Altered Beast

Number of Players

1 (Single Player)

Genre

Release Date

Wii (Wii Shop)

28th Sep 2009, 1,000 points
26th Jun 2009, 900 points
2nd Jun 2009

Also Available On

Series

Controller Support

43
Review Altered Beast (Virtual Console / Virtual Console Arcade)

Welcome to your doom!
There’s no two ways about it: Altered Beast is a terrible game. Even here, in a perfect conversion of the arcade original, it’s so horrendously stodgy and repetitive that it makes you wonder quite why anyone holds it in the slightest bit of regard. For those lucky few amongst you yet to engage in a little beast altering,...
- Fri 26th Jun 2009
- Virtual Console
- Reviews

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Random A Look Back at Altered Beast, The Game and Album

The not-so ugly truth
The world of games and music often tend to cross paths; for most of us they are both hobbies we enjoy. From the earliest days, the two just seemed to go together. Games like Guitar Hero and Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker have tried to mix game and music - to varying levels of success. But, these are examples of the music world...
- Fri 17th Nov 2017
- Altered Beast
- Random
66
Nintendo Download Art, Beasts, Cars, Paddles and Wars (US)

Catchup on the Wii, new games on the DSi.
Yes, it's that time again - time to release a few WiiWare and Virtual Console games Europe has already had for some time! The WiiWare side of things is quite decent, but most people will likely pass on this week's single new VC offering. DSiWare gets a certain anticipated strategy title from Square Enix and...
- Mon 28th Sep 2009
- North American Releases
- DSiWare
- WiiWare
- Virtual Console
- Arcade
53
Nintendo Download Puzzle Bobble, Water Warfare, SimEarth, Altered Beast and More Sudoku (EU)

DSiWare takes a bit of a break to give the spotlight to the Wii releases this week.
A large part of today's update isn't very surprising - Three of the games are published by Hudson Soft and were already announced for release earlier this week. The two unannounced releases are quite nice surprises though! On WiiWare, we've gotten Puzzle Bobble...
- Fri 26th Jun 2009
- European releases
- DSiWare
- WiiWare
- Virtual Console
- Arcade

In this classic arcade game you are a hero raised from the dead by the god Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena. With a scenery inspired by Ancient Greece, you have to fight hordes of undead and demons, with a boss at the end of each level until you meet the god Neff, who holds the girl captive.

The title refers to your shapeshifting abilities. In this platformer, you can collect spirit balls by defeating two-headed wolves, allowing you to mutate into different beasts such as a werewolf, a dragon, a tiger, a bear and others. Each form, tied to a level, comes with special abilities such as flight and powerful attacks, easily superseding the basic set of punches and kicks in your human form.

The game can be played in singleplayer mode, or in same-screen multiplayer co-op mode.

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LinkFanatic
Fri 26th Jun 2009

The arcade version of this is a lot better than the Genesis one...will probably download this one.

2
Corbs
Fri 26th Jun 2009

I loved this arcade game back in the day, but I never realized it was so repetitive. I still like to give my arcade board a go from time to time, but it hasn't aged as well as I'd like.

3
LinkFanatic
Fri 26th Jun 2009

900 points?!?! Er, maybe not then

4
blackknight77
Fri 26th Jun 2009

I think I need more Wii Points.

5
JTC-Pingas
Fri 26th Jun 2009

Ummm, why is this 900 points?

6
MrPinguy
Fri 26th Jun 2009

Simple, because Mega Drive is 800.

7
Bass_X0
Fri 26th Jun 2009

why is it 900 points and not 800 points?

8
Austrian
Thu 16th Jul 2009

because it's the ARCADE version for "virtual console arcade" service. and arcade games are 900points(see Space harrier).

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Austrian
Thu 16th Jul 2009

also @ the reviewer
the game is 2 players and not 1 player(as stated above)

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Bass_X0
Sat 25th Jul 2009

Space Harrier is 800 points. The others are 500 points (except Gaplus which is 600 in the U.S). There's no set pricing structure for arcade games but why the need to make this cost more than Space Harrier? Its just an early 16-bit game at heart so it should really have cost 800 points.

11
sashaboo
Tue 11th Aug 2009

Is this version any better than the mega drive version? I downloaded the mega drive version but it seemed to dated and err... a bit crap lol.

12
ICEknight
Sat 26th Sep 2009

It's quite better than the Mega Drive version... But if you already have it, you've already seen all there is to it albeit in a dumbed down form (and also with slower music and game speed, seeing how you live in PAL territory and the Mega Drive version runs at 50Hz instead of 60).

13
Videoman343
Mon 28th Sep 2009

Its good that this is coming to the NA VC but I have this on the Sega Genesis Collection for the PS2 so I wont be downloading this.

14
jhuhn
Mon 28th Sep 2009

All I can say on the price in North America is that it is EXTORTION!

15
carson
Mon 28th Sep 2009

Im still waiting for a good game to come out. I want Kirby Supter star or Super Mario Kart. COME ON NINTENDO

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RurouniTeeter
Mon 28th Sep 2009

Carson. Seriously now?... Kirby All Star?... I think you mean SUPER Star. Secondly, they made it on DS, they probably won't make it for VC anytime soon. Thirdly, Super Mario Kart will come out when it comes out. Just think of this stuff being out of the way.