Activision has today announced yet another store exclusive preorder bonus for Transformers: War for Cybertron, officially bumping the number of exclusive offers up to four. GameStop has Shockwave, Amazon has Demolisher and Best Buy has Jazz. Now K-Mart has jumped in on the shenanigans, not with an exclusive character, but a special comic book.
The comic book is a prequel to the game, which is itself a prequel to the TV show, making the comic a prequel to a prequel to a TV show based around toys that are appropriated from other toys. It's all gone very meta and confusing, don't you think?
Regardless, this preorder business has now been upgraded to "silly" status. I've made my excitement for this game no secret, but nevertheless this is ludicrous. Diving the fanbase alienating consumers who might not know which bonus to go for strikes me as rather disingenuous, not to mention unfair. I'd like to hope that other games won't follow this example, but it would seem this is the new en vogue way of screwing over consumers, and it'll stick around for a while.
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1:00 AM on 06.08.2010 | 
If so, that's terrible.
Yeah. There's only one gametype that all those characters can be used in. Not sure which one it is.
WTF ARE YOU KIDDING ME? At least it's not gameplay-altering/necessary stuff, but ugh. Confusing your consumers when launching a new IP is a really retarded move. High Moon may have my money this time but I'm going to be keeping a keen eye on them for more of shenannigans...
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What a silly thing to say.
I'm getting Shockwave. I don't trust ordering online to get me my games on day one, and Gamestop has the cheapest price in Canada anyway. $64.99 vs $69.99
Besides Shockwave is awesome.
Transformers? A new IP? Ummmmmmm
Just give us a one-time code with the game with which we choose our own, easy, it's not like the retailer gets a lot of profit from the preorders, do they? Even the transformers fans here seem pretty indifferent and are just going for what's convenient, this is bullshit, I'd like a comic too but I'm damn sure not going to k-mart.
ok good night folks, sorry about the rant, I'm just passionate about the bots and am looking forward to the game as well, but seeing them handle it this way is maddening.
Best buy it is..
Stupid.
they will be selling it all to you via dlc eventually
i chose shockwave, but i was happy to see jazz for the hardcore autobot peeps
Umm.. he's in the game.
Speaking of pistols, my favorite Transformer had better damn well turn into one at some point. This is all I ask. Just give me old school Megatron and I'll be happy.
"Speaking of pistols, my favorite Transformer had better damn well turn into one at some point. This is all I ask. Just give me old school Megatron and I'll be happy."
Not gonna happen.. he's a tank.
Here's a list of everyone in the game (I think). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_for_Cybertron#Characters
Not that missing either one would be a dealbreaker or anything. They had me at "giant robots".
I actually do agree that Megatron turning into a gun just one time in the single player mode would be neat, if only because this is supposed to be canon.. so it would be more consistent.