In the original arcade game, the end credits are interspersed with images of actors in costumes for the different characters and monsters of the game, implying the whole game was a film production.
#Altered beast series
To become able to withstand the perils, the warrior gets the ability to collect three spirit balls on each level, the last of which transforms him into a human/beast hybrid of formidable power.Īfter a series of battles in a journey that ends in Dis, the centurion finally defeats Neff and rescues Athena. The centurion is ordered by Zeus to save his daughter Athena from a Demon God called Neff in the Underworld. After becoming the beast, the character can face the end-level boss, which upon defeat causes Neff to appear and remove the transformation orbs.Ī Roman centurion who had died in battle is resurrected from the dead by Zeus. Each beast has its own abilities, such as the dragon's flight and lightning, and the bear's petrification. Three orbs turn the centurion into a beast, which in the original version were a werewolf, a thunder weredragon, a werebear, a weretiger, and the more powerful golden werewolf (other beasts can be seen in the Japanese Famicom version). One of the enemies, a white two-headed wolf (blue in the Mega Drive version, and a blue ox in the DOS version) upon defeat releases a Spirit Ball, a power-up orb which increase the strength and size of the player character. Each player controls a centurion, fighting undead creatures and monsters in a setting resembling Ancient Greece, with originally five levels, in a graveyard, the Underworld, a cavern, Neff's palace and base at the city of Dis.
The primary designer was Makoto Uchida, also responsible for the creation of Golden Axe.Īltered Beast is a side scrolling, platform, beat 'em up game.
After its initial arcade release, it was ported to several home video game consoles and home computers, including the Sega Mega Drive, for which it was a pack-in game. The game is set in Ancient Greece, and follows a centurion who is resurrected by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena, and to do so becomes able to turn into beasts such as the werewolf with the use of power-ups. Īltered Beast is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade game developed and manufactured by Sega. Makoto Uchida, Rieko Kodama, Tatsuo Matsuda. This game can be played also in a versions for NES, SMS and DOS. Ivan Julian plays lead guitar on Someone to Pull the Trigger and Life Without You.The following emulators are available for this game: Richard Lloyd plays lead guitar on Knowing People, Ugly Truth Rock, In Too Deep, and Falling. Robert Quine plays lead guitar on Dinosaur Act, Devil With the Green Eyes, Ugly Truth, Time Capsule, Do It Again, Reaching Out, What Do You Know?, and Evergreen.
#Altered beast movie
Track listing Īll songs written by Matthew Sweet with the exception of Track 8, "Intro" excerpts from the movie " Caligula". Intervention also announced a first time on vinyl reissue of Son of Altered Beast. The three albums will also be released on CD/SACD. In 2018, independent vinyl reissue label Intervention Records announced that it would be releasing Artist-Approved 2 LP Expanded Editions of 100% Fun, Altered Beast, and Girlfriend. Initial responses to the record were mixed, with Rolling Stone writing that it had "inspiring moments the problem is finding them." AllMusic agreed that the album is "all over the place", yet noted that "it takes a bit of time for all of it to make sense, but after a few listens, it falls together." Reissue
Originally, Sweet wanted to use the logo of the Japanese delivery company Yamato Transport on the cover, but was denied permission Sweet has described the dinosaur design as a "consolation prize". The cover of the album, produced in five different colored versions (yellow, blue, green, orange and purple), features a dinosaur logo. Sweet told Spin magazine that the title meant "whatever is inside you that someday might explode, and maybe you don't know it's there", which he found similar to the game, in which "you have to find these little power-up things, and when you eat them you become the Altered Beast, this other creature that's really powerful and violent". The title of the album is borrowed from the arcade game Altered Beast. The track "Intro" is a clip from the Malcolm McDowell film Caligula. Some of the album's guest musicians include: drummers Mick Fleetwood, Jody Stephens, and Pete Thomas guitarists Richard Lloyd, Robert Quine, and Ivan Julian keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, and violinist Byron Berline.