It's easily the best 2-D fighter in ages, hands down. Everything about Guilty Gear X2 is well done. Its a sign of what the fighter genre is truly capable of. The cast consists of some 20+ characters. Very unique characters, I might add. Great (if very far out) designs all around give the game a style that puts Capcom and SNK's casts to shame. Characters that come to life in impressive high-res sprites giving the game plenty of splash. And gameplay-wise, the characters all play differently but at the same time the game is incredibly balanced. Not to mention, the characters and move names are filled with countless heavy metal references. It plays great too. Anyone with experience in other 2-D fighters will have no problem picking it up. Four main attack buttons plus a sort of uppercut that launches your oppenents in the air. You have perfect guards (take no chipping damage at the expense of your super meter), you have Roman cancels, you have extremely difficult one-hit kills. There are long combos but even those have a setback in that each hit in a combo does less and less damage. There's a great deal of depth here. In terms of single player, Guilty Gear X2 has that covered better than most other 2-D fighters and most 3-D ones as well. The AI in any of the modes puts up a fight. Story mode lets you go through a series of oppenents with character conversations in between to set up the story. (They don't speak English but there's subtitles. Lack of English dialogue is really the only thing I can knock this game for.)The Story mode is challenging but packs plenty of replay value, as each character has 3 different paths. There's also a mission mode where you will face certain challenges. Be it only certain attacks will hurt your oppenent, or you can't jump, or you're poisoned...the list goes on. This is where you go if you're hungry for a real challenge. So in conclusion, Guilty Gear X2 comes highly recommended to anyone with an interest in 2-D fighters. It's indeed that good and single-handedly saves a dying genre.
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