Franchise file / Hasbro and Takara
Transformers
Robots in disguise, pad in hand
Hasbro and Takara's shape-shifting robots have been a games licence since the mid-1980s, running from 8-bit home computers to High Moon's Cybertron war and PlatinumGames' brawler.
- 1986
- First game
- 2
- Series
- Hasbro and Takara
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
Film tie-ins. Traveller's Tales opened the run with The Game for the first live-action film. Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon followed, each timed to its cinema release.
Start with Transformers: The GameYour next late night
The essentials
Transformers: War for Cybertron
High Moon Studios2010
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
High Moon Studios2012
Transformers: Devastation
PlatinumGames2015
Transformers: The Game
Traveller's Tales2007
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
High Moon Studios2011
Transformers: Earthspark - Expedition
Tessera Studios2023
Transformers: Battlegrounds
Coatsink2020
Beast Wars: Transformers
SCE Cambridge Studio1997
The Transformers
Denton Designs1985
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Savage Entertainment2009
Transformers Prime: The Game
NOW Production2012
Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark
Activision2014
Chapters
Series (2)
Every cartoon, every filmTransformersA loose line of Transformers releases, usually tied to whichever cartoon or film was current, from 1980s Famicom and Commodore 64 games to PlatinumGames' Devastation.Transformers: War for CybertronHigh Moon Studios' Cybertron games, War for Cybertron (2010) and Fall of Cybertron (2012), third-person Transformers shooters on the robots' home world.
A legacy worth revisiting
The war for Cybertron.
High Moon Studios gave the licence its strongest identity by leaving Earth behind. War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron play out the civil war on the robots' home planet, with third-person shooting and transformation built into every fight.
- 2007 to 2011
- Film tie-ins
- 2010 to 2012
- Cybertron
- 2015 to 2023
- Cartoon revival
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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