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* DropTheHammer: Showdown, Front-Line, and Flatline carry battle hammers.
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* AlwaysOverTheShoulder
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* BigBad: Megatron.
* BigGood: Optimus Prime.
* BigGood: Optimus Prime.
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* CombatMedic: Hotwire especially
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Swagger carries a pair.
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* KatanasAreJustBetter: Swagger carries a pair.pair of katanas.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Anomaly, Ripraw, Monsoon, Rampart, and Shellshock carry large battle axes, and Front-Line carries twin hand axes.
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Jagex and Creator/{{Hasbro}} announced that they would begin closure of the game on December 16, 2014, and the servers were shut down for good on January 31, 2015.
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Jagex and Creator/{{Hasbro}} announced that they would begin closure of [[DefunctOnlineVideoGames closed the game on December 16, 2014, and the servers were shut down for good game]] on January 31, 2015.
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i have never heard of this—which characters, who did they belong to, what were they like? And it gets things wrong, too; Hotwire isn't a medic, he's a thief.
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The game was only in open beta for its short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being a female Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" turned into a nastier, ''male'' Decepticon Medic called "Hotwire", and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
Decepticons.
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* OutOfFocus: Main characters from other series simply do not appear in the game and are replaced by original Transformers characters, save for a few NPCs like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, and Brawl.
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* OutOfFocus: Main characters from other series simply do not appear in the game and are replaced by original Transformers characters, save for a few NPCs {{Non Player Character}}s like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, and Brawl.
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* CombatMedicCombatMedic: Hotwire especially
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* PlayByPost: The most popular feature of the game by far seemed to be the Forum's roleplay board. The players complained more about losing that than when the game was binned.
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[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/transformers_universe_442.jpg]]
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being a female Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" turned into a nastier, ''male'' Decepticon Medic called "Hotwire", and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
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The game was only in open beta for it's its short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being a female Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" turned into a nastier, ''male'' Decepticon Medic called "Hotwire", and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
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* AllegedlyFreeGame: While free to play, expensive "Founder's Packs" would have given an unfair advantage, and were pretty much necessary for playing certain characters.
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* AllegedlyFreeGame: While free to play, As the games development went on, more and more of the game was put into expensive "Founder's "Founders Packs" would have given an unfair advantage, and were pretty much necessary until Jagex realised that even they couldn't keep claiming the game was FreeToPlay with a straight face if they planned to charge customers $120 for playing certain characters. a 12 month subscription to the whole game.
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* FreeToPlay: Yeah, right. As the games development went on, more and more of the game was put into the "Founders Packs" until Jagex realised that even they couldn't keep claiming the game was FreeToPlay with a straight face if they planned to charge customers $120 for a 12 month subscription to the whole game.
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* OutOfFocus: Main characters from other series simply do not appear (yet) in the game and are replaced by original Transformers characters, save for a few non-playable characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, and Brawl.
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* OutOfFocus: Main characters from other series simply do not appear (yet) in the game and are replaced by original Transformers characters, save for a few non-playable characters NPCs like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, and Brawl.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being a female Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" turned into a male Decepticon Medic called "Hotwire", only nastier, and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being a female Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" turned into a male nastier, ''male'' Decepticon Medic called "Hotwire", only nastier, and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being the Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" given a more 'con-based personality, and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - blatant examples being the a female Decepticon Medic "Hotwire" given turned into a more 'con-based personality, male Decepticon Medic called "Hotwire", only nastier, and the Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Gearchange in everything but name.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - particuarly blatant examples being a Decepticon Medic named Hotwire and the bulky, powerful, honorable, leaderly Autobot warrior called Monsoon.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain frequent Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - particuarly blatant examples being a the Decepticon Medic named Hotwire "Hotwire" given a more 'con-based personality, and the bulky, powerful, honorable, leaderly Autobot warrior "Monsoon" adapted from a character called Monsoon.
Gearchange in everything but name.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - particuarly blatant examples being a Decepticon Medic named Hotwire and the bulky, powerful and honorable powerful, honorable, leaderly Autobot warrior called Monsoon.
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The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons.
Decepticons. However some of the Original Player Characters created specially for the game so closely resembled certain Role-Play characters made by fans that they were actually offended - particuarly blatant examples being a Decepticon Medic named Hotwire and the bulky, powerful and honorable Autobot warrior called Monsoon.
