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The best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 34
Date: April 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game helps with some bacic skills. It is good to because it helps with intellegence and it helps with planning stradigy.

Beast Wars Transmetals a great game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 57 / 66
Date: May 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First of all, the screenshot given for this game is of the old Beast Wars PSX game, which was vastly inferior to this game.

Anyway, I own the Japanese version and it is a very good fighting game. It doesn't have really any complex combos, but still has a variety of attacks and special moves. Similar to Tekken, but you can move around freely in arenas and interact with the backgrounds (throw rocks at opponents or avoid hazards). The game is best played in difficult mode to get the best challenge, but still isn't overly complicated. All the players can transform into both beast and vehicle modes (Fuzors excluded). Several CGI movies are also contained in the game and beautifully rendered. An added bonus to the US version are four secret playable characters! And an even bigger bonus is that the REAL voice actors from the TV show were brought in to do the voices in the game!

Overall, it's a great game for TF fans and even more fun with 2 players. Die-hard fans of the fighting genre may find the gameplay simplistic and blow through it quickly, but it's a great game to combat as your favourite BW characters.

KICK-...!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 39
Date: May 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game really is da bomb! So much better than the original BEAST WARS. The origonal was solw, simple, but this version has new graphics, sounds, players, and so much more. It is slightly more comlicated than the last version, but that's a good thing!

Beast Wars gets transformed into an killer fighter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The first Beast Wars game for the sony playstation left much to be desired, but thanks to Bam! Entertainment and Hasbro, this latest incarnation of the Beast wars transformers game took the series to new heights. Beast Wars: Transmetals is without a doubt the best Transformer game to date. Using the same tried and true fight engine as other popular fighters(think powerstone on DC) this game brings the house down. The Transformers all look very close to their TV counterparts, complete with the orignal voice actors, and so much attention was given to detail in this game that they all even transform exactly the same wheter in beast or robot mode. This game is also highly interactive, from the second you pick up your controller you'll be jumping out of your seat, dodging falling boulders, snow storms, lava pits, energon crystals, quicksand, and as if all that wasnt enough you still have that do-gooder maximal or pesky predacon to deal with. But dont fret, you can also use this to your advantage by picking up various objects like boulders and crystals to get the upper hand in battle. The modes featured in this game are superb! You get your standard arcade mode which has been beautifully woven into a story mode where you can choose to fight as the maximals or the predacons trying to make your way to the enemy base stronghold to either save or conquer the universe. Also a impressive story mode where you can just sit back and watch the the tfs duke it out in TV style with dramatic camera angles, letting you view the action from all sides. Youve also got your Survival MOde, Training mode, and VS mode to challenge a friend or the computer in any stage you choose. This game is also packed with goodies like an extras mode where you can listen to all the voices, music, and sounds from the game, and a very impressive photo gallery of the actual various toys produced for Beast Wars to help you on those buying descisions. Great stuff indeedy! The game also has hidden secrets to unlock like hidden characters and more options to add to the extas the more the game is played. Hands down, a definite must own title for any TF fan. Roll out to your nearest game store now and grab this game.

Fun, but don't expect too much

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There are a lot of good points about this game. It's relatively simple to learn and play, it has a lot of extras, and it looks good. The best feature is probably the presence of the original voice actors doing most of the voices (some seem to have doubled up on roles to fill in for co-workers not present). Their appeal has been milked for all it's worth, from Megatron introducing one of the company logos to different comments from the individual characters in each stage. The CGI videos, while not as technically stunning as the show, feature the lovely body language which makes the characters come alive. There are also four hidden characters with there own sets of phrases. However, in spite of all the extras, there's not much to this game. Beating it on easy mode yeilds the same results as beating it on hard. The Save feature is also rather strange in some places. It's worthwhile if you loved the show, but not a great game in and of itself.

It is a very good game to buy

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: July 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game and I thought it was pretty good but it would be even better if Megatron X the Dragon was on it like on the 64 version.And they could of made better secret characters but still it is a good game to have.

Better than the orignal but still lacks depth

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have both the original Beast Wars game and the new Beats Wars Transmetals and have to say the new game is the better of the two. However, the computer AI is very lax and the lack of true combos limits the fighting system. It is not as complicated as other games like Street Fighter Alpha 3, but it is not as simple as Super Smash Bros. The game is true 3d and i enjoyed hearing Airazor and Terrorsaur again, but it found the bosses easy and the voice overs during transformation irritating. If you like the Beast Wars television series, then the game isn't half bad. But if you are expecting Tekken, you will be dissapointed.

looks good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: July 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I havent played it yet but by the looks of it it looks good.Im writing this review because the first beast wars was a disapointment. It had nothing to do with the show and the voices were bad .im hoping this is better!

Rent this one before buying!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: August 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I purchased Transformers Beast Wars Transmetals based on the great reviews I read from other Amazon reviewers. After playing it, I wondered if they were talking about the same game.

I am a diehard Transformers fan, but the gameplay and lack of characters in this game did not hold my attention for much more than an hour. The fighting engine is probably one of the worst I have ever seen. The camera angles during the fighting sequences sometimes makes it hard to figure out what is going on. The different fighting terrains was a nice touch but it doesnt help the poor gameplay. If you are a fan of the Tekken based fighting games you will be highly disappointed by this title.

As far as 3-D fighters go, you are better off with Tekken 3, MK4, Dead or Alive, Soul Blade or Bloody Roar....these games are much more fun for single or multiple players than Tranformers, Beast Wars, Transmetals.

The license is the only value.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: September 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wish there were a side-scrolling shoot'em up based on the classic Transformers characters. Imagine controlling classic Megatron yourself, then with a press of a button you become a gun held in an ally's hand! Or even a Capcom "Vs."-style fighting game -- Optimus Prime, with one deft super move, transforms into a giant truck and crushes the opponent!

I was interested in seeing the Transformers license used in this game but unfortunately, the playing experience has been shabby. Beast Wars: TransMetals just isn't a well-designed action game. For one thing, it's based on characters that are more fun, probably, as toys than as game characters. So the robots can transform into beasts and vehicles. But they look so bad in their 3D-model form that I hardly care for them. "Optimus Primal"? Transforming into a Gorilla? And this game features way too much voice work, all poorly done. "Primal" doesn't have the kind of compelling voice that, say, the Optimus Prime of the classic Transformers series on TV did. I can't tell one character from another, and it's obvious the script was written to very young kids, featuring a lot of empty bravado that just bogs down the pacing of the game.

The fighting system? No blocking, just a lot of running around and button-mashing, hoping you hit. And switching to a "special screen" every time either player transforms just kills the momentum of the fights.

I love giant-robot games like Armored Core and even Omega Boost. But Beast Wars: TransMetals fails the grade.

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