Altered Beast (1988) - Video Game Review

Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils

I don't remember all of them, and to be honest with you, I have not bought all of the video game systems that are out there, but one of the things that video game companies have done since pretty much at the very least the, 'NES', is that video game companies have been adding in a game or 2 to the system itself when you buy it as incentive to keep people motivated when they buy their systems...

A couple of examples of this are:

1. The XBox 360 package that I got came with Halo Reach and Fable 3.

2. For the NES, it was (at least for a while anyway,) 'Super Mario Bros.'

Well for the Sega Genesis I heard that at least at one point that Sega was offering, 'Altered Beast' (1988) as part of their package!

A game definitely worth trying!

Initially developed and produced by: Sega and released as an Aracade game, this game told the story of a Greek Centurion who was resurrected by Zeus in an effort so that the centurion could rescue his daughter, 'Athena' from a demon god by the name of, 'Neff', who lives in the, 'Underworld'...

A fun Arcade/Home Console game that is worth playing!

This game was released during the days of the popular, 'side scrolling' fighting games that were still extremely popular, but this one I remember had a little bit of a twist with it... You see, in this game the character is given the ability to become various beasts when you got, 'power-ups'...

Also the basic graphics of the game could be said to be the direct ancestor of the type of graphics in video games that we see today... What I mean by that is the fact that where as older games... Being graphically fun, still had the strongly pixelated look that was the standard for a lot of the video games of the 1980s... In Altered Beast, it was significantly less pixelated, and starting to seriously come together...

Ultimately this game is not hard to figure out, and it is fun, if you have a chance to play it, I would say give it a try, it is well worth it, and you might find that to be the case as well... I know I did!