Review: Transformers: War for Cybertron

Fun fact, I'm a kid of the 80's and 90's too. So when I heard that one of my favorite cartoons was getting what appeared to be a decent treatment two conflicting feelings invaded my body: excitement and fear.

It wouldn't be the first time that I would get burned by nostalgia - especially after the two disastrous games that were the previous Transformers' movie-tie-in video game, however, there was hope - this game wasn't tied to anything.

GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony: a Gaymer's perspective.

Whilst gay, bi, or transexual characters are not uncommon in games from Japan (see the wonderful Valkyria Chronicles for a great example), here in the West, it's still a disappointing rarity-with one exception. Dan Houser and his team at Rockstar Games are one of the very few developers in the West to implement mature depictions of gay characters in their games. Whilst the initial release of GTA IV featured one main gay character, the effete, mincing Bernie, and you could a spot a few Chelsea boys around the docks in Algonquin, it's in the second part of it's DLC Episodes from Liberty City that puts the gays [almost] up front and centre.