Altered Beast
The Sega Genesis/Mega Drive has different enemy layouts and input mechanics from the original arcade version.
Altered Beast is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Team Shinobi, released 29 October 1988 on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and Sega Mega Drive/Genesis.
What Altered Beast is
Altered Beast is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Team Shinobi and released in 1988. It was published by Sega Corporation. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Tapwave Zodiac.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A side-scrolling beat em up steeped in the myths of Ancient Greece, Altered Beast opens with an act of divine outrage. Neff, the demonic ruler of the underworld, has abducted the goddess Athena and dragged her down into his dark realm. Her father, the mighty Olympian god Zeus, is determined to see her freed and searches for a worthy champion to send against the underworld's forces. Admiring the courage of Rome's legendary soldiers, Zeus raises a fallen Roman centurion from the grave, granting the resurrected warrior extraordinary power to carry out the rescue. Now the centurion must battle across five stages teeming with the shambling undead and monstrous creatures of legend, fighting ever…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Altered Beast series
Altered Beast is the second of 25 entries we hold in the Altered Beast series. The next entry was Altered Beast in 1989. Its critic score of 50 is 14 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 50 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1988 averaged 71, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
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