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{{quote|''[[Memetic Mutation|''WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!'']]''|What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. <ref>[[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!]]</ref>.}}
A [[Beat'Em Up]] by Sega, appearing at the arcades in the late 1980's, and later ported to home consoles like the [[Sega Master System]] and [[Sega Genesis]]. Two pseudo-sequels were made, one for the [[Game Boy Advance]] titled ''Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms'', and a [[
Interestingly enough, the first game of this series is considered by many as a cult-classic game and [[So Okay It's Average|an average game]] at the same time. The reason is because the [[Sega Genesis]] port was extremely similar to the arcade version in gameplay, sounds and even graphics<ref>although hardware limitations prevented the inclusion of the rather impressive (for the time) scaling effects sequences seen on the arcade original</ref>. [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|This doesn't sound awesome nowadays]] (we even have a trope called [[Porting Distillation]]), but don't forget we are talking about the late 80's, ports were either [[Porting Disaster|terrible]], [[In Name Only|different]] or simpler games.
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* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The orbs that pop out of the blue wolves when you kill them.
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== The [[
* [[All Your Powers Combined]]: This is Luke's specialty. He can equip different types of Genome Chips and transform into the beast most suited to deal with the current situation.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The [[Humanoid Alien|U.W.H. (Unidentified Weightless Human)]] twenty-hit combo. On the plus side, it can [[One-Hit Kill|kill any enemy]] except bosses. On the negative side, it requires [[Some Dexterity Required|memorizing a twenty button sequence, good timing]] and it only targets one enemy at time; in a game where monsters love to swarm you. Nonetheless, it's still necessary to defeat one of the [[Metal Slime|rare enemies]].
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