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Sammy Studios Rocks Out Guilty Gear X2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: January 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sammy Studios has recently released the follow up to Guilty Gear with Guilty Gear X2 for the Playsation 2. The 2D fighter now contains 20 different playable characters and a metal soundtrack that sounds absolutely amazing. Stunning visuals, outrageous fighting styles and several levels of play are what you can expect from the title. The story of focuses on war between humans and the bio-weapon Gears. Thought to be finished in Guilty Gear X, they are back and bigger and stronger than ever!

Is this 1985, 2003 or 2180?
Looking at the names of some of the characters and a listen at the soundtrack might have you thinking you time-warped back to the day when groups like Guns N' Roses and Testament were in vogue. That would be because the soundtrack sounds like it came right off the record of Japanese guitar idol Kuni or maybe the band Loudness. Also, the names of the people you'll match up against include Axl Low, Eddie, Zappa, Slayer, Testament, Venom and Chipp Zanuff!

Guilty Gear A La Mode
Each character has some pretty dazzling moves and attacks and it's up to you to beat the living tar out of your opponent before he/she does it to you.

You can practice your combos and perfect your attacks in the training mode. You can also set up the characteristics of your opponent for maximum skill enhancement.

Arcade Mode - finds you matched up against a series of computer opponents until you finish the game. A second player can enter the fray at any time.

M.O.M Mode - enters you into a one-fall match where medals are awarded to you as you utilize your combos on your opponent. The greater the level of the medal the more points you'll get.

Vs 2P Mode - finds you on the battlefield against another live player. You can battle as long as you like and after every victory you can choose different fighters.

Vs CPU Mode - takes you on a wild ride against computer controlled enemies. Again at the end of each battle you can choose a different matchup.

Survival Mode - matches you up in a race to beat all of your CPU opponents in consecutive order with boss characters appearing at fixed intervals.

Mission Mode - sets up specific tasks you will need to accomplish before awarded the victory. By far the most fun and challenging mode Guilty Gear offers.

Story Mode - Pick a character and follow a small story arc until you have lived your destiny.

As you can see there is a lot of fighting to do and many characters to allow you to kick butt now and take names later. The only flaw I had with the title is the lack of an English translation. The game contains subtitled dialogues and is spoken fully in Japanese. I found myself rocking out to a killer soundtrack and skipping all of the text screens. I understand that it's staying true to the original but with all the disc space allotted on a Playstation 2 title, English overdubbs might have made me a little more interested in listening to what the characters had to say.

Still, that doesn't take away from the spectacular graphics, diverse character selection and endless game play you'll encounter with 9 totally different game modes. You can customize the game's features too, adding and subtracting powers and skills, the timer and the toughness of your opponent so that when you become the master of all that is evil, you can try again with increased difficulty.

Publisher: Sammy Studios
Developer: Arc System Works, Co.
Release Date: Available Now
Genre: Fighting
Number of Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: Teen (Blood, Mature Sexual Themes, Violence)

Graphics: 5.0
Sound: 5.0
Control: 4.0
Overall Fun Factor : 3.75

GGXX

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Guity Gear for PSO was great, easily the best fighting game I have ever played. With the arrival of this title on PS2 as Guilty gear X, I thought "CANT be a better fighting game than this", I am happy that I was wrong, this game ROCKS. The graphics are hi-res, the music inspires to fight (BEST OST I have ever heard) the control is awesome, and the gameplay is top-notch. All togheter makes a "must buy". I could rate it with a 9 (its what it deserves) but beacause I LOVE fighting games, this receives 10!
Of course this is funnier with a friend than playing for yourself. Other thing that I REALLY LIKED was the Japanese language with English subtitles. I've ALWAYS dreamed the day I would knew a game of this kind.

Believe me, you cant go wrong with this game.

CDFL

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If I could play only two fighting games for the rest of my life, I would choose this as one of them with Street Fighter 3:3rd Strike finfishing off the list.

I have yet to play the region 1 ps2 version, but one of my friends imported it from japan, and two of the local arcades I go to both have Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival, and I have to say that it is amazing. The amount of detail that has gone into character design is quite amazing. I-No and Jam both look amazing. The animation looks cleaner than even Street Fighter 3: Third Strike (which is something to say).

A part where I feel it rises above the generic wave of 2d fighters is in its balance, innovation, and speed of gameplay.
Balance: Like SF3:3S, the game is amazingly well balanced, and at my local arcade I have seen people win with almost every single character with the exception of Venom because of his difficult mind-games, set-ups and steep learning curve; and Zappa because, I have never seen someone actually play with him.

