Official Guilty Gear 2: Overture characters list

Pre-Order Guilty Gear 2: Overture for Xbox 360Guilty Gear 2: Overture is a complete re-imagining of the Guilty Gear franchise that takes the series in some surprising directions and is expected for release in the U.S. on September 30th (set for fall 2008) for the Xbox 360.

The game is a mix of third-person action a la Devil May Cry 4 and real-time strategy (yes, RTS) elements as well as some other mixtures for something completely different than what fighting fans would expect from the Guilty Gear name. It’s also super fast paced and just as crazy as ever.

The game features troops that you can control in order to take points of a map or destroy that level (or your opponents, up to four in online multiplayer) Master Ghost unit.

There is a cast of six playable characters in Guilty Gear 2: Overture who are your “Commanders”. As well as two other characters featured in the game.

Click on the pictures of each character’s artwork (or name) below to see a much larger picture pop up.

Playable Characters:

1. Dr. Paradigm
Dr. Paradigm Guilty Gear 2: Overture Character Artwork
Dr. Paradigm (voice actor: Yuji Mikimoto) is a sentient Gear that is styled after a Chinese dragon. He carries around a book of magic spells and along with some fellow Gears was sealed away in The Backyard so that Justice could not control him.

2. Izuna
Izuna Guilty Gear 2: Overture Character Artwork
Izuna (voice actor: Toru Furusawa) is a the spirit of a fox who was exiled from “The Backyard”, another plane of existence. Izuna first appears as a voice in Sol and Sin’s heads when they are attacked by a mysterious new enemy. He teaches Sol about the new enemy (which acts as the game’s tutorial) and later travels the lands with Sol and Sin.

3. Ky Kiske
Ky Kiske Guilty Gear 2: Overture Character Artwork
Ky Kiske (voice actor: Takeshi Kusao) is Sol’s long-time rival. In Guilty Gear 2: Overture Ky has grown in his appearance since earlier games and he is now the King of Illyuria. In addition to having 3D versions of his attacks, he wields a new sword in this game.

4. Sin
Sin Guilty Gear 2: Overture Character Artwork
Sin (voice actor: Issei Miyazaki) is a young man who accompanies Sol throughout the game. He battles with a flag and pole as his weapons of choice and is the son of Ky Kiske who fathered him with a female Gear. He is the target of Valentine due to the fact that he can be used a sthe Key due to his Gear cells. Sin doesn’t get along with his father Ky, but has a deep effection for his mother.

5. Sol Badguy
Sol Badguy Guilty Gear 2: Overture Character Artwork
Sol Badguy (voice actor: George Nakata) is the main character of the Guilty Gear series and is a Gear prototype. In Guilty Gear 2: Overture, Sol Badguy has been given an all-new look, as well as 3D versions of some of his special attacks. You will see Sol’s Gear form when he confronts “That Man” (See “Other Characters” below).

6. Valentine
Valentine Guilty Gear 2: Overture Character Artwork
Valentine (voice actor: Chie Sawaguchi) is a young women who is dressed up as a Japanese “gothic lolita”. She speaks in a simple manner but battles with a balloon dubbed Lucifero. Valentine is looking for something called “The Key”. That key, as you read above, is the child of Justice who has married Ky Kiske and thus is the son of Ky: Sin, who has inherited his mother’s cells. Valentine is racing against That Man so she can reach an object that is only known as “The Cube”. And which can only be accessed by (what else?) The Key. Valentine is one of the main antagonists in the game.

Other Characters:

7. Raven

Raven (voice actor: Hiroki Yasumoto) is only one of three servants to That Man. Little is known about Raven, but he does share some kind of connection with Axl Low. A connection that “That Man” describes as being a “parallel existence” with one another. Raven became a playable character in the Japanese version of Guilty Gear 2: Overture on June 5th, 2008 due to an official patch released over Xbox Live. I would be that he will also appear as a playable character in the U.S. version from the get go.

8. That Man

That Man (voice actor: Tomokazu Sugita) is the shadowy figure of the Guilty Gear universe. His identity has remained a secret and no one truly knows who he is, except for his servant “I-no”. However everyone does know one thing about “That Man”, he is the “Gear Maker”. And in Guilty Gear 2: Overture, The Man is on hand to test the true extent of Sol Badguy’s abilities as a Gear.

Here is the latest trailer for Guilty Gear 2: Overture to give you a better idea of how the game plays.