Meanwhile, Ratchet can repair an adjacent Autobot, so long as you have one Energon cube per ten percent repaired to find Energon, capture pylons and power stations strewn around each map.Īlthough the boards are in 2-D, battles play out in glorious 3-D.
Optimus Prime, for instance, boosts morale on nearby friends and gives them a ten percent attack and defense boost. You can also protect the little guys by placing stronger characters next to them or behind cover. Instead, you'll want to let your weaker heroes fill in a support role while the heavy hitters (leader Optimus Prime, Metroplex, Bumblebee) do the dirty work. You'll need to keep in mind who's the best Autobot for each situation, since putting someone like Ratchet against Starscream would be suicide. From there, you end your turn and wait for the enemy's next move, whether it involves retreating, advancing to your location or attacking.Įach Transformer has a health meter and possesses different strengths/weaknesses, depending on Attack, Defense and Speed. You tap the desired Autobot and then press the grid you want it to move to transforming into their vehicle form lets you cover more ground, but prevents you from fighting. Glu divided each stage into a series of grids, and characters can only move a certain number of grids per turn. This is a turn-based strategy game where you maneuver Autobots around the playfield and then turn the enemy to scrap metal. If you played Nintendo's Advance Wars series, you'll pick up G1 Awakening in minutes. Unfortunately, video games based on these excellent characters have blown major Energon cubes, but thanks to Glu Mobile, these robots in disguise have the game they deserve with Transformers: G1 Awakening, available on the iPhone. We begged our parents for as many as possible and then waged war in our rooms, pitting the good natured Autobots against the power hungry Decepticons. Here you had hundreds of robots from a sweet cartoon series that morph into cars, fighter jets, tape recorders and even handguns. Toys from the 1980s were big, made of metal, dangerous in the wrong hands and totally awesome.