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G1 Starscream coming to Transformers: RotF in DLC pack photo

Luxoflux has revealed that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will be getting a downloadable expansion pack, one that contains a few items that could have rescued the game from a cruel 4.5 review on Destructoid. Chief among the additions is Starscream as he was always meant to be -- appearing in his glorious Generation 1 form. 

G1 Starscream is but one of ten brand new characters that the pack is adding. A number of new characters will also be available for single-player as well as the multiplayer modes. Speaking of multiplayer, there will be three new maps to keep things spicy. As if that wasn't enough, there will be a new Expert difficulty level, new leaderboard challenges and even new Achievements/Trophies. 

No word on a price yet, but I'm legitimately impressed by the wealth of content being made available, considering this is a licensed games, and such titles are often made to be forgotten. The simple inclusion of G1 Starscream is enough to make me happy ... I love Starscream more than my own wife.








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Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:43
Tubatic
Whoa. that's a pretty impressive looking StarScream...

hmm...
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:44
Chris Carter
As he is my favorite character, I am buying this game at bargain price, period.

I've wanted a G1 Star Scream to play with since I was a kid. The question is, will StarScream's ghost DLC be following?
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:44
covah
thats cool... too bad the game sucks

Starscream sucked in RotF. Just chilling in space... you wouldn't even have known it was him had he not said it in the first minute.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:44
Holyetheline
I always thought this game had shitty graphics for being a current gen game.
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:45
covah
wait no

I'm thinking of Soundwave

nevermind.

Starscream was a pussy though.
Midgetsnowman's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:50
Midgetsnowman
<3 Starscream
flabzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:52
flabzilla
Makes me wonder why they couldn't go with the G1 look, I could hardly tell them apart in the film.
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:54
Monodi
Sheeesh, Starscream himself almost made this game awesome.
randombullseye's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:56
randombullseye
Because I want my favorite transformer from the old series to kick the shit out of all the effeminate looking new ones.
JerinsFury's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 18:57
JerinsFury
Now, if ALL the characters had the optional G1 skin I would go right down to my local Gamestop and buy this game now.

Cause, that Starscream is making me kind of hot<3
ArchArbiter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:02
ArchArbiter
Who dares interrupt my coronation!?
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:03
Monodi
@flabzilla

Because the new ones are SPACESHIPS and XTREMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Chris Carter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:09
Chris Carter
@Monodi
It's funny that every Transformer had cybertronian designs in the first episode of G1, and then the creators decided to have them come to Earth and mimic real life vehicles to familiarize them more with the audience (oh, and because the toy designs were easier to make).

Michael Bay, what hath you wrought!
Topher Cantler's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:12
Topher Cantler
FUCK YEAH BOGLINS... oh, wait
Isay Isay's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:21
Isay Isay
Will a Moonbase!!! also be included in the DLC?
CRAZYAPE69's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:36
CRAZYAPE69
i love starscream!
X-angwin8r's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:39
X-angwin8r
My one great hope is that Soundwave will play a bigger role in the next movie, thus justifying him as a playable character in the corresponding game adaptation, who will then be the subject of a DLC enabling you play him with his G1 design, who can also deploy his various tape-minions at will.

Is that so much to ask?
Nicojay2's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 19:43
Nicojay2
Having, for the first time in years, seen Starscream in his original glory I now dislike Michael Bay even more.
Puppy Licks's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 20:00
Puppy Licks
Damn, the wear and tear detail on that G1 model is pretty awesome. They really need to make another G1 TF game.
Technophile's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/15/2009 21:34
Technophile
Game is still terrible though.
ajaxender's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 04:06
ajaxender
I like the new Transformers. I think they were well designed and animated, and they actually seemed to put some effort into making their transformed shapes make sense. So Starscream was quite stocky, since the F-22 jet is fairly short and wide.

However, modernized old-style Starscream = WIN. That is some cool shit.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 04:21
Darren Nakamura
This is a bit off topic, but isn't calling a 4.5 review "cruel" sort of perpetuating the idea of a five to ten review scale, where five is bad? While a 4.5 isn't good, it shouldn't be viewed as bad either, and regardless of any of that, it's not a cruel score if it is the score it deserved. It would be cruel if you gave a good game a low score, but a mediocre game getting a mediocre score? That's just fair.
Solid Squirrel's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 07:31
Solid Squirrel
@ajaxender: Okay Mr. Bay, we know that's you. Come out with your hands up. Nothing you say will justify your bastardizing classic characters.
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 07:35
EternalDeathSlayer
Actually I would think any game that gets a 4.5 sucks.

I still look at it like it's school, and a 65 is passing. A 45 is failing and failing hard.
nilcam's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 07:53
nilcam
Actually, Destructoid uses a 10 point scale so a 4.5 is just under average, a C- in the school analogy. Just sayin'.
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 08:53
free touch
hmmmm.. i may have to get this game. I'll find it at the swap.

a few things...

Starscream is a pussy. That's his character.

The designs are actually better in htis movie, because the designers where influenced A LOT by TF:Animated (instead of tall lanky robots, more bulbous, defined shapes, colors, etc).

Basterdizing classic Characters??? You must have been asleep for the past 20 years, because, with that logic, they've bastadized the designs in every show that wasn't g1. Look at Movieverse as another adaption, much like Beastwars, RID, Unicron Saga, etc.

@Jim. Way to go bro, I'm glad you've finally got off the TF Hate Train. And I love the quote. Is it bad that I actually read that in Leonard Nemoy's voice?
Myztik Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 10:01
Myztik Man
They need to make a game based on the old cartoons, even though i did like the movie'..in my opinion(maybe cuz im a transformers geek) the older stuff is better.
triclops41's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 10:37
triclops41
Any news on other G1 skins? I want bumblebee, ironhide, ratchet, megatron, every goddamn character in G1. Every transformer in these movies is grotesque and shameful. And we need a prime skin without stupid flames.
JiR INC's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 14:06
JiR INC
amen to that sir I will buy the game if this is happening
lv99ron's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 14:19
lv99ron
@ArchArbiter
Coronation Starscream? This is more like a bad comedy.
foxhound421's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 14:29
foxhound421
i don't care how bad it is, if they keep adding G1 skins to the game i'm buying it. that Starscream looks EPIC!
foxhound421's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 14:29
foxhound421
i don't care how bad it is, if they keep adding G1 skins to the game i'm buying it. that Starscream looks EPIC!
CJSchmidt's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/16/2009 15:38
CJSchmidt
This makes me ask the obvious question: How about they just make a good G1 game?
invaderkim's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/30/2009 05:16
invaderkim
WANT!! REALLY WANT!! :3 this looks srsly better than the first games G1 starscream skin :D
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