Transformers Animated: The Game

Nintendo exclusive

Based on the hit television series, Transformers Animated: The Game delivers an exciting action-adventure experience. As they blast through Decepticon-controlled hoverbots, players must solve challenging team-building puzzles and race through futuristic Detroit roadways, dodging on-coming traffic while seamlessly morphing between robot and vehicle form. Fans take control of all their favorite Autobot characters, including Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Prowl, as they work together to reclaim the lost fragments of the Allspark before the Decepticons intercept it and claim Cybertron as their own.

Released: 21 October 2008
Platforms: Nintendo DS
Genres: Action Platformer Puzzle Racing Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Side view
Themes: Action Science fiction
Age ratings: PEGI 7 ESRB E

About

Transformers Animated: The Game is a 2008 video game for the Nintendo DS handheld based on Transformers: Animated, a television series in the Transformers franchise.

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Gameplay

While this game features three-dimensional characters and environments, it mostly plays on a two-dimensional plane where the characters move from left to right or up and down. Unlike other games based on the Transformers franchise, this one is mainly a puzzle game.

There are 25 levels in total that can be found in the game, and it has two main modes: race mode and mission mode. In race mode, the player can use either Bumblebee, Optimus Prime or Prowl to race against the enemies or transform to robot mode in order to throw projectiles into an enemy to destroy them.

Story

The story is centered on the rogue factory robots and Space Bridge episodes that can be found in the animated series. The first half would have the player fighting the rogue security bots running amok in the Sumdac factories while the second half would have the Autobots follow Megatron through the Space Bridge and into Cybertron. The voice actors in the animated series also lent their voices to the characters in the video game.