Ready At Dawn unveils zany De-formers arena combat game for GameStop’s GameTrust label

When I heard that Ready At Dawn Studios was ready to talk about a new game, I was expecting a sequel to The Order: 1886, a very serious Victorian-era horror shooting game. It turned out to be something completely different: De-formers.

The title is a third-person smash ’em arena-combat game with frantic gameplay and combat that resembles Super Smash Bros., only with zany characters and beautiful 3D environments. It shows that the maker of blockbuster console titles has learned to be flexible when it comes to fun. In De-formers, you roll around an arena and try to knock as many as seven other opponents off a cliff. It’s an odd game with an equally surprising publisher: GameStop’s new GameTrust label.