Game:

Transmuter (1987)

Category:

Review

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INTRODUCTION (From the manual):
Far, far into the future the sun - heart of the solar system - grew old and bloated into an unsustaining red giant. Man had no choice but to burrow underground, using the heat from the planet's core to survive. Generation after generation burrowed deeper and deeper into the planet leaving level after level of deadly machines guarding the retrating human.

Finally a ship was created from the ores abundant in the mantle of the earth and the last descendants of man were able to leave the dying planet and travel to far off worlds. Only the fighting machines remained, endlessly guarding the humans who had long since left.

You are Overlord Tenz, one of the newborn from the first off-world colonies. Having been chosen you must return to the cold still planet to penetrate and eventually destroy all the subterrainian defence systems. You must spring the trap your ancestors left, to save any unwary space-travellers.

The ship you now find yourself in is a one-off 'total aggression' fighting machine. It has a standard photon cannon but something very unstandard lurks at its heart - a Nucleonic TRANSMUTER. This sucks in raw energy from around the ship, through titanium scoops. This is injected into the transmuter which can convert the energy into many pre-programmed forms.

Raw energy is abundant where molecular breakdown is taking place. i.e. The more ships, tanks, - anything you blast, the more raw energy your ship can inhale.

REVIEW:
So, you play as Overlord Tenz flying in your Transmuter, and you have to penetrate or destroy all the subterrainian defence systems, the human race have left on planet Earth. The game is done the easy way with monochrome graphic on the playing field, and with some use of color on the borders. Scrolling and gameplay isn’t the fastest, but the enemy bullets is coming at you very fast, which makes the game okay to play anyway. You also have to travel through some tunnel systems where you have to be very accurate for not touching the walls.

This is a special Kempston Mouse version made by Goodboy, which you can make good use of, to avoid the fast enemy bullets, and to maneuver precisely in the tunnels!

There is no ending for this game and this walkthrough ends when the game loops.

The game was published by Code Masters Ltd in 1987.

Rating:
Original version: 79%
Unofficial Kempston Mouse version: 84%

If you do not have a Kempston Mouse for your Spectrum you can play the game in an emulator that supports Kempston Mouse and play it with your PC mouse.

Original version: https://www.emuparadise.me/ZX_Spectrum_(Z80)_ROMs/Transmuter_(1987)(Codemasters)/83720-download
Unofficial Kempston Mouse version: https://velesoft.speccy.cz/kmouse/kmgames/transmuter-km.zip