Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms

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Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms
System(s): Game Boy Advance
Publisher: Sega (Europe), THQ (US)
Developer:
Distributor: Infogrames (Europe)
Peripherals supported: Game Link Cable
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Game Boy Advance
US
AGB-P-AARE
ESRB: Teen
Game Boy Advance
EU
AGB-P-AARP
AGB-AARP-EUR
Game Boy Advance
ES
AGB-P-AARP
AGB-AARP-EUR
aDeSe: Todos los Publicos
Game Boy Advance
FR
AGB-P-AARP
AGB-AARP-EUR
SELL: Tous Publics
Game Boy Advance
UK
AGB-P-AARP
AGB-AARP-EUR
ELSPA: 3+ OK

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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
Source:
In-game credits

Magazine articles

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

Physical scans

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Publication Score Source
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Sega Retro Average 
Publication Version Score
Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) NTSC-U
60
[2]
GamePro (US) NTSC-U
73
[3]
Nintendo Power (US) NTSC-U
56
[4]
Game Boy Advance
63
Based on
3 reviews

Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms

Game Boy Advance, US
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Cover
Game Boy Advance, EU
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Cover

Technical information

ROM dump status

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

External links

  • Nintendo catalogue pages: US (archive)

References


Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms

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