Because it's what we do in these times. Let's look ahead. We're going to officially put the sequel before the prequel. What? Remember, WFC is a prequel to the Transformers landing on Earth, millions of years ago.
With yesterday's
news that Christopher Nolan's next Batman installment will be released in the summer of 2012 - same time frame as Spider-Man reboot and The Avengers - you can only wonder what contribution the Transformers franchise will make to that year.
It's pretty much confirmed that Transformers 3 (give me Dinobots and Unicron of Galvatron) will hit theaters
next year. And you'd have to assume even if the movie franchise were to continue, there's no way Michael Bay can, or would, get it out in 2012. So that leaves the door open for a War For Cybertron sequel as that year's offering to the Transformers mythos. Much in line with how DC kept the Batman franchise from laying dorment and risking irrelevency without a movie, by delivering to us the astonishing Arkham Asylum.
That sequel is already in the works, which I imagine will be out in 2011.
Again, in this day and age, it's not far fetched for sequel rumors to fly even before the release of the initial project, so consider my thought, the beginning of the rumor mill that WFC2 will be out between May and July and 2012.
But wait. What if WFC ends on Earth with The Ark plunged into the volcanic mountain? Uh oh, no sequel, because the traditional continuity could get extremely mangled.
A prediction for the conclusion of WFC, while leaving the door open for a plausible and anticipated sequel...?
No idea.
However, it's science fiction and fantasy, so if the game is half as good as the hype, and it surpasses the amount of copies expected to sell, there will be a sequel. Regardless of how the game concludes. That's what black holes, and time travel are for!
