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Guilty Gear Dust Strikers

The no holds barred, sci-fi fighting franchise is reborn on the Nintendo DS. Guilty Gear Dust Strikers features all 21 Guilty Gear characters from previous versions (including SolBadbuy, Potemkin, May, Dizzy…

45 25 May 2006

Guilty Gear Dust Strikers is a fighting developed by Arc System Works, released 25 May 2006 on Nintendo DS.

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What Guilty Gear Dust Strikers is

Guilty Gear Dust Strikers is a fighting game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2006. It was published by Majesco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The no holds barred, sci-fi fighting franchise is reborn on the Nintendo DS. Guilty Gear Dust Strikers features all 21 Guilty Gear characters from previous versions (including SolBadbuy, Potemkin, May, Dizzy and others) in a battle that takes place on multiple levels across both DS screens. Navigate different types of floors and traps as you battle against the computer or via wireless multi-player connections. 6 modes of play including Arcade, Story, VS Battle and mini games. Customize the Robo-Ky character with various move sets in the Robo-Ky factory mode. Battle your friends in 4-player wireless versus matches where the last person standing moves on. Master 10 mini-games like Billiards…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Guilty Gear series

Guilty Gear Dust Strikers is the 12th of 47 entries we hold in the Guilty Gear series. It arrived 8 months after Guilty Gear XX Slash. The next entry was Guilty Gear Judgment in 2006. Its critic score of 45 is 25 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Guilty Gear: Strive - Nintendo Switch Edition at 100.

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How it was received

Guilty Gear Dust Strikers holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 8% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Guilty Gear Dust Strikers launched on 25 May 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money and Heroes of Might and Magic V. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, New Super Mario Bros., Hitman: Blood Money, Heroes of Might and Magic V.

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When did Guilty Gear Dust Strikers come out?
Guilty Gear Dust Strikers was released on 25 May 2006 for Nintendo DS.

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