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{{quote|''[[Memetic MutationMondegreen|''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 [[PlayStation 2]] sequel titled ''Project Altered Beast'' (which was released in Japan and Europe, [[No Export for You|but not in America]]). The main gimmick is that your character can turn into various humanoid monsters, like werewolves and dragons.
Story-wise, the original game has [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]]' daughter Athena being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Neff and two centurions being [[First-Episode Resurrection|resurrected]] to rescue her.
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In ''Project Altered Beast'' the story follows a man called Luke Custer who is a [[Super Soldier|"Genome-Cyborg"]], [[Bio Augmentation|a human whose DNA and other genetic make-up has been artificially altered]] allowing [[Lego Genetics|micro-chips containing the genetic make-up of other creatures]] to [[Shapeshifting|transform]] him into an [[Our Werebeasts Are Different|anthropomorphic beast]]. After surviving a [[Hellish Copter|helicopter crash]], Luke [[Amnesiac Dissonance|loses his memory]] and sets off to learn about the truth behind his past and the Genome-Cyborgs.
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=== Altered Beast uses the following tropes: ===
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The NES version adds a werelion, wereshark, and werebird, and the GBA game adds power-ups and beasts.
* [[Animorphism]]
** Technically, levels 4 and 5 are also underground. The centurions are traveling to the ''underworld'', after all.
* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: The orbs that pop out of the blue wolves when you kill them.
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== The [[PlayStation 2]] game ''(Project) Altered Beast'' has examples of these tropes: ==
* [[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]].
* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: The Balrog.
* [[Body Horror]]: The transformation cutscenes. They're all quite detailed and [[Painful Transformation|painful looking]].
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: The Weretiger form. Unlocked after obtainning every single Enemy, Beast, Boss and Unique data...which leaves nothing else to do.
* [[Cannibalism Superpower]]: {{spoiler|Anastasia}}.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]
* [[Giant Spider]]: Xenesthis.
* [[In Name Only]]: The only relation with the original is the fact that the protagonist becomes beasts, one of which is a werewolf [[Mythology Gag|(with the weretiger and werebear as unlockables)]]. It is in a modern setting, with the transformations being caused by genetic experiments.
* [[Monster Compendium]]: Aside from the [[Flavor Text]], it also includes a small detail of the elemental tolerances and the option of looking at the monster's 3D model from different angles.
* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Anastasia.
* [[Parental Favoritism]]: [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr. Eric Jobs]] quickly forgets about his previous subjects once he starts working on a new one. This gets to the point it becomes the cause of {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Anastasia]]'s Start of Darkness}}.
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: The Leviathan.
* [[Shapeshifter Showdown]]: There are 3 of these', first is a flashback sequence showing a fight between {{spoiler|Luke and Brad}} shown upon getting the Minotaur form, the second is an actual playable fight against {{spoiler|Brad}} and the third is against {{spoiler|Anastasia}}
* [[Super Soldier]]: the "Genome Cyborgs".
* [[The Virus]]: the "Genome Mist".
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