

In the Autobot and Decepticon trailers as well as the new tutorials introduced, an additional segment of the plot was revealed: The Decepticons have intercepted and shot down the Autobot spaceship Arclight (which was on its way to Earth to refuel due to the Autobots having stocked up vast amounts of energon on Earth during the war on Cybertron), causing the surviving Autobots crash-land on Earth (mostly the United States) aboard escape pods. Īccording to creative director Alex DeRakoff, the main story involves Optimus Prime going missing, with the other Autobots trying to keep his location a secret from Megatron, who is travelling across the galaxy with his associates to track down Prime. It was announced on Decemthat the game would begin a phased closure immediately, fully closing on January 31, 2015, without ever having left beta testing. Although the game featured several Prime characters in minor roles, new introductions to the Prime mythos such as Prowl and Switchblade took center stage. Players picked from a roster of warriors and went head to head in battles to capture points or to annihilate the other team.

The gameplay was somewhat similar to other multiplayer battle arena games such as Dota 2 or League of Legends however, there were no lanes or creeps, and the game was played from a third person perspective. Gamers could choose to be an Autobot or a Decepticon, obtain different warriors, and pit them against one another in various challenges and battles to gather Relics and Energon. It was to be set in an alternate version of the Prime portion of the Aligned continuity family. The game entered open beta testing on July 4, 2014. In 2014 Jagex announced the change to from MMO to MOTA and closed beta registrations began again. First unveiled at Botcon 2011, closed beta testing began a year later in 2012, with Jagex announcing they had indefinitely paused development of their MMORPG Stellar Dawn to focus on Transformers Universe.


Transformers Universe is a cancelled free to play browser based massively online tactical action game, or MOTA, developed by Jagex.