Innovation: the weapons based fighting is not really a novel idea to the 2D genre (remeber Samurai Showdown?), but it the weapons that are used that really make the additional aesthetic appeal (May's anchor, Bridgette's yo-yo, and Venom's pool cue, and I-No's guitar) just to name a few. The button configuration (5 of them) is easy to get used to when learning. I feel that this game has improved on its its prequils.

Gameplay: The section that matters the most. Although it may seem that the fighting engine is only skin deep at first glance and it requires mass button mashing. The game is deep in the same sense that Marvel vs. Capcom 2 requires a large amount of strategies to use the individual character's traps and infinite combo's (yes there are infinites in this game). The game also includes cancels and a variety of other special in game fighting features that will be taken advantage of once the engine is learned. Another thing, this game is fast paced, and it rewards rush-down and tries to restrict turtling. Your meter drops if you turtle. The dashes and running and speed of the moves help add to this.

The music is amazing. Like the first game, perfect fighting game music. Remember MvC2's jazz? Fast paced aggressive is so much better for the rush-down combo oriented game.

I have to admit that I have never played this game on the standard ps2 controller, only on a custom-made joystick. So I do not know how the control plays with a controller.

Versus, like any fighting game, is the mode that most shines because it is essentially the most fun to play a fighting game with another person because the computer can become predictable.

All in all, this is an excellent fighting game where I don't think you could go wrong in buying. This is one of the rare very balanced 2D fighters that has made its appearance since 3rd Strike.

Gameplay is still king.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Guilty Gear X2. This is an unique fighting game not seen around much anymore. A lot of kids will undoubtedly take one look at this game and go (insert sterotypical blonde voice) "ewww, that is SO 1997". This game doesn't use flashy 3D megapolygons. But it has so much style and is so well animated that it doesn't need the high polygon count. Animations are crisp, fluent and pack tons of style. This game does use pixels, along with a few CG flashes here and there. The game looks and feels like a live action controllable anime. That's what makes this game look so great! It is similar looking to the older games like Marvel vs Capcom and all those good times we had at the arcades. However, this game truly does stand out.

How so? This game has wild animation that NEVER rests in its background and in its characters. And each character is unique, adding huge variety. Everything from scary gothic-types with big scythes, to cute little 12 year old pirate girls with big anchors. Every character is either serious, hilarious, cool or just plain bizzare. Each character has their own style and will never, ever do the same things. I've noticed in other fighting games that developers like to rehash and use the same moves for characters. Look at Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, where Scorpion and Kenshi have the EXACT SAME SWORD MOVES. However, in this game, every character will do something different. Each character has true styles that will take some time to learn and master. Each character is balanced and well designed. Each combo is unique in this game. Allowing for long combos, flashy and brillant special attacks, and a new thing added to the fighting genre, the Instant Kill. Instant Kill moves are moves that are hard to pull off but do as their names say. They instantly kill the opponent in one hit! Like a MK fatality, except with a purpose. It does make this game fun as it makes battles able to turn around in a heartbeat.

Controls are solid here and the moves are well designed. They are easy to learn but hard to master. Easy enough for a newcommer to pick up the basics but hard enough for players to polish their skills. Gameplay shines in this game; every single battle is fast and furious. This game is very engaging and fun. You can recover, counter, dodge, counter-dodge, and do other things in this game. Skilled players will be able to counter a 12 hit combo, but even better players will be able to counter the counter. It is fun!

The soundtrack in this game is excellent. Every sound stands out and the music is wonderful. If you're sick of psuedo-temple hymns and techno bubble pop music in your fighting games, then GGX2 will be your best friend. The soundtrack rocks, with a good variety of hard rocking music fitted to the situations. There isn't any cheesy synthetic pyro-rock here either. Each song has its own hard edge and is tailored to the characters' personalities. Even the song titles fit the characters. The sound is very very catchy and some people would even consider buying the soundtrack to this game.

Now, every fighting game has its ordinary shopping list of game modes. Guilty Gear X2 delivers the list and more. Arcade, Story, vs 2p and CPU, Medal mode, mission mode, and a few others make the variety and originality in this game bleed through. Story mode allows you to get to know each character better. And it has tons of replay value, as each character has three different endings to unlock. There are 20 normal characters. That's around 60 endings in total!

Some may be dissapointed on the way Story mode is presented. It is told through anime style slides with audio dilagoue spoken in japanese with english subtitles. The stories themselves range from serious, funny or freaky. All the ends of the story spectrum are here and they will entertain you. The stories are well told. Also, the mission mode does offer a ton of challenge. This is something for experienced players to strut their stuff. The difficulty level on all modes are ranged and can be set for suitable levels for newcomers, or just plain ludicrious for those expert elite. It's a great game that does adjust to your skill level.

