Guilty Gear

Guilty Gear is a series of sprite-based fighting games designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari and Arc System Works and published by Sammy Studios. It is popular with fans for its detailed graphics, original characters, unique gameplay, and its numerous references to rock music, particularly the Heavy Metal subgenre.

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Sprite - Fighting game - Daisuke Ishiwatari - Arc System Works - Sammy Studios - Graphics - Gameplay - Rock music - Heavy Metal

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The first game in the series, Guilty Gear, was released in arcades and home systems in 1998. While it did gain some praise from the mainstream video game press such as Gamespot, http://www.gamespot.com/ps/action/guiltygear/index.html?q=Guilty+Gear it didn't make much of an impact on the video game market. However, the release of its sequel Guilty Gear X in 2000 gained much more attention with its gameplay and more detailed graphics. In 2002, Guilty Gear XX (known as Guilty Gear X2 in North America) was released, furthering the individual stories while improving on gameplay and visuals. This was soon followed by Guilty Gear XX #Reload ("Sharp Reload," likely in reference to the Metallica album Reload), which addressed a number of gameplay imbalances in XX and changed both matchplay tier arrangement and the "distance" between the tiers, added a new tournament-legal character, and brought the series online with Xbox Live. The latest installment (2004) is titled Guilty Gear Isuka ("Isuka" meaning crossbill in Japanese, and representing the way two swords clash) and features up to four-player simultaneous gameplay, allowing for 2 vs 2, 2 vs 1, 3 vs 1, 1 vs 1, and three- and four-way free-for-all matches, a side-scrolling mode called "Boost Mode", a customizable version of one of the characters, a new playable character, and various other goodies. A new installment to the series, Guilty Gear XX Slash, has been released in Japan, and features one new character (an alternate version of Sol) and a modified version of A.B.A from Guilty Gear Isuka, as well as balance changes for the rest of the cast. http://www.arcsy.co.jp/frame-top.html, http://www.guiltygearx.com/am

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Arcades - Home systems - 1998 - Gamespot - Sequel - 2000 - 2002 - North America - Metallica - Reload - Xbox Live - 2004 - Crossbill - Sol - A.B.A

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