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The excellent voice acting by both old veterans and those new to the franchise and high shout-out quotient certainly adds to it. Older fans love the game [[Nostalgia Filter|for these reasons]], and newer fans love the game for [[Rule of Cool|its sheer coolness factor]]. Oh, and the game's actually pretty damn good. The game's success prompted Activision to let High Moon make the ''[[Transformers (Film)|Dark of the Moon]]'' tie-in game, and a ''War For Cybertron'' sequel, ''[[Transformers Fall of Cybertron]]'', is set for release in fall 2012.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Arcee. Being the ONLY female Autobot and up against enemy robots that turn into tanks and jet planes, she holds her own as a small car and does so in style.
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Starscream again receives this treatment. Not only is he a dangerous combatant in the Decepticon forces, but he also takes on Optimus, Bumblebee and Ratchet single-handed and only retreats when he receives heavy damage -- something his G1 counterpart wouldn't have waited around for before running. Oh, and before he fights them, he takes on the Aerialbots and wins ([[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|offscreen, unfortunately]]). It's also mentioned he was the former commander of Cybertron's aerial forces, before being assigned to guard the Energon Station.
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* [[An Adventurer Is You]]: Four classes - [[Mighty Glacier|Soldiers]], [[Fragile Speedster|Scouts]], [[Glass Cannon|Scientists]] and [[Jack of All Stats|Leaders]].
** Which is "borrowed" from a d20 game called Mechamorphs, the developer of which had originally tried to license the Transformers name from Hasbro in 2005.
* [[Anti -Villain]]: He doesn't get much characterization in-game, but the site notes that Thundercracker isn't sure how strongly he believes in the Decepticon cause. Further, he's the most reasonable of the jets, and even seems to retain some scientific curiosity, where the others are just looking for more to kill or irritated at the prospect of being further hindered in their journey.
* [[Arm Cannon]]: How the Transformers hold their weapons--they "transform" their arms into sockets that fit the particular gun they want.
** They use turrets by transforming their entire body into part of the gun. See [[BFG]].
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'''Optimus''': It's purely a matter of ''perspective''. }}
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Damn near ALL of them, with a few exceptions, Optimus being the most obvious one (he's much too humble for it). Megatron will CERTAINLY let you know you're in for a world of hurt.
* [[Bond One -Liner]]: The characters frequently exalt their own abilities or congratulate each other after kills, though only a few are puns. For example, if Optimus headshots someone, he might rumble:
{{quote| '''Optimus''': One shot is all it takes.}}
** If he doesn't say anything, Bumblebee might say:
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* [[Boom Headshot]]: Instant kill on any trooper weaker than a Brute. Can be performed with any weapon with or without Fine Aim, meaning it's possible to get a headshot with a shotgun, or even a grenade launcher.
* [[Boss Dissonance]]: Criticized for having the Mario type, though at higher difficulty levels, anything less than a [[No Damage Run]] will typically result in immediate death.
* [[Breath Weapon]]: {{spoiler|Trypticon}} combines this with [[Frickin' Laser Beams]].
** The boss battle even has this line related to the laser beam that is just such a big G1 throwback it makes one giddy with nostalgia.
{{quote| {{spoiler|Trypticon:}} Feel the burn of my laser!}}
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*** Of course this won't protect you from people in coop mode with more guts then sense who will constantly charge into death traps often forcing you to try and save them or enjoy reloading the last checkpoint.
** Alas, during one mission in the campaign, you have to protect Ratchet from multiple waves of 'Cons, including a Destroyer, while he {{spoiler|repairs Omega Supreme}}.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs]]: Trypticon retains his Godzilla-like form--apparently, even alien robots just ''know'' how awesome dinosaurs are.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Starscream and Megatron are the most common users of this. Though the latter only does it when he's either killed something big in a fight or achieved some important goal.
* [[Evil Is Easy]]: While the campaigns can be played in either order, since the Decepticon campaign occurs first the player is expected to play to start with, and as such the Autobot campaign is intentionally made harder.
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* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Starscream, the usual backstabber, is normally a Decepticon in various Transformers Universes. But at the start of the game, he is aligned to the Autobots. After Megatron manages to acquire the Dark Energon, Starscream, along with his allies Thundercracker and Skywarp, switches sides.
* [[A Father to His Men]]: Optimus, obviously.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: For the Decepticons:
** [[Big Bad]]: Megatron
** [[The Dragon]]: Starscream
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** [[Evil Genius]]: Soundwave
** [[Dark Chick]]: Barricade and Breakdown
* [[Five -Man Band]]: And the Autobots:
** [[The Hero]]: Optimus
** [[The Lancer]]: Sideswipe
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** {{spoiler|Trypticon}}. DEAR GOD, {{spoiler|Trypticon}}!
