Summary
Previously leakedTransformers: Reactivategameplay footage has resurfaced following the project’s recent cancelation. Back in 2022, developer Splash Damage announced that it was partnering with Hasbro for a multiplayerTransformersgame titledTransformers: Reactivate. It would have allowed players to take control of their favorite Generation 1 Autobots and Decepticons as the two warring robot factions are forced to join together to stop an alien threat from taking control of Earth.
However, fans have seen very little ofTransformers: Reactivatein the years since its official announcement at The Game Awards 2022, aside from the occasional leak and a small assortment of tie-inTransformersaction figures. Players who were looking forward to the game were already starting to suspect the worst by the timeSplash Damage announced thatTransformers: Reactivatewas canceled. Instead, the developer is shifting its focus toward other projects, and some of the staff behindTransformers: Reactivatemight be let go due to redundancies.
Not too long after the game was officially canceled, previously leaked footage from a 2020 build ofTransformers: Reactivatehas started cropping back up online, giving players a peek at what its gameplay could have looked like. This footage shows Bumblebee shooting and driving his way through a ruined city street, seemingly transforming from his robot form to a buggy-like vehicle mode at will and switching between different weapons. Overall, the gameplaylooks very similar toTransformers: Fall of Cybertron, though instead of Decepticons, Bumblebee is fighting against an unknown alien army called “the Legion” that would have served asReactivate’s main antagonists.
Transformers: Reactivate Gameplay Footage Resurfaces
While there are a few missing textures here and there, theleakedTransformers: Reactivatefootagelooks very polished, and even features some environmental destruction as Bumblebee drives through some trees en route to his mission objective. Viewers can even see an unfinished cutscene at the end of the leaked gameplay clip, though there is no sound. Bumblebee emerges from a portal in front of the remains of New York City, where he radios in with an ally named Devin about the Legion’s attacks.
There are plenty ofotherTransformers: Reactivateleaksout there, many of which date back to 2020, two years before Splash Damage officially announced the project and roughly two more years before the game was scrapped. While gamers will never get to playTransformers: Reactivatefor themselves, they can at least catch a glimpse at what Splash Damage was trying to accomplish with its promising but ultimately ill-fatedTransformersmultiplayer title.