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''Transformers Universe'' was an online [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMO]]-[[ThirdPersonShooter TPS]], somewhat similar to ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' with its [[JobSystem Class System]], but the graphics were a little lower and the designs took their cue from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. It was a browser-based game similar to ''VideoGame/{{RuneScape}}'' and was made by [[Creator/{{Jagex}} the same company]].
The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons.
Jagex and Creator/{{Hasbro}} announced that they would begin closure of the game on December 16, 2014, and the servers were shut down for good on January 31, 2015.
See the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5T6qEOCPsQ here]].
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!! This game provides examples of:
* AllegedlyFreeGame: While free to play, expensive "Founder's Packs" would have given an unfair advantage, and were pretty much necessary for playing certain characters.
* AlwaysOverTheShoulder
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Several classes - such as [[MightyGlacier Soldiers]], [[GlassCannon Demolishers]], [[TheMedic Medics]], [[JackOfAllStats Hybrids]], [[WhiteMage Mechanists]], [[BlackMage Suppressors]], and [[StoneWall Guardians]].
* AnAxeToGrind: Anomaly, Ripraw, Monsoon, Rampart, and Shellshock carry large battle axes, and Front-Line carries twin hand axes.
* ArmCannon: How the Transformers hold their weapons (with the exception of melee weapons and [[GatlingGood gatling guns]]), they "transform" their arms into them.
* ArtEvolution: Characters returning from ''Prime'' are given slight aesthetic overhauls for the game.
* {{BFG}}: Showdown carries a gigantic "Surge Cannon" slung over his shoulder.
* BigBad: Megatron.
* BigGood: Optimus Prime.
* CastFromHitPoints: Firebreaker's cloaking ability drains his Shield health bar.
* ChainsawGood: Doubletake and Mismatch carry chainsaws.
* CombatMedic
* ContinuityNod:
** The game is set before the events of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', specifically during part of the Autobot/Decepticon conflict on Earth that was mentioned to have occurred three years earlier in that series.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience
* CoolSword: Macro uses one.
* CutShort: Lasted only six months before Jagex and Hasbro pulled the plug.
* DropTheHammer: Showdown, Front-Line, and Flatline carry battle hammers.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Sparkscape carries a "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Flame Vapor Gun]]", and a "Vaccine Vapor Gun", which shoots what is basically healing flames.
* FreeToPlay: Yeah, right. As the games development went on, more and more of the game was put into the "Founders Packs" until Jagex realised that even they couldn't keep claiming the game was FreeToPlay with a straight face if they planned to charge customers $120 for a 12 month subscription to the whole game.
* FriendlyFireproof
* GatlingGood: Monsoon, Showdown, Front-Line, Rampart, Mismatch, and Shellshock carry miniguns. Shellshock has ''two''.
* GrenadeLauncher: Carried by Ripraw, Macro, Monsoon, Astraea, Rampart, and Flatline.
* GunNut: Shellshock; "he ensures burst rates, muzzle velocities, calibers and cartridges all get a little love."
* InvisibilityCloak: Comes in multiple varieties. Macro can place a dome in which Autobots will be invisible (and also cloak himself alone in vehicle mode), Swagger can simply cloak himself, and Firebreaker sacrifices his Shield health to fuel his cloak.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Swagger carries a pair.
* LightningGun: Used by Swagger, Meltdown, and Derail. Triage, Meltdown, and Hotwire have healing ones.
* MechanicalLifeforms
* MythologyGag
* NamedWeapons: Despite most weapons in the game not being unique to a single character (except a few stats like range and damage), each weapon a character has has a unique prefix, such as Meltdown's Boraya Beam Gun VS. Swagger's Ronin Beam Gun.
* OutOfFocus: Main characters from other series simply do not appear (yet) in the game and are replaced by original Transformers characters, save for a few non-playable characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, and Brawl.
* PaletteSwap
* PowerFist: Overclock, Firebreaker, and Drive-By use large boxing glove-like gauntlets.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter / ShortRangeShotgun: Anomaly, Pandemic, and Catapult have shotguns, and Conduit has a ''healing'' shotgun.
* ShoulderCannon: Showdown's {{BFG}}.
* SniperRifle: Catapult and Duststorm carry sniper rifles.
* SplashDamage: For the rocket launchers and grenade launchers, of course!
