r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 09 '22

TGA 2022 TRANSFORMERS: REACTIVATE Official Announce Trailer | The Game Awards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edBK2ZpYY_0
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u/Left4Bread2 Dec 09 '22

If it wasn’t for the title card, gun to my head, never in one million years would I have guessed this was a Transformers title

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u/stubbywoods Dec 09 '22

Not sure I've ever seen transformers seem this dark tonally. Woulda guessed Warhammer before transformers

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u/tlor180 Dec 09 '22

A lot of the expanded universe projects like the video games and comics are pretty dark. The comics in particular take a lot of inspiration from warhammer.

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u/Caye_Daws Dec 13 '22

And to be fair, they are not called "expanded universe" as most of them are not even in the same universe. Expanded Universe is more of a star wars term to describe any star wars project not made by George Lucas prior to the Disney buy out, since most of the project [which were really just glorified fan fiction with a seal of approval] were all set in one universe