Youngblood, Mitch. "Transformers: War for Cybertron". Gaming Trend. Archived from the original on 2010-06-26 . Retrieved 2010-10-23.

Tasked with purging Cybertron's core of Dark Energon, Optimus, his friend Ironhide, and rookie Autobot soldier Warpath travel to the core's entrance, discovering it has been converted into a Decepticon stronghold. The trio frees Omega Supreme, who has been tortured with Dark Energon, and defend Ratchet while he heals him, whereupon Omega grants the Autobots access to the core. Fighting their way past Deception soldiers and a Cybertronian worm corrupted by Dark Energon, the Autobots eventually reach the core, which speaks to Optimus. It reveals that the only way to fix the damages done by the Dark Energon is to reboot itself, which will leave Cybertron a cold, barren and lifeless planet for millions of years. However, the core can stay partially alive during this time if Optimus carries a small piece of it with him. Optimus accepts the burden and the core bestows the Autobot Matrix of Leadership into Optimus' chest. The Transformers: War for Cybertron video games launched the franchise alongside the novel Transformers: Exodus. Published by Activision and developed by High Moon Studios, Next Level Games and Vicarious Visions, the games are rooted in the Aligned continuity family. They depict the events of the Cybertronian war that led to the Dark Energon contamination of the planet and sent the Transformers into deep space. Westbrook, Loga (2010-06-10). "Fight the Decepticons in War For Cybertron Demo". The Escapist. Archived from the original on 2010-06-14 . Retrieved 2010-06-10. The idea of an online game that would support the development of the Aligned universe had evidently been tossed around early in development; Jagex unveiled Transformers Universe as a Prime prequel in the form of an MMORPG at BotCon 2011. However, fluctuating creative teams took the game in a wildly different direction, and after years of delays and reinventions the game limped into open beta in 2014 as an online battle game—almost a year after Prime ended. The game never got off the ground and ultimately closed in December of the same year without ever having left beta; a similar fate befell the Universe's Chinese counterpart, Transformers Online, which launched in 2012 but only lasted a few months before NetDragon abruptly shuttered the game. Alright! What's the square root of pi?! What's the capital of Sierre Leone?! What's... awww, this 'ask questions later' thing doesn't work at all."You can help Transformers Wiki by expanding it. What's needed: Descriptions for everything from Power of the Primes onward The ion blaster is a kind of laser rifle and the primary weapon of several Optimus Primes. Only used by the leader of the Autobots when all attempts at peace have failed, the ion blaster ensures that freedom is the right of all sentient beings, and strikes fear in the sparks of the Decepticons who are foolish enough to challenge him. Optimus Prime was once a young and simple data clerk and archivist named Optimus, satisfied with his job. He was always anxious of the inequality amongst the Cybertronians and thus, after gaining inspiration from an outspoken gladiator named Megatron's call for an upheaval of Cybertron's society, took a stand to rid the oppressive caste system which hindered the freedom of all the sentient beings on Cybertron. Little did he realize that his instructor, the master archivist Alpha Trion, knew of a secret potential within the data clerk, and that Cybertron's history was at a precipice. He is a loyal soldier who believes in justice and will do all he can to aid the Autobots. Megatron crushes cranial unit of a poor Autobot, Starscream is visible behind him, just before the ground assault.

Enemy Civil War: The non-team Deathmatch option has all players as Decepticons, presumably either in a live-fire exercise or simulating the Pits of Kaon. a b c McShea, Tom (2010-06-25). "Transformers: War for Cybertron Review". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2010-06-28 . Retrieved 2010-06-27. Between 2011 and 2014, the UK-based Titan Magazines reinvented its ongoing Transformers magazine to include original Prime comics. War for Cybertron is played from a third-person perspective. Transformers are classified into four main categories: Leader, Soldier, Scientist, and Scout. Each character in the campaign is classified as one of these types, and their weaponry, abilities and vehicle form are largely influenced by their character class. Players can change between forms at will, and each form has unique abilities. While in robot form characters can also collect different weapons, reminiscent of those found in first-person shooters. [1] While in vehicle form each character can boost their speed. [1]A video game based on the Transformers franchise, released on June 22, 2010. Set before the Transformers come to Earth, the story is set entirely on their home planet of Cybertron. The game is meant to be the basis for an entirely new continuity and to set the stage for storylines of the franchise for years to come. The story is a set-up for the Transformers: Prime TV series. Finishing off the trilogy with a bang and celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the original Beast Wars franchise, the War for Cybertron: Kingdom line took a new spin on both the Beast Wars and its famous time travelling theme. Waking up from stasis before 1984, the Autobots and Decepticons found themselves caught up in the Beast Wars where the Maximals and Predacons had been fighting over the AllSpark to right the wrongs the Transformers' battle had brought to their future timeline.