Trivia / Transformers: War for Cybertron

The Video Game

• Actor Allusion: Near the end of "Death of Hope", Megatron refers to Omega Supreme as an "Obsolete hulk". Both Megatron and Omega are voiced by Fred Tatasciore, who has voiced The Incredible Hulk multiple times.
• Creator Backlash: Corey Burton, who voiced Shockwave (Steve Blum does it in the game proper) in the DLC commercial for the game, said that the gag nature and rushed performance seemed Out of Character and that he felt he barely sounded like Shockwave at all.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Fell into this when Activision's Transformers license expired in 2017.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Sam Riegel as Starscream.
  • Nolan North as Brawl.
  • Patrick Seitz as Silverbolt.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Though he misremembered it as an offer for Transformers (2007), in an interview with Jon Bailey (yes, that one), Victor Caroli was considered to reprise his role from The Transformers as the narrator, but they didn't offer him enough money.
  • Reportedly Frank Welker auditioned to play Megatron, but much like what happened with the live-action films, his classic G1 Megatron voice was ultimately not what High Moon wanted for the character.
• The class system was borrowed from a failed D20 based Transformers Game later published under the name Mechamoprhs.

The toyline

• Defictionalization: The Barricade design seen in the Siege and Earthrise lines comes straight from an old fanart made by comic artist Guido Guidi of a G1 version of the character from the 2007 movie, represented as a redeco of Prowl with Smokescreen's headsculpt.