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Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)

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'''''Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals''''' is the name of two separate games, one for the Sony Playstation and one for the Nintendo 64. The two games share a primary theme; characters from the second season of the [[Beast Wars]] television series duking it out in one-on-one combat, but the games differ in character selection and bonus features. The title of the Japanese version of the game is トランスフォーマー　ビーストウォーズ　激突！ガンガンバトル (''Transformer Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle'', Transformers Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle).

==Story Summary==
Both games feature an all-out battle between the [[Maximal]]s and [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s. The player's character must fight through all possible enemy forces in order to beat the game. In the Nintendo 64 version, there is a final battle with an upgraded version of [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]], called "[[Megatron X]]". Megatron X is identical to [[Transmetal]] Megatron, except chromed and outfitted with a pair of dragon-like wings. The player must fight Megatron X even if said player is using Megatron as their character.

The games diverge at their conclusions; the Playstation version has a very vague ending for either faction that generally upholds the status quo; the N64 version features individualized text stories for each character, the vast majority of which involve somehow finding The [[Ark]] and fiddling about with the timestream.

==Playable Characters==
'''Playstation version'''<br>
''Maximals''
* [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] (Transmetal)
* [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] (Transmetal)
* [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] (Transmetal)
* [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]

''Predacons''
* Megatron (Transmetal)
* [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]]
* [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] (Transmetal)
* [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]]

''Hidden Characters''
* [[Blackarachnia (BW)|Blackarachnia]] (palette swapped and stretched Tarantulas)
* [[Ravage (BW)|Ravage]] (palette swapped and remeshed Cheetor)
* [[Tigatron (BW)|Tigatron]] (palette swapped Cheetor)
* [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]] (palette swapped Silverbolt)

'''Nintendo 64 version'''<br>
''Maximals''
* Optimus Primal (Transmetal)
* [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] (Transmetal)
* Cheetor (Transmetal)
* Rattrap (Transmetal)

''Predacons''
* Megatron (Transmetal)
* Tarantulas (Transmetal)
* [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] (Transmetal)
* [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] (Transmetal)

''Hidden Characters''
* Blackarachnia (palette swapped and stretched Tarantulas)
* Ravage
* Tigatron
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (palette swapped Waspinator to resemble his pre-Transmetal form, as possessed by Starscream in ''[[Possession]]'')

==Trivia==
* Both versions of the game include a bonus feature where images of various Beast Wars toys can be unlocked.

* The US versions of the game features the voices of [[Gary Chalk]], [[Ian Corlett]], [[David Kaye]], [[Campbell Lane]], [[Scott McNeil]], and [[Alec Willows]].

* The N64 version features several mini-games, mostly involving timed button-mashing.

* On the PlayStation version, Cheetor (and his [[redeco]]s) are the most overpowered and "cheap" of the combatants, with extremely easy combo attacks that are unblockable and cause 100% damage to the enemy.

==N64 Endings==
*Optimus Primal: Primal's leadership skills eventually result in the destruction of the Predacons and the capture of Megatron. The Maximals attach Megatron to the exterior of an Autobot shuttle and fly back to Cybertron. Little do they know that Megatron's arm has gotten free of his bonds. Are the Beast Wars over or are they just beginning?

*Rattrap: Rattrap's resourcefulness eventually results in the complete destruction of Megatron. Back on Cybertron, he can be seen in the local restaurants saying, "We're all gonna di...dine!"

*Megatron: Megatron successfully destroys all of the Maximals. After achieving this, he enters the Autobot Ark and destroys the legendary Optimus Prime, ensuring a definitive victory for the Decepticons. In 2005, the horrible transformer Unicron attacks Cybertron. With the Matrix destroyed with Prime, can anything stop Unicron?

==External Links==
*[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/756a36c7076a7195?dmode=source Beast Wars: Transmetals end-of-game bios]
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The PriÂ¢e of Life!

2008-05-09T13:39:53Z

24.244.192.190: /* Items of note */

[[Image:MarvelUS-70.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What if we don't feel like it?]]
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'''The coming of... Ratchetron! Uh, Mega-Chet? Uh...'''

==Synopsis==
Shock. With the hideous fusion of Megatron and Ratchet having been retrieved from [[subspace]] and deposited before them, the only word which can describe the feelings of the assembled [[Autobot]]s is shock. The unreality of the moment ends when Kup enters the room and, seeing the Megatron side of the creature, takes aim with his laser. His distraction gives Megatron an opening to belt Prime in the face, and Kup then fires on the Decepticon. Before any more damage can be done, though, Nightbeat disarms his fellow Autobot and forces him to take a second look—at Ratchet. As Nightbeat explains the situation, Kup has to question whether Ratchet would even WANT to go on living in his current condition. Before the discussion can heat up from there, "Megatron" rams through the Autobots, leaving them stunned.

As Kup gets up to pursue the creature, Prime picks up Nightbeat's side of the conversation and the two begin to debate the survival of Ratchet versus the danger of Megatron. As ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' security officer, Kup insists the creature is too much of a threat to everyone on-board the longer it remains functional, and yet Optimus cannot chose to throw away his friend's life so wantonly after just getting him back, whatever his condition.

