Alter Echo

by Outrage

Product Features

• Nevin is a young psychic warrior with the power to shape Multiplast, the most valuable substance known. A variant of Multiplast, called Echoplast, has come into existence, and has become intelligent. Nevin is dispatched to retrieve it, but the psychic pirate Paavo will kill him to keep it.
• Use the extraordinary suit Nevin wears to change your shape -- become a fighting machine, an invisible man, even a giant gun
• Use your psychic abilities to freeze time -- stop the action and cue up a series of deadly attacks on helpless enemies
• Fantastic PostFX Camera System adds dynamic feel to the action, with multiple effects, tracking shots and magnifiers
• Face off against a planet full of creatures and Upgrade your moves constantly, as you experience action straight out of a classic sci-fi movie!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009XS67
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 25, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,403 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Alter Echo takes place on Proteus, a planet whose entire surface is covered by an organic substance called Multiplast. ("Plast" for short.) Multiplast is the most important substance in the Universe because rare individuals called Shapers can physically shape it into all sorts of bio-machines.

You play Nevin, a Shaper who works for one of the many Corporations that mine Multiplast. You’re not just any Shaper—you can also Time Dilate, something most Shapers can’t do. (Your ability to merge with the energy fields of Multiplast is so powerful that you can effectively stop time. Useful in combat, obviously.)

Your employers have sent you to Proteus because a Shaper named Paavo has created a new form of Plast and it’s gotten out of control. The new Plast (called Xenoplast) has become self-aware. It knows that humanity plans to exploit it and it doesn’t want to suffer that fate. To make matters worse, it’s figured out a way to retaliate.

The Xenoplast manufactures enemies to fight you much like our bodies produce anti-bodies to fight infection. These opponents take the form of various combat drones, and later in the game, clones of people you know. It’s a long, hard fight ahead of you, and you’ll have to call upon every ounce of skill and courage you’ve got. The last thing you wanted was to have to save humanity, but hey—if you don’t do it, no one else will.

Features:

• Morphing: an advanced real-time morphing system lets Nevin’s PolySuit change between Melee, Gun, and Stealth modes on the fly during combat. Each mode has special abilities:
  • Melee Mode: This is the default mode, used for rapid movement to cut down foes with vicious sword combos
  • Gun Mode: Transforms Nevin into a walking tank; used to annihilate enemies with cannons and grenade launchers
  • Stealth Mode: Allows Nevin to become invisible, climb special "stealth paths," and assassinate solitary foes
• Time Dilation: Nevin’s extraordinary ability to alter time lets him freeze the action. Gameplay transitions to a special Time Dilation display that Nevin uses to cue up "chains" of icons representing special moves and attacks. When time snaps back, he unleashes these moves and lays waste to anything in his path:
  • Time Dilation Battles: When one of Nevin’s opponents also has the ability to Time Dilate, it becomes a contest; Nevin and the enemy both assemble chains of special moves across the same Time Dilation display, trying to block each other, cut each other off--the best chain wins and unleashes an unstoppable flurry of attacks
  • Use Time Dilation to solve puzzles: Nevin uses his ability to "interface" with the environment, opening new paths and changing the landscape; as usual he must assemble a chain of special moves, but now he has to guide the chain around blocking obstacles and through specific target areas
• Buddy Characters: Nevin’s not alone—many times, other characters fight alongside him. They put up a good fight on their own, but they’ll also have special moves Nevin can trigger by executing combos.
• PostFX: Mind-blowing visual effects, camera filters, and screen distortions intensify every moment of the action.
• Unique Adventure: Alter Echo is set on a world whose very surface is alive—and it wants you dead.

Product Description

In Alter Echo you play a unique hero, fighting for control the most powerful substance known to man!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Freeze and Slash, January 31, 2004

By 

coopertex (CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alter Echo (Video Game)

Alter Echo, is a hack and slash game. You control your character in the third-person view. Your character can transform into different creatures. There is the human form; where you fight with your sword and slash at enemies. There is the gun form; where you turn into a robot-like creature with a gun that shoots lasers and launches grenades. And there is a stealth form; it's like a lizard and you have the ability to crawl on certain surfaces and you can also turn invisable in stealth form.
There is a long tutorial that teaches you how to use each form. A cool power in this game is that you can freeze time, when you have enough energy orbs. While time is frozen, your enemies are unable to move, but you will be able to execute deadly combo attacks with whatever forms you have.

Pros:
+freeze time
+cool looking combo attacks
+good music
+good sound effects
+nice graphics
+three transformation modes

Cons:
-cheap shots from enemies
-gets difficult fast
-becomes repetative
-linear gameplay

overall an average game. Freezing time and doing
combo attacks are fun, but very difficult to pull off.
I was also very annoyed by the cheap shots from the
cpu enemies.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Off on a tangent., September 21, 2003

By 

David Vohs (Pearl Harbor, HI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alter Echo (Video Game)

I first saw this game about a month ago, not really knowing that much about it. I looked around & saw some very good reviews, & so I got it.

I must say that this is one of the most original games I've played in a good long while. The screen distortion effects, time dialation concept (not too unlike "Bullet Time" effects) & just the whole game in general was well thought out, & even more brilliantly executed.

I hightly reccommend this game.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time to morph and save the world!, August 15, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Alter Echo (Video Game)

When i first watched the demo's of Alter Echo i wasn't sure of it and now it seems to become an exciting game!! You can freeze time which is really cool because you can plan your own attack layout, and try using your stratgic side of you to deck and anhilate the outher opponants! over-all this game is great and is worth the money and it is fun playing it over and over again!
When your on the organic planet you can morph into three modes stealth(that let's you be invisible basically and jump to outher places and climb almost anything!!You also can be in melee mode or gun mode! In melee mode you can unleash your sword and be a big part in this game by using your freeze ability!
Also when your in gun mode you are a tank and basically have fun and blow up hordes of guys!! it's a great game !
And when they say you can morph on the fly there not joking, when your jumping from place to place you can morph in mid-jump and surprise the enemy!! you should really think about getting this game!