A brand recent proper-world AR sport
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Pokémon GO developer Niantic has launched a recent partnership with Hasbro and TOMY Firm that’ll glimpse the initiate of TRANSFORMERS: Heavy Steel, a novel AR sport for mobile.
The game will practice in Pokémon GO’s footsteps by the converse of the categorical-world AR and proper-time 3D mapping tech made that it’s doubtless you’ll per chance per chance per chance reflect of by Niantic’s ‘Lightship’ platform, and has avid gamers joining the Guardian Network – a community of other folks that comprise banded alongside with the Autobots in a battle in opposition to the Decepticons. The click liberate notes that the game “brings Optimus High and Bumblebee to lifestyles,” with flip-basically based mostly battles taking centre stage.
“Transformers is the most practical franchise for AR,” says John Hanke, CEO of Niantic. “Battling and interacting with enormous robots in the categorical world is an very honest correct trip. We are seeking to are living as much as the high expectations of Transformers fans spherical the sphere and bring them a sport now not just like the leisure they’ve performed earlier than.”
The game’s deliberate to initiate globally later this year alongside with Nintendo and Niantic’s recently printed Pikmin sport. We’ll leave you with TRANSFORMERS: Heavy Steel’s first screenshot:
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