I made this
blog as an extension of blog #6 and it has more information on transformers:
war for cybertron. So if you don’t want to read this then that’s fine. The main
purpose of the game is kind of like a prologue, before the Autobots and Decepticons
(good guys and bad guys) crash land on earth. Not to be confused with the live
action movies this is before generation one, which was produced around 1984. The
main storyline to it is two sides of the war with the first five levels about
Megatrons rise to power and the other five levels about Optimus Primes role as
leader of the Autobots. The main backstory for the Decepticons is that both
sides have been at war for a million years and Megatron discovers an ancient power known
as dark energon, the only way to obtain it is to attack a space station under
command of Starscream (who is not yet working for Megatron). After he
successfully captures it, he absorbs some of the extremely dangerous dark
energon, he can now control it and use it for his own will. Then megatron gets
to the command center starscream asks megatron to teach him to control dark energon
and he will serve him. Jetfire who also works at the station says that
starscream is a traitor and that zeta prime will hear of this and flies to
cybertron. Megatron then orders the trio to reconnect the energon bridge that feeds
the station. The second mission has Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp
going to cybertron to reconnect an energon bridge to supply the station with
more dark energon. After doing so Megatron realises that if he infects the core
of cybertron with dark energon and it spreads all over the planet that his
power will spread with it. But before he can infect cybertron with dark energon
he has to get through the omega gates, but to do that he must acquire the omega
key so he launches a full scale assault on Iacon, the capitol city of the
Autobots. In this mission you get to play as megatron, breakdown, or soundwave.
During the assault when he gets to the Autobots vault wich holds the omega key.
He uses dark energon to destroy the door, but it does not suffice. The leader
of the Autobots, Zeta Prime, tells megatron that it is futile. Megatron then
orders some of his dark energon bombers to bomb the vault doors. But are shot
down by two anti-air guns.After destroying the anti-air guns emplaced around
the vault, Megatron orders another dark energon bombing run on the vault doors,
which blows most of the doors off. Megatron then goes inside and mortally
wounds Zeta Prime and takes the omega key, but it then starts bleeping. Zeta
Prime tells Megatron that his spies were misinformed, that that was only the
activation key for the omega key and that the omega key would find him. It
turns out that omega supreme is the omega key. so throughout the fourth level
you race around Iacon trying to avoid omega supreme. But at the end of the
level you have to fight him. After the decepticons shoot him down they go after
him to force him to open the omega gate. The final level in the Decepticon
campaign is a boss fight against omega supreme. After you defeat him the
decepticons enter the heart of cybertron and corrupt the core, and that is the
end of the decepticon campaign. The autobot campaign takes place a little bit
after the decepticon campaign. The Autobot main intro scene says: Iacon. The
capitol city of the autobots is crumbling under the onslaught of megatron and
his decepticons. Rumors have spread a bought the defeat of omega supreme and
the autobot leader zeta prime. If the autobots have any hope to band together
and repel the enemy a new hero must emerge. After that tiny bit of info the
autobot campaign starts off in Iacon, but this is after megatron has corrupted
the core of cybertron with dark energon. So, the campaing starts off with
bumblebee racing through the streets of Iacon but is attacked by decepticons
and is forced to stop, But is saved by optimus. Ratchet is with optimus and he
starts to heal bumblebee but bumblebee says there is no time. He says that the
decepticons control the airways and the only safe form of communication is
through messenger and he volunteered and introduces himself. He says he has to
find the autobot called optimus prime, and he has important information for
him. Prime introduces himself, and bumblebee tells him that zeta prime is dead.