This is a truly great game. With its crisp anime-type style, interesting, balanced, and entertaining characters, great gameplay options, rocking soundtrack, entertaining storyline, an adjusting difficulty, and its new twists and spins on a dying genre, I would suggest this game to any fighting game fan. You will truly get your money's worth with this game. It almost makes you want to say "Forget polygons, gameplay is still king!"

Amazing graphics and fighting gameplay

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Guilty Gear X2 is a 2D fighting game that boasts gorgeous anime graphics, detailed backgrounds, great fight combos, and a soundtrack straight out of the 80s of rock.

First, the graphics. They are just amazing. The characters move just like anime cartoons (and with better animation than many out there) - complete with billowing smoke, ripple effects, zaps of lightning, and much more.

Being a 2D fighter you can't move into the scenery, but the backgrounds are well detailed and match the characters nicely. The fighting styles are quite detailed, each is unique. Characters fight with anchors, guitars, yoyos, jumprope chains, and much more.

The game is definitely themed to 80s rock and metal music. The background music jams and was done by great bands. The characters themselves are named things like Axl and Venom.

The fighting gameplay is great. You can play against other players, or in a variety of single player modes that are engrossing and challenging. There are numerous special moves including killer moves that can be done at any time in the game (if you can get the button combos down!)

Story mode is around 10 battles, but on the downside you can't save. So once you start a sequence, you can't save partway through and restart it later. Some battles can be incredibly hard until you figure out the right combo to win, so you can be stuck in one spot for an hour or more. Still, a game should be challenging sometimes!

Also, most of the dialogue is in Japanese, although they do subtitle the important parts in English. Even though it's in Japanese, some of the taunts can get very repetitive.

Highly recommended for any fighting game fan, especially for those who have another human around to play multiplayer with!

Best 2D fighter on earth.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 25, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Guilty Gear X2 is the sequel to the overlooked original. This time around it features much deeper and strategic gameplay, with a few more characters, and a ton more modes. This is a must have for anyone fond of the good old 2d fighters. It has the best 2D graphics and animation on the market and abseloutely KILLS Capcom for visuals. Check this one out for sure.

Feel GUILTY for not trying this game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. Ok, so the moves are hard to execute, but that's what the training mode is for. Also, the game loads matches up to 2 seconds, and you'll want to hear that rock music over and over and over again. And the mission mode is very challenging (i only completed 2 missions). Only problem is that you have to look on the internet to get the different endings in story mode. But this game just beats the .... out of street fighter.

I'll sum it up for you

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 36
Date: April 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What can i say? oh yeah, this is Guilty Gear times two! If that title doesn't get you excited then, well, actually nevermind this game is horrible! Just look at it! What the heck is Sammy Studios? Burning 50 $'s would be more fun. Listen to me, i would know! Oh wait, i forgot that i don't own the game.

pretty good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

pretty fun with a lot of technical stuff to learn, only bad/good thing is how fast it is......VERY fast, so if you like crazy action like marvel vs capcom then you will probably like this, it is definitely not like street fighter 3 though so depends on your preference, has some cool crazy effects but not a ton of frames of animation (though each frame does look cool), a ton of stuff to unlock and a BRUTAL hard mission mode for people that want maximum replay/value

A thrilling game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm genrally wary of 2D fighters, and generally of beat-em-up games altogether. I brought this game after I saw a review of it in PSM2: 8/10, and my bro recomended it to me as we are both anime fans. Most fighting games have good moves and a few extra characters, and just about enough storyline to keep you intriuged. Guilty Gear X 2 has SPECTACULAR moves enhanced by 3D grpahics which are neough to make anyone stare in awe. It doesn't just have one storyline, it has many of them, THREE for each character relating to his or her past, or otherwise. Whats more is that all of these unique storylines intertwine. The plot is enough to keep most people fathoming it all out with it's subtle hints for hours. The combo system is unique and varying in complexity from character to character, uncluding relavent, written dialoge between fights. GGX2 has enough unlockable things to make a sequel to itself, and these aren't just pretty things that have no use what-so-ever, they are important and can add-to, and even change, the whole way the game can be played. The game has Story mode, survival, M.O.M mode, Mission mode (these missions are so challenging that they'll keep you busy quite literally for days.), Arcade mode, training, and VS. You have to work very hard for these unlockables, like for example, to unlock GG mode (something that changes the wholeway the game is played) you either have to reach level 300 on survival, view ALL the ending for ALL the 16 characters you can play from the start, or complete 45 missions. The speed and extremities make your blood pump and your heart race, I'm being serious. Once I finished one battle which was a real challenge and a very tight finish, I could hear my heart beating away. By the time you've completely finished this game, the sequel will probably come out a year ago. BUY THIS! IT IS QUITE LITERALLY THE BEST OUT ON THE BEAT EM UP MARKET FOR A LONG, LONG TIME!!!!

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