Fun fact: Since many fans were "annoyed by the Michael Bay-inspired bug-like versions" (which were nicknamed "Bayformers") of the Autobots and Decepticons, the design team gave a more "modern" feel to the style, hoping to evoke the feel of Generation I cartoons. Preview On nearly every wall hangs a giant poster of stunning Transformers-themed conceptual artwork. There are a lot of walls in High Moon Studio's warehouse-filled offices. The incredible amount of conceptual work the developer has done for its next game has to be some sort of world record. In one corner, a programmer is adding a few lines of code to the game, while at the same time watching VHS tapes of the original. 1980s Transformers cartoon. Each cubicle is filled to the brim with toys, memorabilia, accessories and posters relating to the 25-year-old franchise. The original Hasbro toy line centered on the war between two factions of transforming robots has grown, over the course of two and a half decades, to include cartoons, films, comics, video games and more. Unfortunately, the games generally sucked. But nothing more! Cybertron Revealed Hasbro gave High Moon free reign, allowing the developer to get creative with a property that its employees love. One aspect of the Transformers' history that has remained mostly intact is their original homeworld of Cybertron, so High Moon used that as its central premise: war between two factions on Cybertron, before events bring the battle to Earth . convention, what the studio did was create a game first, then apply the license. Usually, developers who are tasked with making a game for a license tend to work from the top down, trying to fit a game into the license's paradigms. The...... middle of card...... Decepticons from the resurrection of Unicron (the great planet-eating Transformer from the Generation I movie). Cybertron, was pretty much its own thing and its own story, and ended up being mostly irrelevant.2002-2006: Transformers: WarriorsGeneration 1, Beast Wars, and Beast Machines all combined into one comical, expensive toyline. 2007-present: Michael BayBig robots punch each other while Shia LeBouf tries to take action. You've seen the movies (Transformers & Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen). They are really cool and there are some comics associated with them. 2007-2009: Transformers: AnimatedCartoon Network released this weird hyper-anime cartoon, where the Autobots play at being superheroes, fighting evil humans. 2010-Present: The FutureHasbro will be releasing a toy line based on the Transformers: War for Cybertron game, and it will be cute.