Meanwhile, on [[Hydrus Four]], Grimlock begins his search for the well of [[Nucleon]]. With a local mechanoid as his guide and comic-relief sidekick, Grimlock is forced to endure another round of blatant exposition until, mercifully, the [[Dumb Guide]] is chased off by one of the Hydrusian mechanoids who has apparently been driven mad by the Nucleon. The creature is rotting away, yet somehow still capable of animation, and gives Grimlock a meager fight before it is too damaged to continue struggling.

Back on the ''Ark'', things have gotten worse. The fusion creature has damaged Sureshot and sealed itself in the engine room, creating serious wreckage out of critical systems just as the ''Ark'' is beginning to make planetfall to meet the [[Decepticon]]s for the surrender. Kup lays this all on Prime's head and goes so far as to threaten to invoke the [[Crisis Act]] and relieve him of command; after this incident and Optimus's decision to surrender the Autobots to Scorponok, Kup is sure many of the crew would back him in that action. Turning to look the other Autobots in the eyes, Prime realizes his security officer isn't half wrong. Without another word, he takes the gun offered to him by Kup and bashes his way into the engine room.

The fight is short-lived; despite all its power, the Megatron fusion is in constant agony and totally off-balance. Optimus Prime quickly overwhelms the entity, but as he is staring down the barrel of the gun into its optics, Prime just can't go through with the deed. He's then shocked when the creature (clearly under Ratchet's control at this point) pulls the gun back into line with itself and begs Prime to end its life.

On Hydrus Four, Grimlock is forced to deal with the second guardian of the well the same way he did the first: brutally. Reaching the island where the well of Nucleon sits, he finds the last of the three guardians, who is far more coherent and far less violent than his friends. He tells Grimlock that Nucleon is not the prize he thinks; it revitalizes mechanoids, sure, and truly doesn't affect any two the same way, but it also causes wasting depletion and utter madness. In order to satisfy his doubts, Grimlock exposes himself to the Nucleon first before his fallen Dinobots. He emerges from the well feeling magnificent and prepares to load his comrades into the energy post-haste. The little dying robot can only say, "Time will tell..."

In the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s medi-bay, Optimus Prime receives a prognosis on the patient(s) from Fixit. The good news is, the doctor can save Ratchet's life. The bad news is, he cannot do so without also saving Megatron; the two robots have become so tightly entwined with one another that it would be impossible to do otherwise. Under the hard stares of his fellow Autobots, Optimus tells Fixit to preserve the life of both patients...

==Credits==
'''Script:''' [[Simon Furman]] <br>
'''Art:''' [[Andrew Wildman]]<br>
'''Inks:''' [[Stephen Baskerville]]<br>
'''Colors:''' [[Nelson Yomtov]]<br>
'''Lettering:''' [[Rick Parker]]<br>
*''Originally published:'' September, 1990

===Major characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
* [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (3)
* [[Waverider]] (4)
* [[Kup]] (5)
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (6)
* [[Sureshot]] (8)
* [[Fixit]] (9)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]/[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (1)
* [[Dumb Guide]] (7)
|}

==Errors==
* None yet identified.

==Items of note==
* "Defend the well!" Note the double meaning in that phrase.
* A ''[[Transformers Universe (Marvel Comics)|Transformers Universe]]'' profile for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Powermaster Prime]] is found after the main story.
*several parts of this comic (such as Megatron and Ratchet being fused togeather and the fussions desire for Optimus to shoot it in the head) parody's the 1986 version of The Fly.

==References==
* Nightbeat outlines his theory from last issue again, explaining the events from the end of U.S. #59.
* Prime's announcement that he plans to surrender to the Decepticons also happened last issue.

===Covers===
{{picsneeded|UK covers}}
* '''U.S. cover:''' Ratchet/Megatron fusion by [[Andrew Wildman]]
* '''UK issue 309 cover:''' Ratchet/Megatron fusion by [[Frances Farmer]]
* '''UK issue 310 cover:''' Grimlock tests out the nucleon by [[Stewart Johnson]] and [[Robin Bouttell]]

{{Columnlist|2|
[[Image:MarvelUK-309.jpg|thumb|200px|center|309 cover]]
[[Image:MarvelUK-310.jpg|thumb|200px|center|310 cover]]
}}

===Advertisements===
* None yet identified.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price of Life!}}
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The PriÂ¢e of Life!

2008-05-09T13:36:43Z

24.244.192.190: /* Items of note */

[[Image:MarvelUS-70.jpg|thumb|200px|right|What if we don't feel like it?]]
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'''The coming of... Ratchetron! Uh, Mega-Chet? Uh...'''

==Synopsis==
Shock. With the hideous fusion of Megatron and Ratchet having been retrieved from [[subspace]] and deposited before them, the only word which can describe the feelings of the assembled [[Autobot]]s is shock. The unreality of the moment ends when Kup enters the room and, seeing the Megatron side of the creature, takes aim with his laser. His distraction gives Megatron an opening to belt Prime in the face, and Kup then fires on the Decepticon. Before any more damage can be done, though, Nightbeat disarms his fellow Autobot and forces him to take a second look—at Ratchet. As Nightbeat explains the situation, Kup has to question whether Ratchet would even WANT to go on living in his current condition. Before the discussion can heat up from there, "Megatron" rams through the Autobots, leaving them stunned.

