Transformers (Atlus)
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Transformers (also known under the name Transformers Tatakai) is a Japanese video game for the Sony Playstation 2 based on the Generation 1 Transformers series. It was developed by Winkysoft and published by Atlus on October 30th, 2003. After choosing a side, you can take a squad of three Transformers on action missions, gathering numerous new troops along the way.
Even though all of the dialog in the game is in English with an option to set all of the text in the game to English as well, this game was never released in America. The two most likely reasons are Hasbro's lack of involvement with the title, and that it was seemingly universally panned by critics in Japan.
You know things are messed up when Megatron's voice actor pulls off a better Peter Cullen than the actor who plays Optimus Prime.
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[edit] Gameplay
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Gameplay consists of punching and kicking your way through canyons, hillsides, and roadways where legions of cloned opponents await you. There is very little in the way of creative gameplay and everything gets very repetitive very fast. The environments are very small and closed in, so don't expect to roaming around on any wayward adventure. You're there to duke it out with the enemy and that's it.
[edit] Setting
The game's story is set explicitly in (Japan's version of) the Generation 1 cartoon continuity, referring to the events of several episodes explicitly.
It is (presumably) set in 2003, the year it was released, but also features characters from an alternate future which branched off late in the year 2010. (After "Starscream's Ghost" and "Webworld", but before "The Return of Optimus Prime".)
There are some oddities; several Headmasters are present among the 2003 transformers, and while their existence was not a secret, per se, it is odd to see them this early in the timeline.
[edit] Story
In the year 2010, Shockwave, who had grown disgruntled with Galvatron's abusive leadership, discovers the Zel Quartz on Zel Samine. Realizing that it was a power source even greater than the Heart of Cybertron[1] Shockwave implants the Quartz into himself. He stages a one-robot coup and becomes the leader of the Decepticons.
Till the surging power load fries his systems and he malfunctions, running amok. He destroys much of both the Autobot and Decepticon armies, and eventually destroys Cybertron itself before setting out to raze many innocent planets.
Unable to stop Shockwave in the present, Rodimus Prime allies with the Quintessons to send an elite cadre back in time, before Shockwave discovers the Quartz and to destroy it.
In 2003, both the Autobots and Decepticons detect an explosion caused the arrival of visitors from the future over Zel Samine and send teams to investigate. Both sides lose contact with their teams. The Autobots send another team consisting of Optimus Prime, Wheeljack and Jazz to investigate, but their shuttle crashes and Wheeljack learns that an abnormality in Zel Samine's sun causes electromechanical systems to malfunction and drains them of their power. The Decepticons likewise send Soundwave and Starscream (with Megatron arriving later by Space Bridge, a very bumpy ride).
The Space Bridge malfunctions, causing significant damage to the Decepticon ship. The Decepticons lure the Autobots away from their own shuttle in order to steal their supply of energon and use it to repair their own shuttle. Afterwards, both sides skirmish over a series of local power sources including the wind-power facility on Mount Jaad, the Ranpas Geothermal Plant, and the Mongan Hydroelectric Power Station. Along the way, both sides encounter members of their missing reconnaissance teams.
Both sides also encounter their counterparts from the future: the Autobots Rodimus Prime, Kup, and Arcee; and the Decepticons Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge. Galvatron reveals his identity to Megatron, but lies to him about the Zel Quartz, claiming he rules the universe in the future and it is part of an Autobot doomsday weapon that must be destroyed.
Pursuing stories of items that may be the Zel Quartz, both sides clash over the Gem of Mystery at the Lazalt Ruins, a superhard mineral in a drill bit at Karzite Mine, and a giant crystal formation at the Atalstan gem mine. None of those leads pay off, but the planet's central archive includes reference to a "Zel Stone" which is part of the ELTA power transmission array, matching descriptions of the Zel Quartz exactly.
Both sides stage a climactic confrontation at ELTA (which is either destroyed of kept intact depending on the winner) to capture the Quartz. After the battle is done, Starscream, who had overheard Galvatron and Cyclonus discussing the Quartz's true nature, rushes in to steal the Quartz for himself, jetting off into space with it.
Unbeknownst to Starscream, the physical structure of the quartz required the atmospheric and electromagnetic properties of Zel Samine to maintain its integrity. Because he fled into space rather than installing the Quartz on the planet as Shockwave had (and thus protecting it), the Quartz immediately degraded and became powerless. Outside of the atmosphere, exposed to the effects of Zel Samine's star without the Quartz's power to affect him, Starscream drifts powerless, left to contemplate his mistakes.
Their own timeline averted, the future Autobots and Decepticons vanish into sparkles of light, and Optimus Prime and Megatron are left to contemplate what they've learned from the experience.
[edit] Characters
Below is a list of some of the characters that appear in the game:
[edit] Playable Autobots
[edit] Playable Decepticons
[edit] Non-player characters
[edit] Autobots
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[edit] External links
- Transformers game page at Atlus.co.jp
- Gameplay videos on YouTube
- Video game site IGN did a humorous comparison between the Atlus-developed Generation 1 game and the later Melbourne House-developed Armada game as a "battle between Japan and Australia".
- GameFAQs' overview of the game
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