Altered Beast
Altered Beast is a 1988 beat 'em up video game developed by Team Shinobi and published by Sega for arcades. Set in Ancient Greece, the game follows a Roman centurion who is resurrected by the Olympian god Zeus…
Altered Beast is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Team Shinobi, released 14 June 1988 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Android and Arcade.
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 Activision. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Android, Arcade, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, iOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum. It runs on Sega System 16.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Roman centurion who had died in battle is resurrected from the dead by Zeus. The centurion is ordered by Zeus to save his daughter Athena from a Demon God called Neff in the Underworld. To become able to withstand the perils, the warrior gets the ability to absorb spirit balls which transform him into an Altered Beast, a part animal, part human creature of formidable force. Between each level are small animations giving the player glimpses of Athena's peril. He first travels through the graveyard fighting past zombies and winged demons. The centurion becomes a werewolf in order to fight Neff in the form of Aggar. The centurion defeats him, but Neff escapes. The centurion travels through…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Altered Beast series
Altered Beast is the first of 25 entries we hold in the Altered Beast series. The next entry was Altered Beast in 1988. Its critic score of 45 is 19 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 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% 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 26 points below the year average. Players rate it 54, 9 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
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