While first revealed years ago, Transformers: Eternal War has finally been released! The story is that the Autobots and Decepticon have to join forces to fight an endless horde of Chaos copies of themselves that were sent by Unicron. At its core, it is a mobile game where you assemble a squad of five Transformers from both the Decepticons and the Autobots to battle another squad of evil Chaos versions of the iconic G1 characters. The squads use basic attacks until they get enough energy to use a special move. There isn't much interaction in the fights, none if you turn on the auto special moves, and it's pretty much a cake walk for the first few hours. The game leads you along introducing you to its various mechanics and options, as you clear the area around the Ark to create a generic looking base. The Transformers that you acquire will walk around the base similar to how they do so in Transformers Earth Wars.
The game uses a lot of the iconic G1 cartoon soundtrack, which works well for the game but it does get a little jarring when it switches back and forth between G1 cartoon music and modern music. Most of the dialog is voiced, but it was done by people often trying to mimic the original G1 voice actors. While there isn't currently a list of the voice cast as of this review, you can definitely pick out some of the usual voice actors like Jon Bailey.
Combat is mostly limited to the in game Chaos Transformers, but you do have an option to do some PVP fighting.
You get new characters or shards of them from the Space bridge, which requires special currency to use.
Each character has a rarity with Epic being the lowest, Legendary the middle, and Mythic the highest tier. On top of that, each character has a star rating. They start out with zero and every time you collect enough of the character's shards from the Space Bridge, you can ascend them to the next star ranking.
You can also level up each Transformer to make them more powerful. At first you can level up all of them that you can get, but you quickly run out of Shanix to upgrade them and have to just level your squad of five. Eventually, you won't even be able to do that. Fortunately, every character can be reset to get all the upgrade materials back. You can also level up their abilities. There is also some equipment you can find for them and even level up their equipment.
Overall, the game isn't bad, but eventually you are going to hit a wall where you cannot proceed, as the enemies are too difficult. At that point it's going to be rather tempting to buy some packs to upgrade your squad, as you won't even be able to keep them fully upgraded after a few hours of play. The game doesn't cost anything unless you buy from their web store, so if you are a G1 Transformers fan, then you might want to check this out. If you aren't then this game won't win you over.
