The Transformers' war continues in an older time, through a new generation. On pliocenic Earth, the heroic Maximals and the evil Predacons battle for survival against each other and against a violent planet.

Two spaceships, one manned by benevolent Maximals, the other by evil Predacons, crash-land on a pre-humanoid planet while en route to Earth. Their crews assume indigenous animal forms to protect themselves from an overabundance of natural energy, transforming into robots to do battle. Thus, the Beast Wars have begun...—Aaron Teitlebaum <[email protected]>

Centuries after the Cybertronian Wars, a small rebel group of criminal Predacons pursuing a group of heroic Maximal explorers crash-land on a primitive world. They assume native animal forms to protect themselves from the planet's rife amounts of energy, transforming into robots to do battle. As the Maximals fight to stop the Predacons from conquering the galaxy with this strange world's power and seek a way home, they are discovering the majesty of its wilderness and the threat posed by its mysterious alien caretakers.—Tom Nguyen <[email protected]>