Another special feature this week from the GI team is hosted by Phil Kollar and features Andy Reiner, Dan Ryckert, and Matt Miller. It’s obvious right from the start that these four are legit Transformers fans with discussion of the various cartoon incarnations along with Phil needling the Michael Bay films and Hasboro for making everything canon. They also share an interesting fact that High Moon Studios, who is developing the game, studied a short clip of Cybertron from the animated movie over and over.

After a minor spoiler around 10 minutes in, they move on to discuss how unlike how the cartoons sometimes portray Cybertron as a sterile metal world, the game will show off a more active environment. Phil also reveals, although hesitantly, that the game will have co-op as well as some type of multiplayer mode. Most of the rest of the episode is filled with discussion of the various cybertronian forms for the Transformers. A big reveal at the end of the show is that many of the G1 voice actors will be involved with the game, including Peter Cullen reprising his role as Optimus Prime.

If you’ve been around the site at all this month, you’ve almost certainly caught some of our month-long coverage of Activision’s newly-announced Transformers: War For Cybertron (and if you haven’t, you can visit our hub page now and catch up). We’ve reached the end of our month of exclusive first looks at the game, and we’re celebrating with this special edition podcast. Resident Game Informer Transformers nerds Andrew Reiner and Matt Miller join Philip Kollar and Dan Ryckert, who went to see the game last month. The group discusses what would make for a perfect Transformers game, what we’ve seen of War For Cybertron so far, and a few of the elements — like co-op and competitive online multiplayer — that have yet to be fully revealed. Our last podcast of the year also includes a full music track from War For Cybertron.

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