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Guilty Gear Xrd
Textless cover of the home console versions
Developer(s)Arc System Works Team Red
Publisher(s)Arcade
Sega
PS3, PS4
Director(s)
Designer(s)Daisuke Ishiwatari
Artist(s)Hidehiko Sakamura
Writer(s)
  • Daisuke Ishiwatari
  • Takeshi Yamanaka
  • Yoshito Shoudai
Composer(s)
  • Daisuke Ishiwatari
  • Norichika Sato
SeriesGuilty Gear
EngineUnreal Engine 3
Platform(s)
ReleaseArcade
PS3, PS4
Genre(s)Fighting
Mode(s)
Arcade systemSega RingEdge 2

Guilty Gear Xrd[note 1] (Japanese: ギルティギア イグザード, Hepburn: Giruti Gia Iguzādo) is a 2.5D fighting game developed by Arc System Works. It is the fifth installment in the Guilty Gear series. The game was developed using Unreal Engine 3, with cel-shaded graphics in place of hand drawn sprites.

The first Xrd game, Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- (ギルティギア イグザード サイン, Giruti Gia Iguzādo Sain) was released in arcades on February 20, 2014, and was released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan and North America in December of the same year, with a release date in Europe due for June 2015. The game has been praised for its cel-shaded graphics and approachable gameplay, but criticized for its non-interactive story mode and smaller roster of characters.

A new 2015 update called Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- (ギルティギア イグザード レブレータ, Giruti Gia Iguzādo Sain Reburēta) was announced for summer release, starting from a location test at June 5 - 19, 2015. [2]

Gameplay

See also: Gameplay in the Guilty Gear series

The game uses a six-button layout: four of which are responsible for the attacks—punch, kick, slash, and heavy slash—, and the other two for special actions like throws, air dashes, and cancels.[3]

The game features three main modes: Network Mode, Practice Mode, Battle Mode and Story Mode. In the first one the player can have online matches, through the PlayStation Network (PSN), which can be ranked or not in world rankings. The Practice Mode contains a regular training mode, a tutorial mode that teachs the basic controls, a mission mode that simulates battle situations, and a challenge mode that is focused on performing combos.[4]

The Battle Mode comprehends an arcade mode, which unveils the game's story after the player defeats eigth opponents, a versus mode, in which the player can have offline battles with a second player or against a CPU, and a M.O.M mode.[4] The last one, which is an acronym for Medal of Millionaire, is a variation of the regular survival mode in which the player earns medals based on performance and evolves through a progression system.[5]

Synopsis

Plot

The game is set in 2187, one year after its predecessor, Guilty Gear 2: Overture.[6]

Characters

See also: List of Guilty Gear characters

The arcade version of the game initially featured thirteen playable characters. Sol Badguy, Ky Kiske, Millia Rage, May, Chipp Zanuff, Potemkin, Venom, Axl Low, I-No, Faust, Slayer, and Zato-1 return from previous installments, while one new character, Bedman, has been added.[7][8] The game also features a new boss character known as Ramlethal Valentine, who was added to the playable roster in arcades via an update.[9] Additionally, the console versions add Sin Kiske from Overture, and new characters Elphelt Valentine and Leo Whitefang, as playable DLC characters,[10] bringing the total roster count to 17.[3] The console exclusive characters Sin, Elphelt, and Leo will be added to the arcade version along with balance changes on a later date.[11]

In -REVELATOR- update, Johnny, who was non-playable in story mode, along with a mystery character will be playable there.

Development and release

The idea of creating a new Guilty Gear came in 2008, but production only started in 2011; in mid-2012, it progressed to a full-scale production, concluding in 2013.[12] The first trailer for Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- was shown to the public during the annual Arc System Works Festival on May 19, 2013.[13] The trailer demonstrated the 3D cel-shaded graphics—modeled by Softimage[12]—being used in place of 2D sprites and cel animation.[13] Development of the game was handled by an internal Arc System Works team codenamed "Team Red",[14] which consists of 25 members,[12] with series creator Daisuke Ishiwatari as the director.[14]