** Everybody has a rocket launcher that does this in the Wii game.
* [[Market -Based Title]]: The Wii version is titled ''Transformers: Cybertron Adventures'', most likely because it is a significantly different game than the [[PS 3]], 360, PC, and DS versions.
* [[Master of Unlocking]]: Megatron loves to use his new Dark Energon powers to [[Mundane Utility|open doors.]] Megatron can be the NPC variant of this trope [[Captain Obvious|provided you're not playing as him at the time.]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Breakdown is a nervous wreck half the time.
** He's hanging around with [[Bad Boss|Meg]][[Blood Knight|at]][[Leeroy Jenkins|ron]]. Of ''course'' he's nervous.
* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]: Aside from the Transformers themselves, the depths of Cybertron have weird floating robot squids and other such things.
* [[The Medic]]: Ratchet, as usual, but in a surprising twist, [[Anti -Villain|Thundercracker]] and [[Evil Genius|Soundwave]] are the [[Torture Technician|medics]] for the Decepticon side. (Jetfire is also a medic type, but that's not so much outside his purview as it is the game's class system [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist|expanding his purview]].) The Scientist class in multiplayer also serves as the default medical unit.
* [[The Men First]]: Optimus and Ratchet will constantly try to avoid any casualties on their side.
* [[Mini Boss]]: Destroyers. Also the Decepticon War Machines in the first mission of the Autobot campaign.
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* [[Palette Swap]]: As expected, there are a few characters who essentially have the same appearance, but different colours (i.e. Starscream and the Seekers as usual). The game even gives you the option to do this yourself as part of multiplayer customization.
{{quote| '''[[Dumb Muscle|Skywarp:]]''' At least I'm not ugly.<br />
'''[[Anti -Villain|Thundercracker:]]''' Ugly? You and I look the SAME! }}
* [[Paper -Thin Disguise]]: One of the powers of the Scientist class, basically a [[Palette Swap]]. It's even more paper thin to other scientists, who can see the health gauges of all actual allies, but not disguised enemy Scientists, and even more so when someone tries this as Shockwave who has a very unique character model which involves a big purple glowing chest which when using this ability becomes a big red glowing chest. The lack of these obvious distinctions, however, makes it possible to fool an enemy who isn't a fellow Scientist long enough to club them with a melee attack, usually.
* [[The Paragon]]: Both Optimus and Megatron work to inspire their subordinates to be the best of their respective factions, but Optimus is obviously ''much'' more benign about it than Megatron is.
* [[Photoprotoneutron Torpedo]]: Neutron assault rifles, Proton burst rifles, EMP shotguns, Ion blaster, Magma frag launcher.
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** Melee weapons aside, while most characters can equip any two guns they come across, Optimus and Megatron are unable to drop their signature Ion Cannon and Fusion Cannon.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: Both the Decepticons and the Autobots (under Zeta Prime's command anyway) show this behaviour. Come to think of it, it's probably one reason why the Autobots are happy that Optimus is finally in charge, as he doesn't share this attitude.
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: {{spoiler|The Aerialbots decide to take out Trypticon's conversion cog and revert him back to his natural Cybertronian form}}.
{{quote| '''Jetfire''': We don't even know what his original form is!<br />
'''Silverbolt''': Maybe not, but anything is better than this. }}
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: [[Troy Baker]]'s Jetfire clearly has ''some'' sort of accent compared to his [[American Accents|American-accented]] comrades, but there is some debate as to whether that accent is meant to be [[British Accents|British]] or [[Australian Accent|Australian]]. The fact that incarnations of Jetfire have had both accents in previous ''Transformers'' fiction<ref>(''[[Transformers (Film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Jetfire had a Yorkshire accent, while ''[[Transformers Cybertron]]'' Jetfire sounded Aussie)</ref> doesn't help. ([[Word of God|According to Baker]], Jetfire's accent is a "standard" English accent that has been intentionally mutated to sound less "posh" -- so more British than Australian, but not really either.)
** You could say that it's Nebulan.
* [[Wing Man]]: The Aerialbots to one another. While the Seekers have the "chatter in the middle of battle" part down, they don't really care enough for each other for the "watch my six" part. [[Anti -Villain|Thundercracker might]], if the others weren't jackholes.
* [[X Meets Y|W Meets X Meets Y Meets Z...]]: Seriously, it's kinda tough to pin down what it exactly took ideas from to mix together.
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: The character blatantly intended to be Hot Rod in the DS version is called "Hot Shot" rather than the typical "Rodimus". This wouldn't be so bad, if [[Transformers Robots in Disguise|Hot Shot wasn't]] [[Transformers Armada|a different character]].
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