A documentary about War for Cybertron, Fall of Cybertron, and why these games had no sequels. Thought it was interesting and nicely made so I’m sharing here.
For the opening bit in one of the chapters of “Fall of Cybertron”, you get to play from the perspective of one of the regular decepticon troops and let me tell you, it is a gift.
To give an idea what it’s like, this, two vehicon best friends – and that is not hyperbole, one of them actually refers to the other as that in-game – getting caught playing a shooter game when they’re supposed to be on duty is the genuine opening.
I’m such a sucker for the characterisation of regular troops like this. It’s always great to get to see.
It’s just a shame though how this particularly incidence quickly turns so tragic.
Since I’ve been reminded of a post I made on Aligned Soundwave’s multiple design changes recently I think I’d might as well talk about one of my more favorite design changes, Bumblebee’s.
Now thankfully there wasn’t any visual flashbacks in the shows or the comics that were based on the shows centered on Bumblebee’s creation just before War For Cybertron, from what I remember anyways, so it would be safe to say that his very first appearance, obviously War For Cybertron, would be his first design
This design was a pretty small round and looks very young yet he also looks ready to head to the frontlines, which is fitting since it’s implied that he was born somewhat recently before the Autobot Campaign.
Like before these designs were used for IDW Bumblebee around
The Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime before getting modified to his “Goldbug’ look (they never named him Goldbug when he was rebuilt because there was already an pre-existing, separate character named Goldbug in Spotlight: Metroplex)
Now he still kept this design during
Cybertron Adventures and Fall of Cybertron so there really isnt much change between the three games so lets just head over to the next mold, the Transformers Prime design.
With this look it seems that they wanted to add a Bayformers look to him since the movies were pretty relevant at the time but none the less this looks shows off that he grown since he left Cybertron but has yet to fully mature just yet.
While his build didnt change in Beast Hunters but he did get some new colors to hide himself from the Decepticons after the Autobots’ base blew up (this was mostly to sell toys on Hasbro’s part but hey it looks good so I can’t complain)
At some point between Prime and BH he visited the Rescue Bots, though this design change is just adapting the TFP look with the show’s “modified G1″ art style than an actual change.
About 20 years after Beast Hunters we reach to Tranformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)
As we can tell he has grown even more than his TFP look and and has a much sleeker and smoother design to show that he’s fully mature and is ready for responsibility.
Honorary mention to Transformers Universe Bumblebee who never was thanks to the game’s cancellation, thus I cannot exactly pin point where exactly this design should go in.
So yeah unlike I’ve mention in the Aligned Soundwave post where the changes in chronological order in the timeline felt weird,
somewhat inconsistent, and out of place since his body size and measurements were vastly different in each series; I liked these changes more because they show that Bumblebee has grown a lot since his original appearance as a fresh off of the assembly line messenger to his current appearances an Autobot leader who is ready to take on some responsibility! (Kinda)
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