

You can even transform into vehicle form, which increases your movement range at the expense of your offensive abilities. If you can position an ally alongside your target, you’ll receive a supporting fire bonus to your attack. This is reflected in the stat crunching that determines the damage you can inflict during each battle. Having double-tapped on a grid square next to your target, then selected the ‘Attack’ command, you enter an impressive cinematic where both robots lay into each other.Įach robot in your posse (which can be summoned and upgraded with Energon from captured power sources) has its strengths – some for fighting (close or ranged), some for healing, and some for reconnaissance.
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This is most apparent in the battle scenes, which pop up when you direct your Autobot into attack range via the main top-down screen. You see, despite being rendered with comic-like black outlines, the models are fully three-dimensional, giving them a greater sense of heft than you might remember. are all rendered in a lovingly hand-drawn style, similar to how you’ll remember them. Transformers G1: Awakening is a turn-based strategy game set in the original Transformers universe. There was a chance this Android version could have felt slightly dated. It’s been six months since we reviewed Transformers G1: Awakening on iPhone, and that was based on a two-year old mobile game. It was charming, yes, but the animation was crude, the music cheesy, and the whole thing very much of its time. Having popped the DVD in, expecting child-like feelings of wonderment to return, the ruthless effects of time and perspective took hold. It was the Transformers movie - the original cartoon one, not the dire Michael Bay blockbuster. A few years ago a friend of mine came up to me excitedly waving a DVD.
