Gamespot: Guilty Gear 2: Overture Review

Good luck making heads or tails out of Guilty Gear 2: Overture. Given the way that the game sews scraps of different genres together to form a patchwork quilt of action and strategy, you have to wonder if even the developers were entirely sure what they were making. Both the revamp of the series' 2D beat-'em-up beatdowns and the introduction of a tactical feature are just skimmed over, leaving the action a jumbled mess of whirling punches and the strategy so shallow that you barely need to pay it any attention. This frenetic experiment in mixing and matching is so all over the place that it spins your head as more than it revs up your adrenaline.

The Good:
* Combining beat-'em-up action with tactics is a great idea
* Visuals are distinctive and colorful
* Solid and challenging multiplayer.

The Bad:
* Incoherent storyline and absolutely insane dialogue
* Shallow beat-'em-up mechanics
* Tactical layer so thin that you can almost ignore it.