Dreamcast

Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future

Title screen

Main menu

Stenellas and a tursiops? Ah the glories of dolphin equality.

Controls

Frolicking Ecco.

Your quest begins.

Eating a fish.

The Guardian shatters.

Using the power of metamorphosis.

Loading a level.

Atlantean architecture...

...from above the waves.

The guardian...

...tells it like it is.

Inside a building.

For 500 years... Humans and dolphins have lived in peace and harmony.

Dolphins and Humans leave earth in search of new worlds. Offering peace and friendship wherever they may go.

However...

Greetings geezer.

A whale!

Leave the controls alone long enough and Ecco looks at you with confusion.

A Passage from Genesis, meant to simulate the original Ecco games.

Oh yes I remember those games, damned hard!

Using the power of sonar.

The Foe descend on earth after the defense fails...

... to rob the Dolphins of their future!

A nice graphical effect

The form of a Foe

The past changes, Humans have killed themselves, leaving only their weapons.

Ecco before the temple of controversy.

A view of this awful structure

Murals depeciting the enslavement of the Dolphins.

Dangerous jellyfish

The warped dolphins of the future

They don't quite take to Ecco.

Another warped dolphin

Ecco with Dolphin work suit

Following some tracks.

Sucked into the doomsday weapons.

Inside the tentacled doom machine

The infamous "Hanging Waters" level

The red tattoo is a mark of status in the future of dominant dolphin society.

Dolphins that have altered themselves.

Strange dolphin technology...

...glows oddly above the water.

The chief engineer

The dolphin dictator Mutaclone can't afford to let you win.

The guardian urges you to continue.

The view from death

Ecco's star shine