Guilty Gear X2 #Reload

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60 26 March 2003

Arcade Fighting Action

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload is an arcade developed by Arc System Works, released 26 March 2003 on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

Verified 18 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Guilty Gear X2 #Reload is

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload is an arcade game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2003. It was published by KISS ltd. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Arcade and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Guilty Gear is a series of fighting games by Arc System Works, created and designed by artist Daisuke Ishiwatari. The first game was published in 1998, and has spawned several sequels. It has also adapted to other media such as manga and drama CDs. Guilty Gear has generally received praise from video game reviewers for its highly technical gameplay, graphics, soundtrack, and for its characters. Another fighting game franchise by Arc System Works, BlazBlue, is considered a spiritual successor of the series.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Guilty Gear series

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload is the ninth of 47 entries we hold in the Guilty Gear series. The next entry was Guilty Gear Isuka in 2003. Its critic score of 60 is 10 points below the series average of 70. The highest-rated entry is Guilty Gear: Strive - Nintendo Switch Edition at 100.

See all 47 Guilty Gear games in release order →

How it was received

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Pentium III 700Mhz, 256 MB RAM and 64MB or better. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Guilty Gear X2 #Reload launched on 26 March 2003, within three weeks of WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Championship Manager 4, Final Fantasy X-2 and Midnight Club 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Championship Manager 4, Final Fantasy X-2, Midnight Club 2.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Guilty Gear X2 #Reload yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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