1UP Previews Guilty Gear 2: Overture

1UP writes: "Imagine that the fifth Street Fighter game has been revealed, only it’s an on-rails shooter in the vein of Panzer Dragoon. While ridiculous to think about, that’s the situation we have with Guilty Gear 2: Overture. Since the Guilty Gear X games had, well, an "X" in their names, they apparently weren’t the real follow-ups to the original 1997 Guilty Gear. GG2O is a canonical follow-up, and rather than being a one-on-one fighter, it’s a hybrid of real-time strategy games and third-person hack-and-slashers like Dynasty Warriors.

The single-player story takes place several years after the events of the original Guilty Gear game, and focuses on Sol Badguy, one of the main protagonists of the series, who is now a drifter roaming the land with his apprentice, Sin. Sin looks a lot like GG’s other hero, Ky Kiske, but Ky is actually elsewhere in the world, now a king whose land is under attack by unknown hostile creatures. Sol runs into the weird enemies too, and meets up with a spirit named Izuna, who becomes a second companion and teaches Sol how to defeat and harness the power of these foes".