Transformers: Dark Of The Moon Preview: Preliminary Prequel Prologue

"We're not going to give you a see-the-movie, play-the-movie experience," mentioned High Moon's Studio diversion executive Shawn Miller. "We're office building an initial storyline that you created working really keenly with Hasbro and Paramount that is a prequel voluntary to the film. It allows us to set up a few of the characters and situations from the movie without spoiling what's in the movie. It moreover lets us concentration on the practice of the particular Transformers as well."

See, different War for Cybertron , Dark of the Moon doesn't supply well-defined Autobot and Decepticon campaigns. Instead, different levels concentration on the use of disdainful Transformers from both sides, inclusive Bumble Bee, Soundwave, Megatron and Ironhide. All turn has a definite Transformer and they aren't interchangeable, but the gameplay type is wholly uniform.

The demo jumped around a bit, giving me a peek at short snippets of any level. The war looked flattering paltry -- any turn was a in a line path, with the infrequent challenger waylay to blend up the plodding pace. Whether it was Bumblebee creation his way by an undisclosed wooded area (each turn was declared is to Transformer it starred) or Ironhide on foot by a town beneath siege, it was all really formulaic. Each Transformer had a well-defined special weapon, but in the finish it was only robots sharpened at other robots.

Vehicles are a bit more objectionable this time around, though. Now the Transformers are ample more flexible and can openly torpedo when in their van form, extenuation them a startling amount of objectionable power. But it indispensable more style! Circle-strafing gets the work done, but carrying out that via an whole diversion frequency seems similar to a convincing prospect.

Cybertron done for a great surroundings and to not see it here is disheartening. War for Cybertron's strife was best diversion fodder: a strive between hulk robots on a remote world is the type of things you design when you squeeze a front in to our console tray. And for all of High Moon's braggadocio how this isn't a "see the movie, fool around the movie" experience, it of course walked and talked similar to a protected game.