* TransformingMecha: Should be obvious really.
The game was only in open beta for it's short lifespan, and it has been said that the available content was only about 10% of what was planned. It appeared to feature the exact same story as most Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[CashCowFranchise franchise]] storylines of Autobots vs. Decepticons.
Jagex and Creator/{{Hasbro}} announced that they would begin closure of the game on December 16, 2014, and the servers were shut down for good on January 31, 2015.
See the trailer [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5T6qEOCPsQ here]].
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!! This game provides examples of:
* AllegedlyFreeGame: While free to play, expensive "Founder's Packs" would have given an unfair advantage, and were pretty much necessary for playing certain characters.
* AlwaysOverTheShoulder
* AnAdventurerIsYou: Several classes - such as [[MightyGlacier Soldiers]], [[GlassCannon Demolishers]], [[TheMedic Medics]], [[JackOfAllStats Hybrids]], [[WhiteMage Mechanists]], [[BlackMage Suppressors]], and [[StoneWall Guardians]].
* AnAxeToGrind: Anomaly, Ripraw, Monsoon, Rampart, and Shellshock carry large battle axes, and Front-Line carries twin hand axes.
* ArmCannon: How the Transformers hold their weapons (with the exception of melee weapons and [[GatlingGood gatling guns]]), they "transform" their arms into them.
* ArtEvolution: Characters returning from ''Prime'' are given slight aesthetic overhauls for the game.
* {{BFG}}: Showdown carries a gigantic "Surge Cannon" slung over his shoulder.
* BigBad: Megatron.
* BigGood: Optimus Prime.
* CastFromHitPoints: Firebreaker's cloaking ability drains his Shield health bar.
* ChainsawGood: Doubletake and Mismatch carry chainsaws.
* CombatMedic
* ContinuityNod:
** The game is set before the events of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', specifically during part of the Autobot/Decepticon conflict on Earth that was mentioned to have occurred three years earlier in that series.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience
* CoolSword: Macro uses one.
* CutShort: Lasted only six months before Jagex and Hasbro pulled the plug.
* DropTheHammer: Showdown, Front-Line, and Flatline carry battle hammers.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Sparkscape carries a "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Flame Vapor Gun]]", and a "Vaccine Vapor Gun", which shoots what is basically healing flames.
* FreeToPlay: Yeah, right. As the games development went on, more and more of the game was put into the "Founders Packs" until Jagex realised that even they couldn't keep claiming the game was FreeToPlay with a straight face if they planned to charge customers $120 for a 12 month subscription to the whole game.
* FriendlyFireproof
* GatlingGood: Monsoon, Showdown, Front-Line, Rampart, Mismatch, and Shellshock carry miniguns. Shellshock has ''two''.
* GrenadeLauncher: Carried by Ripraw, Macro, Monsoon, Astraea, Rampart, and Flatline.
* GunNut: Shellshock; "he ensures burst rates, muzzle velocities, calibers and cartridges all get a little love."
* InvisibilityCloak: Comes in multiple varieties. Macro can place a dome in which Autobots will be invisible (and also cloak himself alone in vehicle mode), Swagger can simply cloak himself, and Firebreaker sacrifices his Shield health to fuel his cloak.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Swagger carries a pair.
* LightningGun: Used by Swagger, Meltdown, and Derail. Triage, Meltdown, and Hotwire have healing ones.
* MechanicalLifeforms
* MythologyGag
* NamedWeapons: Despite most weapons in the game not being unique to a single character (except a few stats like range and damage), each weapon a character has has a unique prefix, such as Meltdown's Boraya Beam Gun VS. Swagger's Ronin Beam Gun.
* OutOfFocus: Main characters from other series simply do not appear (yet) in the game and are replaced by original Transformers characters, save for a few non-playable characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, and Brawl.
* PaletteSwap
* PowerFist: Overclock, Firebreaker, and Drive-By use large boxing glove-like gauntlets.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter / ShortRangeShotgun: Anomaly, Pandemic, and Catapult have shotguns, and Conduit has a ''healing'' shotgun.
* ShoulderCannon: Showdown's {{BFG}}.
* SniperRifle: Catapult and Duststorm carry sniper rifles.
* SplashDamage: For the rocket launchers and grenade launchers, of course!
* TransformingMecha: Should be obvious really.
