Bot Shots Battle Game!
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The Bot Shots Battle Game! is an online browser-based game released in 2012 to tie in with the Bot Shots toy line. It includes both single and two-person battles involving rock/paper/scissors style game play. Codes included with Bot Shots toys can be used to unlock new game play options and purchase virtual Bot Shots to play with.
In 2013, a Beast Hunters theme was added along with beast mode Bot Shots.
Gameplay
Participation in the game requires creating an account on the Bot Shots website. Usernames consist of two parts of a name followed by a four digit number (e.g. Ultra Magnus 1234 or Freedom Puncher 4321) and each user gets a customizable avatar and the choice of a starting Bot Shot from a small pool.
Logging in allows the user to access the battle modes, Bot Shop and to earn achievements and level up. The in-game currency is measured in energon cubes, which can be earned by battling or by buying Bot Shots toys which include a code to be entered on the site. Users can also join "squads" with other members, giving them bonus energon cubes and allowing them to battle each other.
Battle
There are a number of game play modes:
- Head to Head pits you against another player somewhere on the Internet.
- Single Player allows you to select an arena to battle in.
- Adventure Play provides a single player campaign.
- Quick Battle does just that, plunging you into battle without the tedious need to select a field of battle.
Several of the game types require unlocking by entering a code.
Once a game mode has been selected, the Bot Shot is "launched" via a cinematic before arriving at the arena. The user's selected Bot Shot appears on the left-hand side of the arena and can be controlled to move left and right. When the Bot Shot is standing on a colored bar representing either fist, sword or gun, the user presses the space bar to unleash that attack. As with the physical game, fist beats sword, sword beats gun, and gun beats fist, while if both attacks match, the Bot Shot with the highest point value gets the strike. The battle continues until the health of one of the Bot Shots reaches zero.
Completing a fight, win or lose, nets the user experience points which allow them to level up, and energon cubes.
Adventure play
"Adventure Play" consists of campaign style missions, providing a small amount of story and a map of an area so that you can select Bot Shots to battle.
- Cybertropolis — Acid Storm and his gang have been terrorizing the Cybertronian capital of Cybertropolis, and it's up to YOU to defeat him.
- Kaon Gladitorial[sic] Pits — Are you brave enough to enter the Kaon Gladiatorial Pits and face some of the most dangerous opponents?
Training games
Three training games give the user the opportunity to add bonus points to their Bot Shots' attributes.
- Sword training game — canisters resembling geometric are tossed onto the screen and the user must touch them with the mouse until the time runs out. Allowing a canister to fall off the bottom of the screen or "slashing" an explosive fuel canister both count as misses, and after four misses, the game is over. Slashing an energon cube will deduct a miss from the current total. As the game goes up in levels, progressively more canisters appear onscreen at a time.
- Fist training game — the user is presented with a robot divided into sections. The sections flash in sequence, and the user must click on them in sequence to punch. Punching the wrong piece counts as a miss, though punching a falling energon cube will deduct a miss. The sequences get progressively longer as the game goes up in levels.
- Laser training game — point and click to shoot the green falling robots. Missing four of them will end the training session. As with the other games, shooting a falling energon cube will deduct a miss from the total.
Bot Shop
The Bot Shop provides the ability to use energon cubes to purchase more Bot Shots — regular Bot Shots are worth 98,000 energon cubes, while the Super Bots are worth 190,000 energon cubes — as well as power-ups that can be used in battle such as launchers, attacks and medpacks. The Bot Shop also has new body parts for the user's Bot Shot avatar. To purchase a Super Bot, you must enter a code from a Super Bot toy and win a battle in the Super Bot arena in Single Player.
Characters
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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Notes
- The line-up of starting Bot Shots includes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Megatron, Brawl, Starscream, Sentinel Prime, and Nemesis Prime.
- The user's avatar can be upgraded with a number of sets of armor. Three sets, Vectorplate, Reactive Armor, and Shockscale are available for free at the start. Available in the shop are another seven sets: Empire, Alliance, Airstrike, Neoshogun, Centurion, Bunker-Tech, and Razorforce.
- The original battle game play was much different. The user selected matching images from a grid at the bottom of the screen to line up attacks which were then executed in sequence. Applying any sort of strategy to the game play, especially as the opponent's attacks weren't shown in advance, was impossible.
Transformers references
- One of the attacks available for purchase is a "Scraplet Attack".
- Cybertropolis is a city previously featured in Beast Machines.
- Locations on Cybertron where single player battles can take place include:
- Tank: Sea of Rust, Galactic Spacebridge
- Jet: Crystal City, Six Lasers Over Cybertron
- Truck: Hydrax Plateau, Kaon Battle Zone.
- Car: Axiom Nexus, Chamber of Battle
- Super Bot arena: Sonic Canyon
