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Beast Wars: Transformers

In BEAST WARS you travel along the planet's surface and explore many areas, looking to destroy any enemies that cross your path. The innovative auto-targeting system locks on to any enemies in your area and…

5 December 1997

Beast Wars: Transformers is a shooter developed by SCE Cambridge Studio, released 5 December 1997 on PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Beast Wars: Transformers is

Beast Wars: Transformers is a shooter game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and released in 1997. It was published by Hasbro Interactive. It is available on PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

"The Maximals and I have no choice but to stop Megatron and his Predacon minions before they destroy us all! Freedom may be the right of sentient beings, but to protect the greater good, we must vanquish the Galaxy from these evil Predacon creatures! It won't be easy ... but nothing worthwhile ever is!" The everlasting Transformers line has entered into a metamorphosis once again. But this time, battle-ready robots are fused with the likes of insects and animals as their evil and do-good counterparts respectively. As you enter the Beast Wars game, a Maximal ship has chased a Predacon vessel through a time warp – and both have crash landed on a planet much like Earth, in the time that…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Transformers series

Beast Wars: Transformers is the seventh of 50 entries we hold in the Transformers series. It arrived 4 years after Transformers Generation 2. The next entry was Kettou Beast Wars: Beast Senshi Saikyou Ketteisen in 1999.

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What it launched against

Beast Wars: Transformers launched on 5 December 1997, within three weeks of Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing and Time Crisis II.

Released around the same time: Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Diddy Kong Racing, Time Crisis II.

Official trailer

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When did Beast Wars: Transformers come out?
Beast Wars: Transformers was released on 5 December 1997 for PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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