Guilty Gear 2: Overture
Two completely different game systems carried out in a fast paced real-time environment. Be the commander of your troops, and also be the frontline hero of your army, battling enemy forces head-on while giving…
Guilty Gear 2: Overture is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Arc System Works, released 7 October 2007 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Guilty Gear 2: Overture is
Guilty Gear 2: Overture is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2007. It was published by 505 Games. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Two completely different game systems carried out in a fast paced real-time environment. Be the commander of your troops, and also be the frontline hero of your army, battling enemy forces head-on while giving out commands!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Guilty Gear series
Guilty Gear 2: Overture is the 15th of 47 entries we hold in the Guilty Gear series. It arrived 10 months after Guilty Gear XX Accent Core. The next entry was Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus in 2008. Its critic score of 72 is 2 points above the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Guilty Gear: Strive - Nintendo Switch Edition at 100.
How it was received
Guilty Gear 2: Overture holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Quad, 2.8GHz and above, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 9800GT and above. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Guilty Gear 2: Overture launched on 7 October 2007, within three weeks of Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher and Team Fortress 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Portal, Halo 3, The Witcher, Team Fortress 2.
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