Transformers: Reactivate Gameplay Footage Leaks After Game’s Cancellation

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Summary

  • Leaked Transformers: Reactivate gameplay footage has resurfaced after the game’s recent cancelation.
  • The co-op game was first announced by Splash Damage in 2022.

Previously hidden gameplay footage for the canceled Transformers: Reactivate game has re-emerged, following the project’s recent termination. Back in 2022, developer Splash Damage announced they were teaming up with Hasbro to create a multiplayer Transformers game called Transformers: Reactivate. This game would have given players the chance to command their preferred Generation 1 Autobots and Decepticons as both factions of warring robots unite to thwart an extraterrestrial threat from gaining control over Earth.

Since its announcement at The Game Awards 2022, there has been limited visibility of Transformers: Reactivate for fans, with only occasional leaks and a few Transformers action figures as tie-ins. By the time Splash Damage announced the cancellation of Transformers: Reactivate, players who were eagerly awaiting the game had already started to worry. Instead of continuing development on this project, Splash Damage is now focusing its efforts elsewhere and may need to reduce staff due to overlapping roles associated with Transformers: Reactivate.

Following the game’s cancellation, old video clips from a 2020 version of Transformers: Reactivate reappeared online, offering gamers a glimpse into what the gameplay might have been like. The footage depicts Bumblebee firing and navigating through a devastated city street, transitioning freely between his robot form and a buggy-like vehicle mode, and alternating between various weapons. The gameplay appears quite similar to Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, except that instead of battling the Decepticons, Bumblebee is engaged in combat with an unidentified alien force known as “the Legion”, who would have been Reactivate’s primary antagonists.

Transformers: Reactivate Gameplay Footage Resurfaces

Although some textures are missing in certain areas, the leaked footage of Transformers: Reactivate appears highly polished. In one scene, Bumblebee is shown driving through trees on his way to a mission objective, causing some environmental damage. At the end of the clip, an unfinished cutscene is visible, but there’s no sound. The scene shows Bumblebee exiting a portal in front of the ruins of New York City, where he contacts an ally named Devin to discuss the Legion’s attacks.

There are numerous leaked versions of the game called “Transformers: Reactivate” floating around, some of which go back as far as 2020 – a full two years before Splash Damage made the project public and about another two years before it was cancelled. Although players won’t have the chance to experience Transformers: Reactivate directly, they can still get an idea of what Splash Damage intended for their ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful Transformers multiplayer game by looking at these leaks.

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2025-01-10 18:43