Guilty Gear

Guilty Gear X2
$29.99
I'm gonna try to keep this short and sweet, this game totally ROCKS!, its 2d at its best, the graphics and colors are so viberant and the game play is so sweet with awesome combos that can be chained to other combos, needless to say this game is no walk in the park, with each level the game becomes harder and harder to beat so it will challenge your skills and if thats not enough the fun factor will leave you hungry for more, this game is a must have for fighting fans alike, totally recommended.

Guilty Gear
$51.99
I was introduced to this game years ago when I was 14 years old and the impact of the game's existence to have been experienced by my own two hands and eyes were on never to be forgotten. Rekindled by the experience 3 years later when I mentioned it to another friend made when I had mode prior to my years past, we were lucky enough to have come across it again and hands down, Guilty Gear is THE Fighting Game to be.

The complexity of this game's mechanics and style goes unprecedented and to this day I still connect it as the breath of fresh air of all fighting games, Marvel VS Capcom 2 being a VERY close contender but GG reigns king as far as I'm concerned. The 'Instant Kill' DESTROYED move, where you can win a single game regardless of rounds, is to me the most outstanding feature GG has-- in Mortal Kombat terms, imagine being able to pull off a Fatality THE SECOND the round starts. Now the Destroyed move can be reversed and a game can actually be fought with just trying to 'Destroy' one another and reversing it but most likely someone will succeed or you'll just end up quitting and want to play the game, ha ha.

The game plays furious and with a visceral gnaw to the soul, the aural experience is one to be heard (I've a sound system hooked up and I crank that sucker up as LOUD as I can legally pump my stereo to this game, and it never fails to detest my love of how awesome this game feels as it sounds), and though dated, the game still has a nostalgic essence of what 2D games, fighting or not, were and that represents a fantastic 'oldskool' feel to it-- you can't go wrong or any more oldskool than this.

As mentioned in a prior review from Gamespot "The downside to this great fighting game (especially when you consider how long Arc's been working on it) is the lack of options." One must also consider just how big (or rather, small) Arc Systems was then and that ever detail they put into the game now amounts to the work they put in then and the Playstation had its limitations on just what Arc could offer. Guilty Gear is a true Spartan of a video game in the sense it only has Normal, Versus and Training Mode, but what it lacks in features, makes up for in true gaming bliss of what every fighting game should be all about; the action. Guilty Gear may lack features which could affect it as flawed considering other games that came out prior, but it is a masterpiece by design. If anything, Guilty Gear has set the bar gone unnoticed of what all fighting games should be, but that's what makes this game much more special and outstanding above all the rest.

Pros -

Gameplay -- Visceral, Heart-Pounding action that puts Capcom's mettle to shame.

Sound -- CRANK THAT BOX UP! You haven't played Guilty Gear to its fullest till you've played it on max decibels.

Graphics -- Truly oldskool but definitely up to par, my bias inclining as I've still a love for 2D fighters.

Fun -- As fun as the competition gets, make sure you have a good friend who's also a worthy opponent. If you get far into it like I have, you'll even find the Hard difficulty computer easy and simply BEG for some human competition.

CONS --

I don't own a 90'' TV screen to truly adore the game as I'd like to in that crazy arcade sense.

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To this day, I still pop the game in from time to time and it still feels like the first time I played it-- NEVER disappointed.

Guilty Gear 2: Overture
$59.99
I have been a fan of GG for a long while and was exicted when I heard that the next game would be an action game, but sadly it falls short of my expectations. Don't get me wrong the game is not terrible it just gets repetitive. Most of the missons involve a kind of "capture the base" where you and your enemy battle for control over "ghosts" and then once you've captured all the ghosts you must destroy the enemys "masterghost" which is their base. One thing that disappointed me was the lack of characters, the only ones from the original game series are Sol Badguy and Ky (but Ky is nonplayable) while the rest are newcomers. Also in the game are these things you can summon on the battlefield called "servents" which fight along side you, it kinda reminded me of Chaos Legion for PS2. Overall its a decent game if you're a fan of Guilty Gear if not you might want to look elsewere.

Guilty Gear X Series 1 Figure Sol Badguy
$9.99
It's a great toy, especially on how rare it is. A definite must-have for Guilty Gear fans!