Fun fact: Because many fans were "irritated by Michael Bay's insect-like versions" (which were nicknamed "Bayformers") of the Autobots and Decepticons, the design The team put a more "modern" spin on the style, hoping to evoke the feel of the Generation 1 cartoon. Overview Hanging on almost every wall is a giant poster depicting stunning concept art on the theme of Transformers. There are a lot of walls in High Moon Studio's warehouse-filling offices. The sheer amount of conceptual work the developer has done for its next game has to be some sort of world record. In one corner, a programmer adds a few lines of code to the game, while watching VHS tapes of the original. Transformers cartoon from the 80s. Each cabin is filled to the brim with toys, memorabilia, accessories and posters related to the 25-year-old franchise. The original Hasbro toy line, centered on the war between two transforming robot factions, grew over two and a half decades to encompass cartoons, movies, comics, video games and more. Unfortunately, the games have generally sucked. But no more! Cybertron Revealed Hasbro has given High Moon carte blanche, allowing the developer to be creative with a property its employees love. One aspect of the Transformers' history that has remained mostly intact is their home world of Cybertron, so High Moon used that as its central premise: the war between two factions on Cybertron, before events brought the battle to Earth. Convention, the studio first built a game, then applied the license. Usually, developers tasked with creating a game for a license tend to work from the top down, trying to fit a game into the license's paradigms. The...... middle of paper...... Decepticons of Unicron's Resurrection (the great planet-eating Transformer from the Generation 1 movie). Cybertron was pretty much its own thing and its own story, and ended up being mostly irrelevant. 2002-2006: Transformers: WarriorsGeneration 1, Beast Wars and Beast Machines all combined into one line of comically expensive toys. 2007–present: Michael Bay's Big Robots punch each other while Shia LeBouf tries to act. You've seen the movies (Transformers & Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). They're pretty cool, and they have comics associated with them. 2007-2009: Transformers: AnimatedCartoon Network aired this strange hyper-anime cartoon, in which the Autobots play at being superheroes, fighting evil humans. 2010 to present: The future Hasbro will be releasing a toy line based on the Transformers: War for Cybertron game, and it's going to be cool.