Before the release of TransFormers: War for Cybertron, Activision announced some special pre-order only characters. A few stores would hand these characters out and each store would only have one exclusive character to give away per pre-order. For most games this would be a decent situation but for Transformers, is was a scary idea. See when a game is build off a TV show that was based on a toy series, the idea of getting them all isn’t just a novel idea, it’s the norm. To curb the cries of fans Activision has release a Character and Map pack to sooth the savage TransFormers fans but is this enough to calm them down until the next map pack or possible sequel?

There are some games you anticipate and there are other games that you wish you had at least heard about before their release. Singularity is one of those games that you wish had heard about of even listened for before rambling on about some game you no longer play. This makes Singularity a bit of an mystery in the sense that not many people have heard about it but those that have can’t stop talking about it. With some of the most interesting plot twist and a weapon set that rivals all other first person shooters, Singularity is more than just great game it’s this year’s dark horse. 

If you grew up after 1984 you already know the Transformers. Since its original release, every generation has had some iteration of the robots in disguise. Recently kids have been reintroduced to the franchise with two new movies and the new anima styled show, Transformers Animated. However, for older gamers, we still long for the days where Bumblebee could talk and the storylines weren’t crammed into a marathon of explosions. 

The stories of the first Transformers series were dark and always worth watching. Even today if you pick up some of the older episodes you’ll see that the show still holds up. There was so much potential for a decent video game, sad to say the technology just wasn’t available to make a proper game when the show first aired. There were a few attempts at a game over the years, but nothing worth talking about. Now, over 20 years later the time has come for there to be a game that features the original Transformers based on the original storyline. Hopefully it’s worth the wait.

 When it comes to the old west and a visual medium it was movies or nothing. For years video game developers have tried to bring this world to life and produce something close to the epic spaghetti westerns most of us remember. In that time there had been a few steps in the right direction but no game ever stood out as a true competitor to the film representation of the modern day western. After of waiting and hoping for a game that's a little more than a less than average open world title filled with run down towns stuck in a desert, Rockstar games has brought the world the sequel to Red Dead Revolver and changed the way we look at open world games, the west and how to tell a story with Red Dead Redemption.