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Guilty Gear Judgment 
Release date: 0 2006
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No Guilt in this Gear
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Guilty Gear is just one of those series that can find its way onto any console or handheld and prove to be excellent. Guilty Gear Judgment is looking as though it will continue this streak, and is definitely looking like one of the PSP’s best games yet, and seems to capture every ounce of enjoyment from the incredible X2 #Reload on the Xbox.
For those who don’t know the story behind the Guilty Gear series, in the year 2010, a new source of energy was discovered that was more effective than anything previously known, and was dubbed the name "Magic". Eventually, Magic was used by different countries to create bio-weapons called, ironically, gears. Gears could be created from many different animals, but the prototypes, Frederick (who disappeared) and Justice were humans. Justice was considered the "perfect gear" and was able to control other, lesser gears. Eventually, however, she got tired of her life of subservience and led a massive rebellion called the Crusades.
About one hundred years into the war, Kliff Undersn, and the two leads of the series, Sol Badguy and Ky Kiske, face off against Justice, and succeed in sealing her away, for what should’ve been an eternity. Time passes and the Sacred Order gets disbanded. Sol becomes a gear-chasing bounty hunter, Ky becomes the leader of the International Police Force, and Kliff’s adoptive son, Tetsu, betrays him, and voluntarily becomes a gear.
Kliff’s son, now named Testament, discovers that he can bring back Justice and win freedom and power for him and his Gear brethren. While he succeeds in bringing her back, his plans are halted when Sol Badguy appears, and single-handedly kills Justice. Even more time passes and word begins to spread of how there is a new command gear lurking around in a nearby forest, resulting in troves of wanted posters going up, offering a massive bounty for her head. This new, infinitely terrible commander gear turns out to be Dizzy, a young girl who was found and adopted by an elderly couple, but were forced to abandon her when she aged to looking about 15 when she was actually 3. She ends up fighting Sol Badguy who, after defeating her, decides she poses no real threat to the world and spares her. Shortly after, she is taken in by Johnny and May’s pirate crew.
Last year at E3 2005, Sammy Studios showed off Guilty Gear Judgment, but only showed off the ‘Boost Mode.’ Apparently, a small Eastern European nation named Villtania has been utterly decimated by hordes of monsters (in all likelihood, Gears) and a man named Raimond is at the center of it all. As such, a large bounty is put out, which once again leads the cast of characters together. The overall gameplay of Boost Mode boils down to being a new, side-scrolling beat-em-up adventure that pits the main Guilty Gear cast against each other as well as various gears. While this turned out to be a cool, fast-paced mini-game, the real meat of the game is how Guilty Gear Judgment is actually a port of what is arguably the best game in the series, Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (currently out on the Xbox, and our review can be found in the Xbox section) #Reload turned out to be one of the deepest, most fast-paced and overall most impressive fighting games on the Xbox, and Sammy did an incredible job porting it. The game has the same highly detailed and very clear sprites which look pretty much just as good as the original. Sound also remains entirely intact, with the same heavy metal music, quality voice acting, and excellent sound effects found in #Reload.
There’s so much content in Judgment, it’ll easily give gamers dozens of hours of enjoyment. On top of the Boost mode, it also features all the various play modes like Arcade, M.O.M., and survival mode. The most important, however, is the wi-fi multiplayer option. This will allow the same high-speed and incredibly addictive multiplayer that will allow newcomers to be utterly trounced by veterans of the series (before even considering a victory over experienced players, in all likelihood, newcomers will be needing to download combo videos, match videos and spend many hours in training mode to perfect their techniques). Even if the steep learning curve deters people away from the online mode, it is still more than worth buying for the single player enjoyment.
Guilty Gear Judgment is slated for release May 1, 2006 and will certainly be worth the wait.
Stay with www.mygamer.com as more details are revealed.
Preview by Steven Rondina on 3 Feb 2006
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