NEWS
by Mark Barley
Activision Pushing 'Transformers: Fall of Cybertron' Hard
Transformers: War for Cybertron didn't achieve huge success due to a lack of publisher support. Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be different.
According to developer High Moon Studios Fall of Cybertron director Matt Tieger, the game will see more success than its predecessor mainly because of added publisher support from Activision. In a recent interview with Ausgamers, the developer was not happy with how first Transformers title's multiplayer was received.
“Frankly, multiplayer was pretty darn good in War for Cybertron. There were two problems with multiplayer,” he said.
“One, the community wasn’t big enough. I think with multiplayer games, there’s a certain tipping-point, where you just get this self-sustaining group. We didn’t achieve that, but I think we will on this game. Mostly because it’s a higher quality game, and Activision’s really getting behind this one.”
Tieger also said that one of the other problems with the first title was a lack of customization options within the game. Those have since been addressed. “One, the community wasn’t big enough. I think with multiplayer games, there’s a certain tipping-point, where you just get this self-sustaining group. We didn’t achieve that, but I think we will on this game. Mostly because it’s a higher quality game, and Activision’s really getting behind this one.”
“We barely delivered on expectations, I feel like for War for Cybertron, on what character customisation could we do,” he said.
“So we knew we had to turn that to 11, and we did. It is awesome. Players who like customisation – whether they’re Transformers fans or not – will spend ten hours in the menus just building Transformers; it’s awesome.”
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is out in August for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
“So we knew we had to turn that to 11, and we did. It is awesome. Players who like customisation – whether they’re Transformers fans or not – will spend ten hours in the menus just building Transformers; it’s awesome.”