For many of us who grew up watching Transformers cartoons and playing with the action figures, the idea of returning to those digital battlegrounds evokes a nostalgia as powerful as Optimus Prime himself. It's a thrill that Hasbro, the creator of the Transformers franchise, wants to harness.
In a recent interview conducted by Transformers World 2005 at San Diego Comic-Con on July 28, the company expressed a desire to re-release several Transformers video games published by Activision on modern Xbox consoles via Xbox backward compatibility on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S.
There's a lot at stake here. The lineup of Transformers games published by Activision Blizzard includes Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Transformers: Devastation, and many others. These games were more than mere movie tie-ins. War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, developed by High Moon Studios, garnered critical acclaim for their deep third-person shooter gameplay, authentic renditions of the Transformers origin story, and well-executed multiplayer systems.
Sadly, realizing this ambitious dream may prove more challenging than anticipated. Activision's archives, where the games are believed to be stored, resemble more of a digital maze than a library.
