Guilty Gear 2 Overture PAL XBOX360-STRANGE torrent [helltorrent]

There's nothing new about a series working outside its original genre. But there are inherent risks. The personality of

a franchise is largely cultivated by the tenets -- and sometimes, constrictions -- of its genre. Guilty Gear has a

reputation for its exquisite 2D art and wild characters that express themselves through their outrageous fighting moves.

But neither of those key points survives the transition to an action-strategy game, leaving Overture a hollow experience

that will only appear to the hardest of hardcore Guilty Gear fans that care far more about just spending time with

heroes like Sol Badguy than whether or not he's appearing in a halfway enjoyable game.

It's entirely too easy and unfair to dismiss Guilty Gear 2: Overture as a real-time strategy Dynasty Warriors with big

hair. Only half of the single-player campaign is strategy oriented. The rest of it consists of genre mash-ups, like a 3D

brawler and a scavenger hunt. It's Overture's scattershot approach, dumping so many ideas into a single game, that is

its biggest weakness. A handful of really good concepts are never properly executed, such as the very cool different

armies each hero can summon into the battlefield or the intriguing homage to an arcade-style shoot-'em-up that occurs

late in the game