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GunBuster series

Aim for the Top! Gunbuster

A Japanese only PlayStation 2 adventure game which follows the story of the classic Gainax 1988 anime OVA. Top o Nerae! GunBuster is a video game released in Japan for the Playstation 2 on February 3, 2005…

3 February 2005

Aim for the Top! Gunbuster is an adventure developed by Shade, released 3 February 2005 on PlayStation 2.

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What Aim for the Top! Gunbuster is

Aim for the Top! Gunbuster is an adventure game developed by Shade and released in 2005. It was published by Bandai. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A Japanese only PlayStation 2 adventure game which follows the story of the classic Gainax 1988 anime OVA. Top o Nerae! GunBuster is a video game released in Japan for the Playstation 2 on February 3, 2005. The game does not follow the events of the series, but instead tells a new story which builds on the themes of the original. The game is divided into roaming adventure scenes in which Noriko must converse with characters and collect items to advance the story, and action segments in which Noriko and Kazumi pilot the Gunbuster mecha.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the GunBuster series

Aim for the Top! Gunbuster is the sixth of 6 entries we hold in the GunBuster series. It arrived 3 years after Super Robot Taisen Alpha for Dreamcast. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

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What it launched against

Aim for the Top! Gunbuster launched on 3 February 2005, within three weeks of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 and MVP Baseball 2005.

Released around the same time: Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2, MVP Baseball 2005.

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When did Aim for the Top! Gunbuster come out?
Aim for the Top! Gunbuster was released on 3 February 2005 for PlayStation 2.

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