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Beast Wars: Transformers for PlayStation 1
Beast Wars: Transformers for PlayStation 1 is a three-dimensional action shooter in which you choose between the Maximals and Predacons. Their battle takes place on a planet full of dangerous Energon radiation. You choose a mission on the map and then a team member with appropriate attributes. In robot form, you use a cannon, missiles and collected special weapons against enemy machines. You can move sideways to keep shooting while dodging incoming fire.
The animal form is important for your survival. In robot form, your resistance to Energon decreases; transforming and resting as an animal helps restore that resistance. You cannot shoot in that form, so find somewhere safe first. Areas include deserts, cities, polluted landscapes and volcanic terrain. A map helps you find routes and enemies. If you lose a team member, a separate flying rescue mission can bring that Transformer back.
You play this PlayStation version alone with a standard digital controller. The shoulder buttons control sideways movement and the camera angle, among other things. There are different difficulty levels, and you can view and change the button layout. After completing a mission, you can manually save your progress to a PlayStation memory card through Save Game between missions. This does not include saving in the middle of combat. Your chosen side and surviving team members form part of your saved progress.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions, unless stated otherwise. This product contains a loose disc for the European market. A box is only included if explicitly stated in the product details. We note any different region in the product details. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
With Beast Wars: Transformers for PlayStation 1, you receive a loose disc. A box and manual are not included unless we explicitly state otherwise in the product details. This is the standard way we supply this copy.
The history of Beast Wars: Transformers
Hasbro Interactive brought Beast Wars: Transformers to PlayStation in 1997. The game used the Maximals and Predacons from the computer-animated television series and its associated Transformers toy line. Here, a robot did not change into a car or aircraft as its usual travel form, but into an animal that offered protection from the environment. This adaptation of the familiar Transformers idea also determined how you had to alternate between shooting and recovering during a mission.
The original credits name the Sony Development Team and designers James Shepherd, Tameem Antoniades and Alan McCarthy. The preserved Japanese PlayStation credits identify the team as the Cambridge Development Team. Hasbro handled production, publishing and local packaging; Takara and Mainframe are named among the collaborators. This is therefore the early three-dimensional action shooter featuring these characters, not the later fighting game Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals, which also appeared on the original PlayStation.
The structure used different zones with exploration missions and confrontations at enemy bases. Both sides received a campaign, allowing you to follow the conflict from the other faction too. Rescue flights added a separate way to retrieve lost team members. The PlayStation release remained a single-player game, even though descriptions of multiplayer exist for the computer version. Direct robot control, transformation and managing resistance to Energon form the core of the design here.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Small Soldiers for PlayStation 1 shares the combination of a toy world, shooting battles and three-dimensional terrain. Archer can also free allies who help in combat. Beast Wars: Transformers lets you choose a team member for a mission and change from robot to animal during the action. This means considering resistance to Energon and safe places to recover. In Small Soldiers, your approach depends more on advancing, firing the blaster and exploring the environment.
Apocalypse for PlayStation 1, like Beast Wars: Transformers, requires movement, aiming and shooting in three-dimensional combat areas. Trey Kincaid collects different weapons and fights his way through factories and other locations. Beast Wars adds a second bodily form that you cannot use as a shooter. This creates quieter moments in which you seek protection from Energon. Apocalypse puts more emphasis on continuous attacks; Beast Wars also makes team member selection and transformation count.
MDK for PlayStation 1 combines an armed main character with three-dimensional areas and unusual equipment. Kurt uses a sniper helmet and a parachute to approach enemies and distances differently. Beast Wars: Transformers provides that variety through robot and animal forms and different team members. Both therefore encourage you to look beyond the standard weapon. In MDK, an equipment function often determines the solution; in Beast Wars, you must also monitor your declining resistance to the environment.
Batman & Robin for PlayStation 1 also gives you several familiar heroes with different attributes and their own tools. You change characters in the Batcave and investigate clues to predict events in Gotham. Beast Wars: Transformers has you choose a team member for a mission and then transform during combat. The similarity is the choice of a recognisable character; the difference lies in detective work and driving versus robot battles, terrain exploration and recovery in animal form.
Tomb Raider for PlayStation 1 shares three-dimensional exploration, shooting and finding routes among dangerous obstacles. Lara uses her movements to traverse ruins and solve puzzles. Beast Wars: Transformers divides its terrain into combat missions with different robot characters. The animal form also changes what you can do along the way and when you need to recover. Where Tomb Raider mainly asks how to reach a passage, Beast Wars also asks which team member and form can best handle the environment.
