Beast Wars: Transformers - the Complete Second Season (Beasties as it was called in Canada) starts off with a missing Optimus Primal - beloved Maximal leader - thought dead after disappearing far above the Earth's surface.

To confuse matters more, a few chosen Predacons and Maximals are upgraded into TransMetals -- including Predacon leader Megatron -- and two new characters (Fuzors) are thrown into the fray.

As Megatron attempts to rewrite history and destroy his Maximal enemies, fans of the original Transformers series will experience moments of nostalgia as they catch glimpses of the "Generation One" Autobots and Decepticons.

Unfortunately, the repetitive Predacon/Maximal shoot-outs do get a little tedious after a while, but at least there is a nice story to follow once you get past the DVD-enhanced computer graphics and Dolby Digital 5.1 fire-play.