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| Developer | Budge Studios | ||||||
| Platform | Android, iOS | ||||||
| Release date | May 5, 2016 | ||||||
Transformers Rescue Bots: Hero Adventures is a mobile game released by Budge Studios.
Plot
Natural disasters are occurring all over Griffin Rock. The Rescue Bots are tasked with saving as many people as possible, as they try to figure out who's causing them.
Considering Doctor Morocco is on screen as Cody is narrating to explain this, it isn't really much of a secret. He's using a weather machine attached to a buoy to control the weather.
The Rescue Bots save people from wildfires, volcanic eruptions, avalanches and earthquakes.
After the Rescue Bots save many people from several natural disasters, Doctor Morocco appears on the screen at the firehouse, laughing evilly, and an invasion of Morbots begins causing trouble around Griffin Rock.
Bumblebee keeps the Morbots from attacking the civilians, fending them off with lasers. Chase leads the Morbots into a trap. In a bit of a non-sequitur, Optimus Prime runs towards a single Morbot and takes it out. Heatwave sprays the remaining Morbots with water, and Blades carries them into a crater. Boulder then clears a path from a nearby river to flood the crater, defeating the Morbots.
Dr. Morocco retreats in Nemo, plotting his revenge.
Featured Characters
Gameplay
Natural disasters appear on a menu showing a map of Griffin Rock. The player selects a mission, and then chooses from the six available Rescue Bots. The earlier levels require only one, while eventually they require up to four Rescue Bots to be selected.
After this, the player transforms their Rescue Bot of choice by swiping a slider--up for robot mode, down for vehicle mode. This then begins a minigame. The game played depends on the Rescue Bot selected. There's different set dressing for them depending on the natural disaster selected, but they boil down to two kinds of mission per Rescue Bot, one for their vehicle mode and one for their robot mode.
The vehicle minigame for Chase has him drive away from approaching danger, dodging various obstacles in the process. His robot mode game has him finding civilians in a dark room
-blades
-optimus prime
-bumblebee
-heatwave
-boulder
After enough disasters are cleared, the game brings the player back to the map menu. A gauge is filled, and more disasters come to take the cleared one's place.
Notes
- As is common for Budge Studio games, Hero Adventures is free-to-start, but eventually requires money to progress, as the amount of Rescue Bots the player needs to complete a mission outpaces the two freely available, Chase and Blades.
- Bumblebee and Optimus Prime were late additions who weren't in older builds of the game. This results in Optimus Prime and Bumblebee's segments being awkwardly shoved into the ending sequence. Bumblebee's feels somewhat natural, as it is incorporated into the beginning. But for Optimus, the camera in Chase's minigame 'still pans to Heatwave' before his part begins,
- Fire safety tips are worked in occasionally between levels.
NICKTROP RESEARCH
Nicktropolis was a virtual world browser game based on several Nickelodeon properties. It rebranded to The Club (in what year, look it up), before being discontinued altogether.
It announced a Transformers area in November 2008, with Transformers Universe branding (though the initial announcement page showed the logo for a different Transformers Universe). This included multiple rooms and a Transformers minigame. The area released in (???)
Transformers Game
The minigame, referred to vaguely as Transformers Game, or potentially more specifically as TRANSFORMERS TEAMS, took place in the Desert Barren, an abandoned place full of Energon cubes and also some cacti. For some (unexplained, as far as surviving records show) reason, Transformers are unable to collect these cubes themselves, and they need human volunteers to help. Players chose between the Autobots or the Decepticons, collecting as many cubes as they could and laying traps for the opposing side.
Notes
- The announcement page for Transformers Game contained pictures of (id the figs)
- There was some sort of 'Round 2'[1] mentioned in the forum announcements, which apparently took place. As the thread itself went unarchived, it's unknown what this actually means in practice.
References
sources to pull from
https://www.galexgonzalez.com/all/2019/5/10/zf4y1nc08g7mg4fj3vmom88u5334rw portfolio of a guy who did ui for the thing! has a pic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1OvjeoBxY&t=93s in the menu you can see the icon for the transformers area. it isnt gameplay but its there!!
https://web.archive.org/web/20081205014430/http://www.nick.com/nicktropolis/game/index_transformers-game.jhtml#expand ok here's a summary of how it works from the site itself! useful :)
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://www.nick.com/nicktropolis/game/index_transformers-game.jhtml full list of this link by date. shoutout to the random dude who decided to post this to Every Transformers Forum Ever back when it was new
https://web.archive.org/web/20081231054349/http://www.nick.com/mynick/messageboards/viewthread.jhtml?bID=106244&tID=3358015&mID=15697176&offset=0 Official announcement forum thread

