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Guilty Gear 2: Overture
Publisher: Aksys Games
Developer: ARC System Works
Genre: Action
Release Date: October 9, 2008
Platform: Xbox 360
Reviewer: Eric
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Guilty Gear series has been the cult favorite in the 2-D fighting genre. Where
Street Fighter II made the genre famous it took Guilty Gear to make characters
and combos funny and insane at the same time. Instead of releasing another
Guilty Gear fighting game ARC System Works is giving us a weird, clustered game
that is known as Overture.
I really don’t know what kind of game this is. There is way too much going on in
Overture. The game is one part hack and slash and another part strategy. Instead
of blending these together nicely like the Dynasty Warriors sometimes do ARC
System Works created a game that tarnishes the Guilty Gear game.
When the game starts you are treated to what is known as Overture. The games
tutorial stage might turn you off from the start because the game feels way too
easy and basic. Hit this button, that one and now combine the two for killer
combos. We’ve seen this before and that isn’t a complete problem. Once you get
into the game, a few stages in, you will start to see the problem. Overture
becomes way too hard and the difficulty doesn’t get easier towards the end of
the game.
Once the game gets real hard you will start to notice all of the games flaws.
Creating new soldiers is a pain. Figuring out the games options screens can
become stressful at times, mainly since you really don’t know if certain
soldiers are any good. The game uses the rock-paper-scissors method but to me it
does not seem to work too well. You will spend most of the time fighting by
yourself and that is why the game is that hard.
Your soldiers tend to be in their own world too. By clicking on the map you can
tell your new soldiers should attack. Once they go to that area to attack I got
lost. How can I get them move to the next location? The strategy aspect of this
game is real bad, when I figured out what to do I was already getting frustrated
because I saw the Game Over screen way too much. Rely on your button mashing
skills and items, mainly bombs. That is the only way you will win.
Even when your soldiers are guarding your different locations there are problems
(are you sick of hearing about the problems with this game?). The game will let
you know that you are being attacked and when you go back to your main area
you’ll see those allies of yours standing there. Try beating a level with
worrying about this, it can’t and won’t happen.
There are only 19 missions in this game. You can beat this game in one sitting
if you please. As much as I saw the Game Over screen I was able to beat this
game without any problems in only a few hours. You can get lucky with some
stages, just making the game that much shorter. Still if you can get half way in
this game you should feel like you accomplished something.
 The game is extremely annoying when it comes to the characters talking. You will
hear the same few speeches over and over again. Cut scenes are a real bore as
well. Graphically the game is nice. All you need to do is put the mute button on
your television when you play, things will be so much better.
Overture does have one nice thing and it’s the online features. There was no
slow down and I actually didn’t have any problems finding opponents. Sadly you
only can pick from Player and Ranked matches, but the stages are at least good
enough for some great online matches. If you enjoyed the game then this is
great, but you still have to remember that all the bad features are still in the
online matches.
Final Verdict
Guilty Gear 2: Overture is not exactly another fighting game from the Guilty
Gear series. Overture takes the hack and slash formula and ruins it with its
strategy flair. Fans of Guilty Gear may want to at least try this one out. For
now I would at least wait for a price drop, Overture is just not worth the
asking price.
Rating
5 out of 10
Guilty Gear 2: Overture Trailer
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