The policeman carries a standard issue pistol which only has a limited amount of ammunition. A powerful crime syndicate is creating chaos in the cop's home city and he must prove his ability as a police officer by capturing a number of crime bosses, killing as many of their henchmen as possible in the process. The player takes on the role of a rookie cop in this sideways scrolling platform shoot-em-up from Sega. Picking up an 'Extra' symbol awards the player with an additional life, while catching the 'Special' symbol will give the player an extra credit.Į-SWAT Cyber Police - The Ultimate Factor in the Battle Against Crime Collecting the Bonus 'B' symbols will increase the amount of points awarded for collecting bombs with their fuses lit.
If the player manages to grab this, all of the level's monsters are frozen for several seconds and can then be killed by having Bomb Jack fly into them (similar to the 'Powerpill' feature in "Pac-Man"). At least until level eighteen, after which the levels repeat themselves.Ī powerball appears at semi-regular intervals and moves diagonally around the screen. While the five backgrounds themselves are repeated as the player progresses, the platform layouts for each level are completely different. The five different background pictures that feature in the game are : the Sphinx in Egypt, the Akropolis in Greece, Castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, skyscrapers and a cityscape by night. When Bomb Jack gets killed, he drops to the nearest platform, always landing on his head. Bomb Jack is pursued around each level by a variety of constantly spawning, mechanical enemies. Only one bomb at a time has a lit fuse, and collecting twenty or more of these lit bombs on any given level will earn the player a points bonus. Extra point bonuses are awarded for collecting bombs with their fuses lit. The object of the game is to collect all of the bombs on each level, before progressing to the next. The action in Altered Beast veers from being untypically slow-paced and sedate for a game of this nature, but the game's premise and graphical flair helped to seperate it from other rivals of the genre.Ī Superbly playable and addicitive platform game, with gameplay that gives more than a passing nod to Namco's seminal "Pac-Man". At the end of each stage, after the boss fight, the player's special powers are taken from him and he once again reverts to human form. In beast form the player's character is much faster and stronger than in the human form, and also has the ability to throw fireballs at the enemy. Once three orbs have been collected, the transformation is complete. If the player picks up an orb, he will begin his transformation from human into 'Beast'.
Destroying these creatures will result in an orb being dropped. During the levels the warrior will be attacked by a number of flashing animals. The game begins with the player controlling the human form of the resurrected warrior. Zeus raised the warrior from the grave and granted him the power to morph into a powerful, holy beast in order to do battle against the unspeakable horrors of the Underworld.Īltered Beast is a single player sideways scrolling beat-em-up. He chose a brave warrior who died with honour & courage on the battlefield. Her father, the great god Zeus, searched for a brave warrior strong enough to save her. The goddess Athena has been abducted by the Lord of the Underworld.
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