In BEAST WARS you travel along the planet's surface and explore many areas, looking to destroy any enemies that cross your path. The innovative auto-targeting system locks on to any enemies in your area and makes for some straightforward killing. However, don't think it's going to be easy, as you will have to dodge enemy gunfire at the same time. Eventually, your character will use up his Energon supply and you will have to refuel by transforming into Beast mode. While in Beast mode you cannot attack, and your sole purpose is to find power-ups to restore your Energon. BEAST WARS offers 10 different transformers to choose from, each with their own traits. You'll also have the chance to battle in four different environments, each having its own set of enemies. With 24 missions to play and eight bonus missions, you'll have plenty to keep you occupied.
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This game is absurdly bad.
It's a poor third person shooter from before developers figured out how shooters should control on a gamepad. The levels feel big and aimless. They didn't get the voice actors from the show to reprise their roles, so instead everyone sounds like they're voiced by some random person off the street.
Terrible game. Graphics, gameplay and sound. This franchise deserved better.
I spent $15 dollars on this and I still feel robbed
Astonishingly bad, even by the standards of 32-bit licensed shovelware. Has basically nothing to do with the property aside from using the characters, and rather than use the, shall we say 'freedom' from adhering too closely to the show to do something original and good, it's a nightmarishly inept shooter with disastrous controls, levels, combat, and platforming. Every sin of early-3D game design present and accounted for. And graphically, it looks about a half-step up from BUBSY 3D.
The show deserved better.
The show deserved better.
When I was a kid my local mall had a small arcade in it. The guy who ran it had both the N64 and PlayStation available for people to play; you could pay a dollar and play any of the games there for 10 minutes. This was a big deal at the time because of how relatively new those systems were, and it was actually where I got to play both consoles for the first time.
At the time I was - and still am - a huge fan of Beast Wars. One day while at a Wal-Mart, a friend and I both noticed a Beast Wars game had been released recently on the PlayStation. He had no interest but I desperately wanted to play it. However, since I didn't own a PS1, he helped me concoct a scheme to get the owner of the arcade to purchase it instead, and then I could just go and play it there whenever I wanted. I knew this was going to be a tough sell, however, as game prices were exceptionally high here in Canada during that generation, and I wasn't sure if anyone other than myself was even going to bother playing it. I had to come up with something good.
We brought the idea to the owner of the arcade and he was naturally a little hesitant, not being familiar with the game or Beast Wars in general. So I gave him my best interpretation of what this game I had never played was like: "Yeah it plays like a cross between Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. So it'll be really popular." Technically, this wasn't entirely inaccurate: it was a third-person game like Super Mario 64, and you did shoot people like in GoldenEye, so I wasn't entirely lying here, but let's be real: I was just bullshitting the guy by name dropping two of the most popular games at the time. And wouldn't you know it, it actually worked!
I returned to the arcade a couple of weeks later and much to my surprise, the owner had bought the game! He wasn't there that day, though, so I went up to the guy who was working there, paid my dollar, scurried over to the PlayStation, sat down, and finally got to play Beast Wars: Transformers. A video game adaptation of my favorite TV series! I couldn't be more excited to experience this.
It was a piece of shit. I don't now if I had ever been more disappointed in a game than I was playing this for the first time. The controls were ass, the environments were a mess and didn't resemble anything from the show, and it was super unclear what you actually needed to do to progress. In those ten minutes I wandered around aimlessly trying to find any sort of fun here, but after the time limit expired, I simply got up and left the arcade, wondering where it all went so wrong.
Some time later I found myself at the arcade again and ran into the owner. He told me that he had bought the game for me and asked when I was going to play it. I told him I already had, which was true, but embellished a little, claiming I had already been here multiple times to play it. I felt bad I made this guy spend all that money on this terrible game that only I was ever going to play. Or, worse, I cursed some other poor, curious soul to experience the same immense disappointment I did.
Beast Wars deserved better.
At the time I was - and still am - a huge fan of Beast Wars. One day while at a Wal-Mart, a friend and I both noticed a Beast Wars game had been released recently on the PlayStation. He had no interest but I desperately wanted to play it. However, since I didn't own a PS1, he helped me concoct a scheme to get the owner of the arcade to purchase it instead, and then I could just go and play it there whenever I wanted. I knew this was going to be a tough sell, however, as game prices were exceptionally high here in Canada during that generation, and I wasn't sure if anyone other than myself was even going to bother playing it. I had to come up with something good.
We brought the idea to the owner of the arcade and he was naturally a little hesitant, not being familiar with the game or Beast Wars in general. So I gave him my best interpretation of what this game I had never played was like: "Yeah it plays like a cross between Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye 007. So it'll be really popular." Technically, this wasn't entirely inaccurate: it was a third-person game like Super Mario 64, and you did shoot people like in GoldenEye, so I wasn't entirely lying here, but let's be real: I was just bullshitting the guy by name dropping two of the most popular games at the time. And wouldn't you know it, it actually worked!
I returned to the arcade a couple of weeks later and much to my surprise, the owner had bought the game! He wasn't there that day, though, so I went up to the guy who was working there, paid my dollar, scurried over to the PlayStation, sat down, and finally got to play Beast Wars: Transformers. A video game adaptation of my favorite TV series! I couldn't be more excited to experience this.
It was a piece of shit. I don't now if I had ever been more disappointed in a game than I was playing this for the first time. The controls were ass, the environments were a mess and didn't resemble anything from the show, and it was super unclear what you actually needed to do to progress. In those ten minutes I wandered around aimlessly trying to find any sort of fun here, but after the time limit expired, I simply got up and left the arcade, wondering where it all went so wrong.
Some time later I found myself at the arcade again and ran into the owner. He told me that he had bought the game for me and asked when I was going to play it. I told him I already had, which was true, but embellished a little, claiming I had already been here multiple times to play it. I felt bad I made this guy spend all that money on this terrible game that only I was ever going to play. Or, worse, I cursed some other poor, curious soul to experience the same immense disappointment I did.
Beast Wars deserved better.