Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)
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| This article is about the PlayStation game. For the Nintendo 64 game, see Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64). |
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トランスフォーマー ビーストウォーズメタルス 激突！ガンガンバトル
(Transformers Beast Wars Metals: Gekitotsu! Gan-Gan Battle) "Transformers: Beast Wars Metals: Clash! Intense Battle" | |||||||
| Developers | WAVEDGE, GenAzea | ||||||
| Publishers | Takara (JP) BAM! Entertainment (NA) | ||||||
| Platform | PlayStation | ||||||
| Release date | October 1, 1999 (JP) July 12, 2000 (NA) | ||||||
| Rating | ESRB: T | ||||||
Transformers Beast Wars: Transmetals is a PlayStation video game, released in 1999 in Japan and 2000 in North America. It and its Nintendo 64 counterpart 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 their stories, gameplay styles, character selections, and bonus features.
Synopsis
Transmetals features an all-out battle between the Maximals and Predacons. The player's character must fight through all possible enemy forces in order to beat the game.
Despite the Nintendo 64 version featuring individualized text stories for each character, the PlayStation version has a very vague ending for either faction that generally upholds the status quo.
Characters
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Secret characters
Transmetals includes a handful of secret playable characters, each of which is a palette-swapped and slightly re-meshed variant of an existing character with their own unique voice lines. Each hidden character requires a variation on the same code: Select "VS Battle Mode", highlight "VS Com" or "VS Human", then press X. Continue holding X and immediately hold L1, L2, R1, R2, and one of the four directional pad buttons. Each direction will unlock a different character: Up for Tigatron (based on Cheetor, and the only non-Transmetal), Down for Ravage (also based on Cheetor), Left for Blackarachnia (based on Tarantulas), and Right for Windrazor (based on Silverbolt). These characters only appear in the game's North American release.
Notes
- Rhinox and Waspinator both appear in their Transmetal forms during the animated sequences, even though they retained their original bodies throughout the TV series, while Blackarachnia is shown to have achieved her Transmetal 2 form much earlier. Unlike the Nintendo 64 game, which explains this as being a result of Megatron mucking with time travel, the PlayStation version offers no explanation for these differences.
- Sentinel and the Predacon computer narrate the in-game menus.
- When fighting in the volcano arena, the Ark is visible during the victory screen.
- The credits sequence features several stills from the third season of the show, including images of characters that don't appear in the game itself like Depth Charge and Dinobot II.
- The game includes a bonus feature where images of various Beast Wars toys can be unlocked.
- Cheetor (and his redecos) are the most overpowered and "cheap" of the combatants, with extremely easy combo attacks that are unblockable and cause 100% damage to the enemy.