At the end of the first mission the autobots receive a message from zeta prime
saying he is being held at the decepticon prison in kaon (kaon is the first city that the decepticons
attacked and they use it as their base area). In the second mission optimus,
along with bumblebee and sideswipe, leads a group of autobot volunteers to be
captured by decepticons and transported to kaon. They rescue zeta prime in the
end but not before they get into a fight with soundwave. Optimus brings zeta to
the autobot council chamber and says that he brings a fallen hero. The council
elders say that optimus is the last prime and that megatron has infected the
core of cybertron and he must go to the core and cleanse cybertron’s core of
the dark energon. The council leader (who looks strangely like zeta) asks
optimus if he will accept this burden and optimus complies. In the third mission
optimus, ironhide, and warpath go to the omega gate to free omega supreme so
that he can open the gate. They get there and free omega supreme they head into
the heart of cybertron. After they defeat a giant dark energon mutant the core
tells optimus that cybertron must enter a sleep mode to purge the dark energon
from its systems and that it will take millions of years in which cybertron
will be cold and barren. The core asks optimus if he will take a fragment of
its spark (heart) to take with him so that they will now that cybertron lives
on. Optimus accepts the burden and recives the matrix of leadership. In the
fourth mission optimus orders the evacuation of all autobot cities effective
immediately, but then ships start getting blown out of the sky and megatrons
face appears on the monitor in front of optimus and megatron says: “I told you
to stay and to defy me was to die”. The decepticons orbital station it seems
has a giant laser mounted on the front and is shooting blasts of dark energon
at the autobot shuttles. Optimus then orders silverbolt to take his soldiers
into space and to destroy the laser. So in the fourth mission you play as one
of three characters to choose from in this level you can chose to play as
silverbolt, jetfire, or air raid. So they fly up there and infiltrate the
orbital station and fight their way to the control station and overheat the
laser, but it turns out that the laser is the giant decepticon tripticon. So
they fly into the laser and locate tripticons transformation cog so that he
turns into his robot form and plummets toward cybertron. For the fifth mission
optimus, ironhide, and bumblebee go to fight tripticon. After defeating him the
autobots continue to evacuate and optimus orders the construction of the ark. I
have not included every detail on the story of the game because this is all off
of memory, so don’t give this bad comment’s. In the actual blog #6 I included
videos for the dlc packs and together they include several new characters and
nine new maps. The game features tree different ways to play online which
includes story mode with either co-op or competitive scoring, old fashion
multiplayer which includes death match, team death match, and more, and the
last type of multiplayer in the game is called escalation which is kind of like
zombies in call of duty, but with transformers instead of people and zombies.
Escalation has a higher level of challenge then in cod because the enemies have
guns and every couple of rounds new enemies come into the fray. The enemies in
ascending order on the original levels are soldier, rocketeer, cloaker, jet,
shotguner, brute, titan, and tank. I might of gotten the order wrong in some
places but don’t judge, it’s not nice. The levels all have a specific side that
you can play on, autobot or decepticon, one or the other. You can choose any of
the playable characters from the story or the special character that you get
after completing either sides campaign which the characters are arcee (autobot)
and slipstream (decepticon). You can also use the dlc characters in multiplayer
and escalation. You also get all the weapons from the story in escalation but
you have to purchase them with your points that you get from kills in game.
There are a whole bunch of weapons in the game including the neutron assault
rifle, shotgun (six bullets, semi auto), EMP shotgun (two bullets, less spread,
full auto), plasma cannon (charge up weapon), thermo rocket launcher (vehicle
lock on) , null-ray (sniper, 10x scope), energon battle pistol (semi auto, 5x
scope), ion blaster (heavy machine gun, optimus’s gun), fusion cannon (megatrons
gun), photon burst rifle (3 round burst, 5x scope), energon repair ray (healing
weapon), magma frag launcher ( sticky grenade launcher), X12 scrap maker
(minigun), ion blaster (machine gun turret). The multiplayer modes also feature
all the guns except the turrets, those are kill streak rewards. The multiplayer
also includes all the character bodies but they are color customizable. The
enemies in escalation all have different weapons and abilities. The machine
gunner has the neutron assault rifle and no abilities, the rocketeer has the
rocket launcher and no abilities, cloakers have the plasma cannon and can turn
invisible, jets have the X12 scrap maker and can hover and turn into a jet,
shotgunners have the EMP shotgun and have an over shield, brutes have a shield
and hammer and the only way to hurt them is to shoot their power packs on their
back, the titans are equipped with an ion blaster and have higher health then
other enemies, tanks are giant enemies that are equipped with a rapid fire
fusion cannon and long range magma frag launcher and turn into a tank in story
mode. In multiplayer there are four classes that characters go into each with different
amounts of health: scout’s (cars), scientists (jets), leader’s (trucks), and
soldiers (tanks).
