Transformers: War for Cybertron: Difference between revisions

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: This is a far more intense Transformers adaptation than is the usual fare, [[Beyond the Impossible|even more than]] [[Transformers (film)|Bayformers]]. For one thing, it's not just the Decepticons that have nameless legions of cannon fodder.

* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: In the ''Exodus'' [[All There in the Manual|tie-in novel]], Megatron's goal for doing what he does is to free Cybertron from an oppressive caste system that stifles personal ambition and cultural development. By the time of ''War for Cybertron'', however, he's devolved into the megalomaniacal tyrant we all know and love, promising to relieve the population of Cybertron of "the burdens of freedom and choice."

** Although the view that Megatron was not always an evil bot is still popular—indeed, it seems to be canon in most modern continuities.

** Megatron's quip about relieving them of the burdens of freedom and choice could also be interpreted as satire, since the Decepticons are forcing Iacon's people to join, similar as to how Zeta prime's caste system forced Megatron and many others to be lower-class workers. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Both subverted and played straight with {{spoiler|Trypticon. Subverted in that he survives a fall from ''orbit''; played straight in that Optimus, Bumblebee, and Ironhide manage to defeat him by blowing out his power cores and causing him to fall down a chasm. And even then, we [[Never Found the Body|can't be certain that actually killed him]]...}}

** {{spoiler|They didn't. He becomes the Nemesis according to Exodus. But his mind is out and out ''gone'', so he's running on a mixture of autonomous systems and the Decepticons working various stations and posts inside his body.}}

* [[Downloadable Content]]: So far, the DLC has introduced new maps and characters for multiplayer and Escalation mode, including all three [[Preorder Bonus]] characters.

* [[Elite Mooks]]: [[Drop the Hammer|Brutes]], [[BFG|Titans]], and the aforementioned [[Heavily Armored Mook|overshield-equipped]] grenadiers.