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The previous Transformers: War for Cybertron video gave viewers a glimpse of what modes to expect from multiplayer combat. Now this video explains how the game will include four distinct classes to choose from to best suit the player's style. Once a class is chosen, players can further customize their characters with colors, weapons and skills. In the end, players will have their own unique characters to charge into battle and take on opponents. The War for Cybertron releases on June 22nd.

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Transformers: The War for Cybertron takes combat continues far past the single player campaign. Players can prove Autobot or Decepticon dominance in a variety of multiplayer modes, where they'll be to change into different vehicles to blast or outrun opponents. The war for Cybertron starts when the game releases on June 22nd.

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We have to admit getting more and more interested in Transformers: War For Cybertron. The newest game based on the toy license just released a new multiplayer trailer that shows that the game will let players do what we always wanted to do when we were kids; make our own Transformer character with a host of different options and weapons.

The game, from developer High Moon Studios and publisher Activision, looks like it will have lots of potential for multiplayer battles. The trailer also reveals at the very end that the game will ship out to stores on June 22.

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Transformers, like many cartoon / toy properties shaped and influenced the development of many children back in the day. Well, those kids are all grown up now and the artists and developers at High Moon Studios are eager to bring things to an all new level with Transformers: War for Cybertron. This developer video reveals the inspiration and background behind creating the first recent Transformers game that isn't based on a movie, which covers the civil war on Cybertron - an event that's often referred to but never shown in any great detail.

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Transformers: War for Cybertron recounts the battle between the giant robots before they made their way to Earth. It's the first recent Transformers game made without the influence of an explosive Michael Bay film, and this trailer gives first looks at some of the actual gameplay. The game is expected to release sometime in the summer.

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A teaser trailer for Transformers: The War for Cybertron released, announcing the first recent Transformers game that isn't based off a movie plot. This trailer extends the original teaser with greater detail, showing the motivations behind the civil war on Cybertron. It's an epic struggle between Autobots fighting for freedom and Decepticons battling for control, and players will get a front row seat as they choose which campaign to play. What isn't revealed is a expected release date.

"Transformers: War for Cybertron features two distinct storylines: the AUTOBOT campaign tells a story of heroism to save their home planet against overwhelming odds, and the DECEPTICON campaign tells a story of an unquenchable thirst for power to control the universe. For the first time in a TRANSFORMERS title, fans will be able to play the game with their friends through team-based online co-op, or go head to head in a variety of intense, online multiplayer game modes. The game features a sci-fi art style that introduces to fans the entire living, metallic world of CYBERTRON, as well as all-new visualizations of the iconic TRANSFORMERS characters in their original Cybertronian forms."

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Activision's use of the Transformers game license has so far been restricted to releasing titles based on the two Michael Bay-directed live action games. Both titles were released for the PC (including last summer's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, pictured above) but neither were considered to be, you know, good. That may not be the case for Activision's first all original Transformers game title which is coming to the PC and other platforms in 2010.

The Transformers fan site Seiberton.com has the info on the third person action title which they got from the new print issue of Game Informer magazine. Transformers: The War For Cybertron is being developed by High Moon Studios and will apparently feature campaigns for both Autobots and Decepticons. A trailer for the new game will be shown on Spike TV's Gametrailers show on Thursday night.

High Moon Studios, developer of the recent The Bourne Identity title as well as 2005's Darkwatch, has released a significant chunk of its staff, reports Gamasutra. Acquired by Vivendi Games in January 2005, the High Moon layoffs are another part of the fallout from the Activision Blizzard merger which took place last month. According to Gamasutra, the layoffs involve as many as 60 employees, leaving the majority of the studio's 150 employed staff members intact.

Forecast of the layoffs appeared in a statement issued by Activision in late July. Activision stated that "...the company intends to adapt the Vivendi Games' studio operations to better align the studio structure against the new product slate," with Radical Entertainment and High Moon Studios specifically targeted for staff realignment.