{"id":13002,"date":"2015-01-12T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T00:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2015-01-05T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T12:55:28","slug":"guilty-gear-xrd-sign-ps3-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/guilty-gear-xrd-sign-ps3-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty Gear Xrd –SIGN– (PS3, PS4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GUILTY_BOX\"<\/a>Not really sure how you pronounce \u2018Xrd\u2019 or even what that means, but this is the newest in the Guilty Gear 2-D one-on-one fighter series.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for PS3 and PS4, but reviewed on PS3 here.\u00a0 Just like other brawlers, pick your favorite anime-styled fighter and go against the computer or other players as you use fancy joystick movements and button combinations to perform outlandish moves to knock out your opponents.<\/p>\n

The new Guilty Gear game has several modes for single players and online.\u00a0 In Arcade Mode, you can go through the story of each character as you battle a progression of fighters.\u00a0 Vs. Mode is for two players to battle it out locally.\u00a0 M.O.M. Mode is a unique single player mode where you collect medals after knocking out your opponent, and then use those medals to upgrade your character.\u00a0 It just adds some complexity and difficulty for those who want that.<\/p>\n

There is also a Story Mode, but it\u2019s not what you might think.\u00a0 It\u2019s just reading a bunch of text about the aftermath of the characters and settings in Arcade Mode, so you\u2019ll want to play that first beforehand.\u00a0 But Story Mode does have a lot of full animation and voice acting, so if you like anime cartoons with lots of convoluted storylines, you\u2019ll enjoy this part of the game, too.\u00a0 Especially if you like the Guilty Gear characters.<\/p>\n

You can also practice moves in the Training Modes, and take on challenges and missions to sharpen your skills, too.\u00a0 And of course there is a plethora of online modes as well.\u00a0 You can also view your saved replays, read up on the history of the characters and settings of Guilty Gear, and buy pictures, sounds, and even characters in the Gallery with points you earn while playing.<\/p>\n

One of the things that impressed me the most is the graphics.\u00a0 The characters look like hand-drawn cartoons, but for certain special moves, the game\u2019s camera will rotate around even though it\u2019s a 2-D game.\u00a0 This coupled with fully animated intros and win poses makes it hard to distinguish where the cartoon ends and the game begins.\u00a0 It\u2019s very impressive.<\/p>\n

However, the game has a few minor problems.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t as many characters to select from, which is something that other Guilty Gear games have in common, too.\u00a0 While it\u2019s good they didn\u2019t let adding too many characters bog the game down, I was surprised that some favorites didn\u2019t make the cut, and I\u2019m afraid they might end up being DLC later on.\u00a0 Plus the game is pretty difficult, even on Easy Mode.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re a seasoned pro and enjoyed the other Guilty Gear games, you\u2019ll probably want to get this one, too.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guilty Gear Xrd \u2013SIGN– is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Tobacco, and Violence.\u00a0 I really didn\u2019t notice too much blood, as the game is pretty cartoony.\u00a0 Of course there is violence since it\u2019s a fighting game, but again, everything is pretty cartoonish.\u00a0 Some of the female characters wear revealing outfits and say suggestive things, and other characters smoke, too.\u00a0 There is cursing in the text and while playing, and some of the fighters are real potty mouths.\u00a0 All this plus the high difficulty level make this game best suited for teens and older gamers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not really sure how you pronounce \u2018Xrd\u2019 or even what that means, but this is the newest in the Guilty Gear 2-D one-on-one fighter series.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for PS3 and PS4, but reviewed on PS3 here.\u00a0 Just like other brawlers, pick your favorite anime-styled fighter and go against the computer or other players as you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13005,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions\/13005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}