Alter Echo is an adventure developed by Outrage Games, released 19 August 2003 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Alter Echo is
Alter Echo is an adventure game developed by Outrage Games and released in 2003. It was published by THQ. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a world where psychics, known as shapers, can create any object they want with a substance called Plast, the best shaper of all, Paavo, develops a new type of Plast - EchoPlast. The ship of Nevin and his crew is shot down by Paavo and they crashland on his planet. The EchoPlast, having developed a conscience, asks Nevin to stop Paavo from destroying humanity with the EchoPlast's power. The EchoPlast forms a suit for Nevin to help him.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Alter Echo holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Alter Echo launched on 19 August 2003, within three weeks of Tales of Symphonia, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire and EverQuest: Evolution. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tales of Symphonia, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire, EverQuest: Evolution.
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