Transformers: Reactivation it was officially canceled this week when developer Splash Damage announced that he stops developing the online shooter after years of work and plenty of silence. We have never seen any game from the doomed project, but the first movie, ironically, just started appearing online.
Retroactive switched to Unreal Engine 5 during its development, and this footage appears to have been captured after that transition.
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The video comes with permission DpzLuna on Twitteran account dedicated to sharing news about the game, what little there was, anyway. It is a gameplay clip that is over six minutes long, showing some very basic combat from the perspective of one Transformer.
Transformers: Reactivate was a shooter, after all, so much of the action involves shooting, with a few variations in between. Switching to a car seems to be the main way to get around the map, which seems to be fairly large.
You could also shoot in car mode, and all those animations look great. The shooting seems to have stepped up as well, with thin sound effects and meaty recycling. The combat shown, however, is against vague AI enemies, not Decepticons
From the looks of it, Reactivate seemed to have an open world structure where players could move around freely and choose objectives to tackle. Some of these include fairly standard stuff like clearing a range of enemies.
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Although the pictures clearly came from a building that was under development with a lot of assets missing, there is a guarantee to this. That said, due to several live service accidents in 2024, as crash and shoot Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueand the distribution and later Sony's Concord releaseone has to wonder if the powers that be were looking at Reactivate and didn't believe it could stand a better chance in the current market.
Nevertheless, it is sad to see the work of a studio as talented as Splash Damage go to waste. It always feels like a team that is one game away from a knockout, so it's all the more frustrating to see that potential go unfulfilled.
