Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark Walkthrough Part 10 "EXTINCTION" - "LOCKED DOWN"
4CHAPTER 13 - 14
DOWNTOWN - ROBOTIC RESEARCH DIVISION
Played By Joseph D.
(PS 4) (XBOX ONE/1) (PS)
The console and Microsoft Windows versions of Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark will be a third-person shooter, much like its predecessors from High Moon Studios Transformers: War for Cybertron, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The game will have a single-player campaign that will let players choose whether they would like to affiliate themselves with the Autobots to protect Earth, or the Decepticons to destroy Earth.[3] Escalation, the online multiplayer mode where four players fend off waves of increasingly tough enemies, returns with the addition of upgradable defenses. The mode will feature over forty playable characters, and will have levels based on both Cybertron and Earth.[4] Escalation mode is absent in the Wii U and 3DS versions of the game.[5] In addition, experience points collected by players in both single and multiplayer will be shared.[3]
The 3DS version of the game is a strategy RPG.[6] Melee combat is turn-based. The player is given three rounds to deplete their opponent's health. If successful, the enemy is removed from the overworld map. The player can choose from seven different attacks, each with their own recharge time after each use.[6] Combat will use 3D rendered character models, while the overworld screen uses 2D sprites, similar to the 3DS game Fire Emblem: Awakening.
The Plot:
The game starts out with a narration by Lockdown as a glowing purple meteor flies by. Then, Drift is ordered by Optimus to get a gun to help take down Lockdown's mercenaries. The Autobots reach the crash site and Optimus sees an ancient Cybertronian relic called "The Dark Spark". The Autobots clear out all the remaining mercenaries, but fail to stop Lockdown from reaching the Dark Spark. Optimus tries to stop Lockdown from taking off with the dark spark, but Lockdown uses his new weapon to slow down the Autobots as he takes off. Then as the credits roll narrations by Optimus and Megatron give more info about the dark spark as it is the antithesis of the Matrix of Leadership,(as being explained the Matrix had to have something opposite to balance it out). Where the Matrix grants wisdom, the dark spark gives the user the power to bend the universe and its inhabitants to their own will. Megatron and Optimus give explanations to their factions current state, as the Autobots are facing their darkest hour, but its the opposite for the Decepticons. Megatron send Soundwave, Starscream, and Shockwave to the Crystal City vault to find the dark spark as it could be the only key to wipe the Autobots from the face of the universe. The Decepticon team encounters heavy resistance from sub-terrainian bugs. Shockwave deviates from the course as he tries to stop these bugs, Shockwave then encounters The Insecticons Hardshell, Kickback, and Sharpshot. As Shockwave defeats all of the Insecticons He gives them the option to serve the Decepticons or face destruction. They choose the former and join the Decepticon faction.