14 DAY TRIAL // New fighting-game news is always welcomed, but to hear that a new Guilty Gear should soon surface is far beyond words to describe. Taking a little pre-Christmas stroll down to the NowGamer offices, Tomo Ohno, the Business Development director for Arc System Works, unveiled the upcoming GG game while talking about the possibility of a crossover for the company's BlazBlue and Guilty Gear. “Personally I don’t like that idea,” Ohno said.
“What we can say about Guilty Gear is that it is not dead yet. It has not ended. The producer/creator of Guilty Gear, Daisuke Ishiwatari, his comment for this meeting [was] ‘I have the full intention to create Guilty Gear for PS3 and 360.’”
Still, even if Guilty Gear will come to the PS3 and Xbox 360 as a main title, the chances of a mash-up aren't completely null. “It’s a different world – it’s not BlazBlue taking over Guilty Gear, but Guilty Gear is an important thing for us and we want to make sure fans of Guilty Gear continue to have fun in that world.”
While the Guilty Gear is a very well known and very popular series, there haven't been a lot of proper installments in the franchise. There have been plenty of revisited additions and spin-offs, brought to the handheld consoles as well as on the main ones, but the big games aren't all that many in numbers.
The last title release in the series is Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which came to Europe in 2009, in North America in 2008, while the original Japanese release came out on the Xbox 360 in 2007. And, as far as BlazBlue goes, while the game got a 2009 release in both Japan and America, it will arrive in Europe next year, on February 1. “BlazBlue is a new thing, and there might be some crossover but at the moment we don’t have any plans,” Ohno concluded.