As Kup gets up to pursue the creature, Prime picks up Nightbeat's side of the conversation and the two begin to debate the survival of Ratchet versus the danger of Megatron. As ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' security officer, Kup insists the creature is too much of a threat to everyone on-board the longer it remains functional, and yet Optimus cannot chose to throw away his friend's life so wantonly after just getting him back, whatever his condition.

Meanwhile, on [[Hydrus Four]], Grimlock begins his search for the well of [[Nucleon]]. With a local mechanoid as his guide and comic-relief sidekick, Grimlock is forced to endure another round of blatant exposition until, mercifully, the [[Dumb Guide]] is chased off by one of the Hydrusian mechanoids who has apparently been driven mad by the Nucleon. The creature is rotting away, yet somehow still capable of animation, and gives Grimlock a meager fight before it is too damaged to continue struggling.

Back on the ''Ark'', things have gotten worse. The fusion creature has damaged Sureshot and sealed itself in the engine room, creating serious wreckage out of critical systems just as the ''Ark'' is beginning to make planetfall to meet the [[Decepticon]]s for the surrender. Kup lays this all on Prime's head and goes so far as to threaten to invoke the [[Crisis Act]] and relieve him of command; after this incident and Optimus's decision to surrender the Autobots to Scorponok, Kup is sure many of the crew would back him in that action. Turning to look the other Autobots in the eyes, Prime realizes his security officer isn't half wrong. Without another word, he takes the gun offered to him by Kup and bashes his way into the engine room.

The fight is short-lived; despite all its power, the Megatron fusion is in constant agony and totally off-balance. Optimus Prime quickly overwhelms the entity, but as he is staring down the barrel of the gun into its optics, Prime just can't go through with the deed. He's then shocked when the creature (clearly under Ratchet's control at this point) pulls the gun back into line with itself and begs Prime to end its life.

On Hydrus Four, Grimlock is forced to deal with the second guardian of the well the same way he did the first: brutally. Reaching the island where the well of Nucleon sits, he finds the last of the three guardians, who is far more coherent and far less violent than his friends. He tells Grimlock that Nucleon is not the prize he thinks; it revitalizes mechanoids, sure, and truly doesn't affect any two the same way, but it also causes wasting depletion and utter madness. In order to satisfy his doubts, Grimlock exposes himself to the Nucleon first before his fallen Dinobots. He emerges from the well feeling magnificent and prepares to load his comrades into the energy post-haste. The little dying robot can only say, "Time will tell..."

In the ''Ark''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s medi-bay, Optimus Prime receives a prognosis on the patient(s) from Fixit. The good news is, the doctor can save Ratchet's life. The bad news is, he cannot do so without also saving Megatron; the two robots have become so tightly entwined with one another that it would be impossible to do otherwise. Under the hard stares of his fellow Autobots, Optimus tells Fixit to preserve the life of both patients...

==Credits==
'''Script:''' [[Simon Furman]] <br>
'''Art:''' [[Andrew Wildman]]<br>
'''Inks:''' [[Stephen Baskerville]]<br>
'''Colors:''' [[Nelson Yomtov]]<br>
'''Lettering:''' [[Rick Parker]]<br>
*''Originally published:'' September, 1990

===Major characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:antiquewhite" | Others
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (2)
* [[Nightbeat (G1)|Nightbeat]] (3)
* [[Waverider]] (4)
* [[Kup]] (5)
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] (6)
* [[Sureshot]] (8)
* [[Fixit]] (9)

| style="background:antiquewhite" valign="top" |
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]/[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (1)
* [[Dumb Guide]] (7)
|}

==Errors==
* None yet identified.

==Items of note==
* "Defend the well!" Note the double meaning in that phrase.
* A ''[[Transformers Universe (Marvel Comics)|Transformers Universe]]'' profile for [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Powermaster Prime]] is found after the main story.
*several parts of this comic (such as Megatron and Ratchet being fused togeather and the fussions desire for Optimus to shoot is) parody's the 1986 version of The Fly.

==References==
* Nightbeat outlines his theory from last issue again, explaining the events from the end of U.S. #59.
* Prime's announcement that he plans to surrender to the Decepticons also happened last issue.

===Covers===
{{picsneeded|UK covers}}
* '''U.S. cover:''' Ratchet/Megatron fusion by [[Andrew Wildman]]
* '''UK issue 309 cover:''' Ratchet/Megatron fusion by [[Frances Farmer]]
* '''UK issue 310 cover:''' Grimlock tests out the nucleon by [[Stewart Johnson]] and [[Robin Bouttell]]

{{Columnlist|2|
[[Image:MarvelUK-309.jpg|thumb|200px|center|309 cover]]
[[Image:MarvelUK-310.jpg|thumb|200px|center|310 cover]]
}}

===Advertisements===
* None yet identified.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Price of Life!}}
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