With Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Game still hot on shelves, then next gaming issue for the Transformers Universe has just been announced!

Transformers: The War for Cybertron is in development by High Moon Studios (developers of ‘Darkwatch’ & ‘The Bourne Conspiracy’) and is due for release through Activision early in the 3rd quarter of 2010. Alth ough currenlt only slated for release on the Playstation 3, XBox 360 and PC, being Activision it’s a fair assumption that there’ll be further released for the Wii, DS & PSP (as there were for the two Transformer Movie based Games)

According to the December issue of ‘Game Informer’, this new game is taking its cues from ‘Gears of War’ being a third-person shooter that chronicles the Autobot’s battles waged against the evil forces of the Decepticons. As with ‘Revenge of the Fallen: The Game’ and ‘The Game’ it also features a Decepticon campaign allowing you to crush all opposition to your rule of Cybertron. Unlike those two games it is not a movie based game (and hopefully won’t suffer the curse of Movie games).

Set on Cybertron, the events in the game occur long before the Transformers first contact with Earth. It’s you choice whether you want to believe its set before the 1984 Transformers Cartoon or comic, or durring Dreamwave’s ‘War Within’ series, or prior to the Armada series, or the Movie continuity, about the only continuity it can’t represent is Transformers: Animated. However you look at it the game is populated with a myriad of cool Cybertronian alt modes and huge alien sets to lose your Transformers in.

Playabale Characters (as currently reported) include a similar line up to the Movie based games: Optimus Prime, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Ironhide (in his original Red Deco), Silverbolt (representing the Autobots Air Support), Megatron (with a tank changeform), Soundwave (with an armoured truck changeform), Starscream & Onslaught with cameos &/or Boss fights from the likes of Thundercracker, Skywarp, Devastator, Omega Supreme and Biggest Decepticon of them all Trypticon!

The astetics for the character designs have more in common with the cancelled Transtech toy line and the Titanium 6″ ‘War Within’ toys than any other Transformers series. And the good news for fans of the Cybertronian alt modes is that Hasbro has a toyline planned to back-up the game and has been in talks with Discovery channel about the development of a new cartoon series (current state of development unknown).

Other Transformers Games to look out for:

There have been several console games made for the Transformers franchise starting way back on the Commodore 64 (1986). Back then the games really were nothing special, mostly being rehashes of earlier games with Transformers related graphics.

Transformers: Beast Wars PS/PC
Animorphs GameBoy
Transformers: Beast Wars GameBoy
Transformers: Beast Wars: Metals (Japanese Exclusive) PSX
Transformers: The Hunt for Energon (Armada Based Game) PS2
Transformers: Takatai (Japanese Exclusive) PS2
Dream Mix TV World Fighters (Japanese Exclusive) PS2
Transformers: The Game PS2/PS3/PC/Xbox/PSP/DS/Wii
Transformers: Animated DS
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The Game PS2/PS3/PC/Xbox/PSP/DS/Wii
Transformers: The War for Cybertron PS3/PC/Xbox/?PS2/PSP/DS/Wii?