Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (console)

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Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is a video game jointly-created by both Hasbro and Activision, released on June 24, 2014 in Europe and North America, and June 25 in Australia[1]. Developed by Edge of Reality for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U and PC and by WayForward Technologies for the Nintendo 3DS[2], it incorporates elements of both the Transformers film franchise and the War for Cybertron / Fall of Cybertron games. The story will take place before the Ark is launched in the Aligned continuity, while it also occurs simultaneously with the events of Age of Extinction and its aftermath. The 3DS version has over 50 Transformers characters and epic 3D battle sequences, while the console version has over 40 playable characters. [3]

Synopsis

Chapter I: The Dark Spark

Character: Drift

Enter Earth. A strange objects flies through space, completely demolishing a Satellite in orbit. There is a ship nearby. Inside is none other than the legendary Mercenary and former Decepticon, Lockdown. One of his men arrives in the cockpit and asks Lockdown what it was. He replies that it is "the past come calling." Cut to Drift, a former Decepticon turned noble Autobot. He arrives in a burning city to investigate. He notices a large object crash-land nearby. He contacts Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots, and tells him of the strange object.

Chapter II: The Lost Vault

Characters: Soundwave (WFC)/ Shockwave (WFC)

Chapter III: Getaway

Character: Sideswipe (WFC)

Chapter IV: Possession

Character: Sharpshot

Chapter V: Hustle

Character: Swindle (FOC)

Chapter VI: Gates of Kaon

Characters: Swindle (FOC)/ Bruticus (WFC)

Chapter VII: Infiltration

Character: Optimus Prime (WFC)

Chapter VIII: A Desperate Plan

Character: Jetfire (WFC)

Chapter IX: Ascension

Character: Optimus Prime (WFC)

Chapter X: Hunted

Character: Bumblebee (Movie)

Chapter XI: Investigation

Characters: Bumblebee (Movie)/ Drift

Chapter XII: Ambushed

Characters: Drift/ Grimlock (AOE)

Chapter XIII: Extinction

Character: Grimlock (AOE)

Chapter XIII: Locked Down

Character: Optimus Prime (Movie)
Movie Autobots Movie Decepticons Aligned Autobots Aligned Decepticons Other

Quotes

"Soundwave, did Shockwave make a joke back there?
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"Was it intentional?
"AFFIRMATIVE"
"You know Soundwave, you've become quite the conversationalist."
"AFFIRMATIVE"

-Starscream and Soundwave discuss Shockwave's brief moment of humor.


[A failed headshot prompts the Decepticon Titan to turn towards Bee and Drift]
Bumblebee: [Surprised beeps]
Drift: Bee, I have formed a plan: Run!

-Drift, coming up with brilliant impromptu plans.


Swindle: "No sign of the bug [Sharpshot]. Oh well, can't say I'm sad to see him go."
Shockwave: "Are you implying that you two were not forming a long and lasting bond of friendship?"
Swindle: "You can't be serious?"

-Shockwave discusses with Swindle about his slash fic observations of the two.


"The only future to master is one's own. The humans understand this. Yet they also understand that the past is the genesis of all things, and must be afforded proper deference."

-Movie Optimus Prime is willing to segue into a Generation One epilogue...but he's going to be meta about it.

Notes

Continuity notes

  • The Cybertron portion of the game occurs between War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron – the Ark is under construction, Trypticon still lies where he crashed, and we see Shockwave discover the Insecticons for the first time. However, there is one notable inconsistency – see 'Errors' below.
  • The Age of Extinction story, meanwhile, is utterly irreconcilable with the events of the film – the Autobots have an existing alliance with the Dinobots, yet Lockdown is perfectly alive while Stinger serves as one of the Bounty Hunter's henchmen even though he should be serving Galvatron- and dead.
  • Audio logs speak of the Patterners and Galvatron indicating that studies of the Dark Spark took place during the Age of Origins in The Covenant of Primus
  • Starscream sarcastically makes note of how Soundwave is becoming a "conversationalist", likely alluding to the vow of silence he takes and employs during the Prime cartoon.
  • Like his namesake, Drift was once a Decepticon before switching allegiance to join the Autobots, as noted by Lockdown when the former was held captive. Whether this background also applies to the film is unknown, given the above differences in the continuity.

Errors

  • Despite the game's script clearly positioning it before the events of Fall of Cybertron, Megatron is depicted in the new body he acquired only part-way through that game.
  • The live-action film universe Matrix of Leadership uses the model from the Aligned games, rather than the very different Matrix design first seen in Revenge of the Fallen.

Trivia

  • Rise of the Dark Spark marks a PlayStation 4 milestone by being the very first game to support the PlayStation Store pre-loading feature introduced in the console's 1.70 update.[4]
  • As a shout-out, some of the playable characters quote their Generation 1 bios, notably Shockwave chiding Starscream with, "Clarity of thought before rashness of action." and Blast Off telling Swindle, "I destroy Autobots by choice, not command."
  • The game notably features the return of the use of "slag" as a common expletive, having been replaced with "scrap" for the majority of the Aligned continuity thus far.
  • In the first level of the game there's a billboard that reads, "Vote Berger for Mayor", an obvious reference to the Generation 1 cartoon character Shawn Berger, who expressed such mayoral desires in the two-part episode "Megatron's Master Plan".
  • The Crystal Guardians the Decepticons face in chapter 2 are all identical to Zeta Prime.

Foreign names

  • Europe: Transformers: The Dark Spark

References

  1. ↑ http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/05/transformers-rise-of-the-dark-spark-release-date-revealed
  2. ↑ "Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark" announced; 3DS version to be Strategy RPG
  3. ↑ http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/video-games-17/new-rise-of-the-dark-spark-preview-from-game-informer-179722/
  4. ↑ PlayStation Blog: Pre-Order, Pre-Load Upcoming PS4 Games




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