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How To Unlock Starscream’s Crown In Fall of Cybertron

One of the coolest little secrets in the new Transformers games will make you feel like a king, especially if you love the 80s cartoon.

Anyone currently playing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron should be able to tell by now just how much the developers at High Moon Studios love the fiction they’re exploring. The game is filled with nods to the history of the Transformers storyline, especially the foundational cartoon from the 1980s. 

One of the coolest secrets lies hidden away on the level called Starscream’s Betrayal. It’s a secret that’s hard to find if you don’t know where to look, but easy with some simple directions. Follow these six easy steps to reclaim Starscream’s former glory. 

Play the opening section of the level as Starscream until you blow up the wall and have a brief fight. 

Stand in the doorway/wall opening you created, and look straight ahead to the large central tower ahead. 

Transform into your jet form and fly towards the central tower, but veer left to head toward the furthest left objective marker. Continue flying towards the objective until you’re hanging directly over the building that contains the objective marker. 

Turn slightly to the right, until you see the view pictured above. Note the distant tower with the small outcropping directly above the aiming reticle. That’s your target.

Fly to the outcropping and turn around to see the opening into a small chamber. 

Enter the chamber, and pick up the crown to start a brief cinematic pan of Starscream as he revels in his own coolness. 

Congrats! Starscream will keep his crown on for the rest of the level, as a reminder both of his grasp at the Decepticon leadership earlier in the game, as well as an amusing callback to the memorable coronation scene from Transformers: The Movie. 

Have you found any other cool secrets in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron? Share your finds in the comments below. 

If you're still on the fence about whether or not to try the game, read our full review of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron.

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Comments
  • I wish that more games had achievements for doing things like this. Also, I wish that the crown stayed with Starscream for the rest of the game. It just feels like a lot of work for little payoff.
  • In Cliffjumper's level there's a secret room with a lever that when you pull it it transforms into a little robot who then tapdances for you.
  • Cool. I have to pick up the game still.
  • awesome !

  • I have seen the lever thingy too and then a wall blows up and you get alot of money

  • Anyone see the dancing lever robot?

  • No one loves Transformers more than me. This might sound strange, but I owe part of how well my life has turned out to Transformers. With that said, I am sick of hearing you guys blab about this new game. You guys have been amping it up for months, then you reviewed it higher than most places, and now you're blabbing about it some more. I just feel like you guys are getting something out of this or have some attachment to the company doing the game, due to how overblown your coverage on it has been. Tell me I am wrong. I generally trust you guys, but I am suspect as hell in regards to this one. It just feels like tooooo much...
  • That's cool. I love easter eggs.

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  • Man, this game is legit!!! Sooo dang good!

  • Amazing nod to the series. And I love the new animated series Transformers Prime.

  • This should be a multiplayer unlockable for starscream's head.
  • FoC sure does love it's secrets...

  • When you come across the first teletraan store as optimus go to the door with the autobot symbol on it. once it let's you through go in, then take a left until you come across a big yellow chair. sit in it then optimus will begin watching TV.
  • That's really cool, i really need to play this game.

  • I like that High Moon put this into the game. Now only one question remains - "Where is Galvatron?"
  • I just beat this game.It is sooo good.This is definitely the arkham city of transformer games.

  • Galvatron: Coronation, Starscream? This is bad comedy! Starscream: Megatron...is that you? Galvatron: HERE'S A HINT!(Galvatron transforms into large gun, shoots Starscream, disintegrating him into ashes. He then transforms back into robot mode, jumps and crushes Starscream's crown.) Will anyone else attempt to fill his shoes? Rumble: What's he say his name was? Galvatron: GALVATRON! One of the best scenes in The Transformers: The Movie!
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