them? It's like a picture of earth floating in the sky of a WWII picture.
 
Foxix said:
No his question makes sense. If they are fighting on cybertron how in the hell is it simultaneously floating above them? It's like a picture of earth floating in the sky of a WWII picture.

Shyamalan'd.jpg
 
Played a little more of the demo tonight because I am obsessed but I don't want to spoil myself too much for the full game.

But I have a question - does anyone who plays as a Soldier actual USE the Hover ability? I think it's a terrible ability that just leaves you so vulnerable. I guess it's okay in situations where you can get some good elevation beforehand so that you hover high in the air, but normal use it's pretty lame. Double-jumping is much better IMO.
 
canadian crowe said:
Loved the demo, but does anyone think that it will be a ghost town after a month? Either way it's only 40 Canadian, so I bit.
I don't think so at all. Figure there's really no MP games coming out this summer so I think it'll be hopping for the summer.

I'm also really excited for the campaign.
 
I cannot believe that the Wii version was a complete no show at E3. :/

I thought it was a shoe-in for the show finally, but nada.

Only the back cover at GameFly can give us a look at it, hell I wouldn't be surprised if they use CG shots on the back cover. :/

I'm nearly on the edge of my seat, dying to know how the damn thing looks. The sheer mystery is the reason for that. :P
 
Sill4 said:
My friend is streaming the campaign right now (360) http://www.justin.tv/mrzero20#r=jVAoitk~

You can get a good idea of how the game is.

Hope it's ok that I post a link.
Sucks that he's having ammo issues. Kinda worrying. This is not the kind of game I want to worry about ammo in. :lol

Regardless the single player looks fairly decent. Little more than a shooting gallery from what I've seen of it on the stream.
 
Hero of Legend said:
I cannot believe that the Wii version was a complete no show at E3. :/

I thought it was a shoe-in for the show finally, but nada.

Only the back cover at GameFly can give us a look at it, hell I wouldn't be surprised if they use CG shots on the back cover. :/

I'm nearly on the edge of my seat, dying to know how the damn thing looks. The sheer mystery is the reason for that. :P

If they haven't shown it and it wasn't at E3, then odds are it's not very good. I've been looking forward to seeing what the game was gonna be like especially at E3, but they couldn't even show it then, and that's pretty sad. Same with Force Unleashed.
 
He;s doing multi right now.

At first, SP looked really bland with small environments. near the end of the first mission it started opening up.

The scientist class only has THREE blocks of health, but he is faster than a greased fart. Plus he has a healing beam.
 
Darn, I missed the single player stuff. Hopefully, the boss fights are good in the single player. So far he doesn't seem to be very good at this :lol

EDIT: OH snap escalation looks great :lol
 
I thought that this felt quite a lot like Unreal Championship, from the XBox, actually. It's fast but heavy, with a fair chunk of melee going on.
 
whatevermort said:
I thought that this felt quite a lot like Unreal Championship, from the XBox, actually. It's fast but heavy, with a fair chunk of melee going on.

Glad I'm not the only one who played that :lol
 
Doing escalation now. It's pretty much horde mode with transformers. But that's a good thing!

It seems to be a good way to practice the new classes, so keep that in mind before you hop into multi as a scientist.

-edit-

He;s doing Autobot campaign now, so fucking epic.
 
CryptiK said:
I have the full game on PS3 playing now :D

IMPRESSIONS, IMPRESSIONS!!!!!!

Edit: watching the stream... Is Johnny Yong Bosch really doing the voice of bumblebee? Weird... Not sure if I like that.
 
X-Frame said:
.. Can't tell if serious ..
Can't tell if serious about me being serious...
Foxix said:
No his question makes sense. If they are fighting on cybertron how in the hell is it simultaneously floating above them? It's like a picture of earth floating in the sky of a WWII picture.
Thank you.
 
Ok so pumped for this. Looks great but the guy playing is seriously the third worst video game player I've ever seen in my life.
 
Foxix said:
Ok so pumped for this. Looks great but the guy playing is seriously the third worst video game player I've ever seen in my life.
Oh come on, don't be one of those people. He's doing fine. We can't all be pro mlg kids.

Foxix said:
IMPRESSIONS, IMPRESSIONS!!!!!!

Edit: watching the stream... Is Johnny Yong Bosch really doing the voice of bumblebee? Weird... Not sure if I like that.
Wiki says he is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Yong_Bosch
 
so far the Campaign isnt really anything special I am only up to the second chapter though.. haent tried multi yet since I believe I am the only one in Australia that has it xD so impressions are on hold and yes Johnny is doing the voice of Bumblebee
 
Foxix said:
He's ok, it's just it took him foreeeeever to figure out that boss fight :lol And it's not like I said he's the worst. Only the 3rd worst. He gets a bronze.
:lol :lol :lol His screams are so epic. Remember, he is on Hard.

So far, my only gripe is the reloading. Even in the demo, it just bogs down the action. Ad why does a transformer reload anyway? I think an overheat system would have been a better option.

Game looks really fun so far. Autobot campaign had some cool moments.
 
If there was no reloading I assume things would be a bit too chaotic in MP especially. I can only imagine Soldiers with unlimited chain-gun ammo ..
 
Eh, I don't want to watch the SP .. (don't want to get spoiled) .. and I know it's a little hard to ask him to play MP with a total of 19 people playing .. but still.

I just want to see the Scientist and Leader in action.
 
Demo has been amazing. I just really wish we could see how the other two classes play into it; right now the game doesn't quite feel right with the David and Goliath balance between the two playable classes. It's really tempting to pick this up at launch...
 
divisionbyzorro said:
Demo has been amazing. I just really wish we could see how the other two classes play into it; right now the game doesn't quite feel right with the David and Goliath balance between the two playable classes. It's really tempting to pick this up at launch...

Which one is David and Goliath?

I swear from what I am seeing, the Scout's are beasting it on the Soldier's pretty bad. Unless you're up against a smart Soldier who spams the mini-gun and rocket launcher .. :D
 
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