Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms

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Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms
System(s): Game Boy Advance
Publisher: Sega Europe (Europe), THQ (US)
Developer: 3d6 Games, WOW Entertainment
Distributor: Infogrames Europe (Europe)
Peripherals supported: Game Link Cable
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 2002-11-26 AGB-P-AARE EU 2003 AGB-P-AARP AGB-AARP-EUR ES 2003 AGB-P-AARP AGB-AARP-EUR FR 2003 AGB-P-AARP AGB-AARP-EUR UK 2003 AGB-P-AARP AGB-AARP-EUR

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Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms is a sequel to Altered Beast, developed by 3d6 Games and WOW Entertainment. It was released for the Game Boy Advance in 2002.

The game makes heavy use of prerendered graphics. Gameplay wise it tries to expand the concept of the original into a longer game.

3d6 Games also developed the Game Boy Advance version of The Revenge of Shinobi.

Production credits

• Development by: 3d6 Games Inc.
• www.3d6games.com

• Executive Producer: William Schmitt
• Producer: Chris Novak
• Lead Programming, CTO: Daniel Filner
• Programming: Nick Robertson
• Level Designer: Martin Theyer
• Art Director: Eric DeSantis
• Lead Artists: Erik Asorson, Matt Van Dinter
• Artists: Pete Aponte, Rod Stafford, Todd Widup
• Music and Sound Effects: Slackmates Inc., Rod Abernethy, Dave Adams

THQ, Product Development

• Director of Product Development: Michael Rubinelli
• Executive Producer: Brian Christian
• Producer: Angel Sisson
• Lead Tester: George Erwin
• Testers: Scott Lingle, Michael Lu, Nars Del Rosario, Jim Mills, Annie Sanchez, Michael O'Donnell
• QA Technician: Mario Waibel
• QA Database Administrator: Jason Roberts
• QA Manager: Monica Vallejo
• Director of Quality Assurance: Jeremy S. Barnes
• VP of Marketing: Peter Dille
• Group Marketing Manager: Alison Quirion
• Associate Product Manager: Heather Hall
• Marketing Coordinator: Michael Greene
• Director of Creative Services: Howard Liebeskind
• Senior Creative Service Manager: Kathy Helgason
• Creative Services Manager: Kirk Somdal
• PR Manager: Reilly Brennan
• Associate PR Manager: Erik Reynolds
• Manual Writer: Richard Dal Porto
• Packaging Design: JAM Advertising
• Extra Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Kathy Schoback, Judy Jette Hansen, Uchida Makoto, Wow Entertainment
• Special Thanks: Brian Farrell, Jeff Lapin, Alison Locke, Robert Reilly, Ricardo Fischer, Jack Suzuki, Gordon Madison, Christian Kenney, Paul Rivas, Stacey Mendoza, Petro Piaseckyj, Harold Kim, Derek Smith, Rhonda Evenbly, Tamilsha King

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In-game credits

Magazine articles

Main article: Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average
Publication Score Source

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U 60 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 73 Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U 56

	63
Based on 3 reviews

Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms

Game Boy Advance, US
Cover

Game Boy Advance, EU
Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
✔	CRC32 654f7916 MD5 c7c56aaed390488e4112ef64b51bb2ad SHA-1 4178bc2c89187dce127ab64dac2becf99fed0679	8MB		Cartridge (EU)
✔	CRC32 c4955f69 MD5 dc96748e298935c8e3d49e362cafa0b8 SHA-1 194dc1fff5578dcd8a2a6914647f1b67334f2a8a	8MB		Cartridge (US)

External links

• Nintendo catalogue pages: US (archive)

References

Games in the Altered Beast/Juuouki Series
Altered Beast (home computers) (1988) | Electronic Altered Beast (1990) | Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms (2002) | Altered Beast (2005) | 3D Altered Beast (2013)
Altered Beast related media
	Altered Beast (2017)
	Sega Game Attack Manual Book Juuouki (1989)
Other	List of Altered Beast merchandise