Love them or hate them, movie licensed games are big business, but they are apparently also very hard to make. In an interview with GameObserver, Activision's Luxoflux explains the pitfalls and success strategies of making such titles. They recently developed Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, which was above-average compared to other movie-based games, and previously made Kung Fu Panda and Shrek 2.
Joby Otero (Chief Creative Officer) and Chris Tremmel (Creative Director) of Luxoflux studio explain the process of making such games. There apparently IS some cooperation between the movie and game studios, so much that they even claim their Kung Fu Panda game influenced some parts of development of the actual movie.
With regards to Revenge of the Fallen, Luxoflux explains that Breakaway, the Autobot sniper in the game, "was originally designed for the film" but was dropped from the movie. They also claim that Hasbro is one of the best partners to work with when making movie games. Furthermore, they take the time to comment on Ubisoft's "Media Convergence" strategy, which promises to produce unparalleled film licensed games.
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Activision has shared news about two new Transformers bundles being released just in time for the Christmas holidays. Under license from Hasbro: Transformers: Ultimate Battle Edition and Transformers: Ultimate Autobots Edition will be made available this winter for Wii and Nintendo DS respectively.
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The PS2 version I liked and War for Cybertron was a great title to play aswell I can't wait for Fall of Cybertron to come out.
I used to have a transformers game on my c64 back in the day. Loved that game. Never could get anywhere in this game though. Still played the hell out of it.
Poor Ocean, they always tried so hard and never got their $hlt together...much like alot of companies are doing today....still good stuff tho
Transformers Armada and WFC are by far the best Transformer games. I urge anyone who hasn't yet played them to do so asap.
