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I’ve seen enough of previous versions of Spike’s Video Game Awards (mainly the first one with Snoop Dogg that was more like a rap concert) and last years, which was all flash and little to no substance. I’d much rather watch X-Play‘s yearly awards and the fan award show. They get to the point and hand out the awards already.
However, the VGAs had some video game trailer premieres…which you watch online later and go back to not wasting time playing. Instead (as my Twitter followers know) I spent my time watching a CDi gaming marathon for the American Cancer Society by website Clan of the Grey Wolf. They raised over $10,000. Way to go guys, and next year get an actual gaming pad. If anything was going to tear me from that to the VGAs it would be a cinematic trailer for the sequel to Transformers: War For Cybertron. I missed it, though, and had to wait until it was online. And by Primus is it amazing!
First off it gets you with the music, a song called “Humbling River” by Maynard James Keenan and his “Puscifer” project. You can catch the full song here and it is a beautiful song. Then you see the picture of Prime carrying a wounded Bumblebee (and you know what a fan I am of his), and you’re kind of hooked in with all the battles that are a slight improvement of what we saw in trailers and openers for the first game, only now we get a Combiner and the stunning appearance of Grimlock. (If this means I can play as Swoop, my favorite Dinobot, I will be a very happy man. Also, please don’t damage Bumblebee’s voice and do still let me play as him in the game.)
The behind the scenes, a rarity for any trailer, is longer than the trailer itself but still quite fascinating.
If your thinking that these guys should work on Transformers: Prime, remember that creating something on this level for TV would be prohibitively expensive and almost impossible to get a weekly show out the door with. However, a direct-to-DVD movie set during the games? Here, have my money. (Provided I have any at the time, mind you.)
Transformers: Fall Of Cybertron is scheduled to release on December 1st, 2012. Maybe I’ll actually be done with the first game by then.
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