Ishiwatari developed the game aiming to reach a wide audience as he plans to make Guilty Gear Xrd a new start on the franchise.[15] As such, he intended to make the gameplay more accessible for newcomer players.[16] A priority to Ishiwatari was to make it a cross-platform game so that PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 owners can play against each other.[14] The Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) was used because of its low price, the ease that non-programmers can edit it directly, and of porting it to home consoles.[12] The game was projected to be visually impacting as a way to attract new players and because of Ishiwtari's guess that it was a fundamental factor on the success of games like Street Fighter 2 and Virtua Fighter 2.[16] 3D cameras cutaways for special moves were added to help reach this purpose.[16]

Due to a small amount of time and budget, Ishiwatari had to choose which characters he preferred to be included in the initial roster, with plans to expand it later.[14] Other factors on this decision was also the variety each character added to the gameplay and how they fit on the plot.[16] Each character had to be rendered four times, and each scene had 160mb of textures and 70-80 different shaders on it.[12] The staff did not intend the characters to have physical accuracy, instead they wanted them as close as possible to anime style.[12] The natural lighting of backgrounds were also removed in order to remove shades from characters that made their polygon format evident.[12]

It was released in Japanese arcades on February 20, 2014,[17] on the Sega RingEdge 2 arcade board with support for the ALL.Net P-ras MULTI Ver.2 system,[18] as well as in the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 on December 4 of the same year.[19] It was released in North America by Aksys Games on December 16, 2014,[20] and it is set to be digitally released through PSN in Europe on June 3, 2015 by Arc System Works.[21]

Reception

The game has received "generally favorable reviews", holding a Metacritic score of 85, based on 23 critics;[23] for 2014, it was the 16th best rated game for PS4 and the 131st overall in the site.[31][32] Giant Bomb staff chose the game as the Best-Looking Game of 2014, highlighting the camera capacity of "revealing the game's true nature" when it revolves around the scenario during a special move.[33] Geoffrey Thew of Hardcore Gamer elected it the third best game of 2014, commenting that "The characters are as vibrant and wonderful as we've come to expect from the company, and the new graphics are beyond gorgeous ... but it's the fighting mechanics that really steal the show."[34] It was also nominated for Best Fighting Game of the Year at Game Critics Awards, Hardcore Gamer Awards, and IGN Awards, but lost to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in all them.[35][36][37][38]

Chris Carter of Destructoid praised the "insanely detailed" visuals, the soundtrack, the cross-play between the PS3 and PS4, and although thought the roster to be small, he asserted characters are unique enough to make it good.[3] Electronic Gaming Monthly's Eric L. Patterson complimented it saying "this is the most impressive ... fighting game I've even seen (or played) when it comes to the graphics on display."[24] Patterson also praised the fights, the characters' variety, the "great balance between being newbie friendly and hardcore satisfying", the multiplayer mode, while criticized the overall package as "solo choices are somewhat lacking."[24] Maxwell McGee from GamesRadar dubbed it "unsurprising" and lamented the "several painful absences" of some characters but stated new characters "help fill in these vacancies."[25] McGee also commented that its "art style is clean and striking" but the fact that the story is presented as a single cutscene with no interaction "is, quite frankly, bonkers."[25]

GamesTM reviewer praised the "character depth", its visual that "looks better than a high-budget anime film" but affirmed it is disappointing content-wise, saying "there aren't a whole lot of modes" and calling Story Mode "pointless".[26] Ben Moore wrote for GameTrailers that it is "a full-blown rebirth" to the series and commended the "explosive soundtrack", the "competent, if not exceptional" online mode, while panned the story mode and was mixed to the characters: "despite the high level of quality, the cast still feels rather lean."[5] James Kozanitis of Hardcore Gamer praised the "uniquely interesting" characters but complained about the online mode and elected the story mode the game's Achilles heel. However, Kozanitis stressed that its "solid understanding of core fighting game mechanics" makes it "the installment fans have been waiting for."[27]

Other media

On April 14, 2014, Arc System Works released an extended play containing the arcade opening and ending themes, "Heavy Day" and "Lily", both in regular and karaoke versions.[39] An original four-disc soundtrack containing 73 tracks was released by Arc System Works on March 26, 2015.[40][41] Other related media released include an arcade stick,[42] action figures,[43] key chains,[44] mug illustrations,[45] and badges.[46]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The "Xrd" is pronounced as "Ex Ard"[1]

References

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