Altered Beast
Altered Beast is a 2005 action-adventure beat 'em up video game for the PlayStation 2. The game is a remake of the 1988 arcade game Altered Beast. While the gameplay still involves the main character…
Altered Beast is an adventure developed by Sega Corporation, released 27 January 2005 on PlayStation 2.
What Altered Beast is
Altered Beast is an adventure game developed by Sega Corporation and released in 2005. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story follows a man called Luke Custer who is a "Genome-Cyborg", a human whose DNA and other genetic make-up has been artificially altered by micro-chips containing the genetic make-up of other creatures to transform him into an anthropomorphic beast. After surviving a helicopter crash, Luke loses his memory and sets off to learn about the truth behind his past and the Genome-Cyborgs memory his is back.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Altered Beast series
Altered Beast is the 14th of 25 entries we hold in the Altered Beast series. It arrived 2 years after Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms. The next entry was Sega Genesis Collection in 2006. Its critic score of 40 is 24 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Sega Genesis Classics at 83.
How it was received
Altered Beast holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 27 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Altered Beast launched on 27 January 2005, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening and Star Wars: Republic Commando. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Star Wars: Republic Commando.
Official trailer
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