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.: July 18, 2002.: September 16, 2002.: November 29, 2002Mode(s)Gungrave ( ガングレイヴ, Gangureivu) is a developed and published by ( in North America and in Europe) for the. Gungrave follows its main character through a variety of stages on a path of revenge.While the game play received moderate reviews, Gungrave received acclaim for the character designs provided by series creator ( ) and mechanical designs provided by ( series, series, series). Both artist's respective styles helped give the game a distinct feel, which (along with fan support) helped Gungrave translate from a video game to an as well as a video game sequel for the entitled in 2004. Cinematics were provided by Ikusabune Co., Ltd., which developed the sequel with Red Entertainment's supervision. Contents.Gameplay As a third-person shooter, Gungrave focuses entirely on combat and forgoes the puzzle solving aspects of some of its forebears. The player advances through hallway-like stages, but has a free range of motion in these areas.
The player confronts wave after wave of fighters en route to an end-level boss. Combat varies between gunplay with enemies at a distance and simple melee combat at close range, and the game rates the amount of flair the player uses to destroy everyone and everything in sight.Beyond the Grave is equipped with a damage-absorbing energy shield that can absorb a large amount of damage in addition to his life bar. This shield appears as a blue bar alongside Beyond the Grave's life bar in the game's heads-up display. When the shield is fully depleted, the player is highly vulnerable and further damage reduces the character's health level rapidly. However, the shield will recharge fully if no damage is sustained for a brief period of time.By performing well during stages, the player can unlock special attacks such as machine guns or rockets launched from the on Beyond the Grave's back. These can be used by charging the beat meter which is represented by a skull on the top left corner of the game's heads-up display. To build the beat meter, Beyond the Grave must perform combos sometimes numbering in hundreds of hits (destroying enemies or practically anything in the game environment).
Strategy is required in setting up combos that are as long and devastating as possible, which helps to carry on the over-the-top action of the game.Stages and some important events within stages are separated by anime cut-scenes featuring art by Nightow. This is where the game's story takes place. Characters are expanded on and the player is given a that is not obvious through gameplay alone.Weapons. Main article:Formerly Brandon Heat, Grave was once a high ranking and trusted member of the Millennion leadership.Gungrave opens shortly after his resurrection, fifteen years after his death. Throughout the game Grave's past is told through the use of flashbacks in the form of anime cutscenes as Grave recovers his memories. Grave is a silent protagonist, receiving his mission and carrying it out without a word.
As a result of his transformation into an undead soldier, his body must be sustained by periodic blood transfusions or else he becomes weak and his body will collapse.Grave has an important trait that makes him stand out from other models of Deadmen from his generation: he possesses a sense of self and will of his own. He also retains a small portion of his memories as a human, which he regains over the span of the game.Brandon entered the organization with his friend Harry and both shared a strong bond from their childhood. While a member of Millennion, Brandon also shared a bond with Big Daddy, looking up to him as a father. Eventually, Brandon was forced to choose between supporting Harry in a coup or protecting the group's leader; he is killed for deciding not to side with his friend.Allies Dr.
T - Voiced by:The kindly yet enigmatic Dr. T is Grave's main source of support throughout the game. He both provides Grave with information that he acquires through his own channels and provides Grave with treatments that sustains his body.
The doctor has a connection to Brandon from his time in Millennion and has his own reasons for wanting to see the group see its end. The doctor's connection is that he was the lead researcher for Harry's undead soldier program. During the intermission sequences, the player can choose to let Dr. T talk and provide some information about the upcoming stage and reflect on the past until his death while Grave is in the middle of a blood transfusion.Mika Asagi - Voiced by:The thirteen-year-old daughter of Grave's former love, Maria and Big Daddy. Mika seeks out Grave for protection after her parents' deaths and provides Grave with his guns so that he can set out. During the intermission sequences of the game, the player can choose to let Mika talk about current events and things that her mother told her about Brandon and Millennion. After the death of Dr.
T, Mika picks up where he left off and attempts to support Grave over a two way radio.Mika trusts Grave completely, regarding him as the only family she has left.Over the course of the game it comes to light as to why this girl is someone precious and important to Grave—a promise between Maria and him (when he was still Brandon) to look after and protect her child, one of the few memories Grave retains of his past life.Millennion Maria Asagi - Voiced by:Maria was Brandon's sweetheart when they were young. She is also Mika's mother.
After his entrance into Millennion, Brandon rejected her so that she would go to Big Daddy and be provided for. The two still remained close, and she took care of the Cerberus after Brandon's murder. She told her daughter that if there was ever a grave situation where her life was in danger, she should seek out the man that can use them for protection. The game opens after her death.Harry McDowell - Voiced by:Harry is the ruthless head of Millennion, and was Brandon's childhood friend. Harry kills Brandon just before he launches his coup of Millennion.
He is the only Millenion leader to not have a transformation, and is not fought as a boss.Bob Poundmax - Voiced by:This extremely heavy-set and boorish man is the first member of the Millennion leadership to challenge Grave. His first reaction to seeing Grave is to berate him for the ingratitude he now shows towards the group he once dedicated his life to (ignoring that this is also how he met his demise).
In his second form, Bob resembles from the original 1984. Initially Bob attacks Grave with a sub-machine gun, and four dark-suited enemies attack alongside him. He proves more agile than one would assume, jumping and using his size as a weapon.
'Killing' him causes him to shift to overkill mode. After his first encounter with Bob, Grave runs outside to see a helicopter take off with Harry inside it. However, the transformed Bob Poundmax blocks his path, offended that Grave would forget about him.
Bob now uses a special suit to help him float and again uses his girth to try to crush Grave. He is easily dispatched and finished off with a variation on the Hellhound Roar.Balladbird Lee Voiced by:Grave's second opponent, Lee is responsible for killing Dr. T and kidnapping Mika in order to lure Grave into a trap. His primary concern seems to be avenging Bob Poundmax. Initially, Lee appears to be an Asian male wearing clothes that are Manchu in style. His overkill mode resembles the from 's. While pursuing Mika's kidnappers, Grave finds and boards a train.
The train immediately starts to move, and Grave fights from car to car, eventually fighting a helicopter that attacks from outside. After Grave destroys the helicopter, Lee opens the door and states that he does not believe that Grave could have killed Bob and that he will avenge his friend. He then throws Mika out the door, and the train crashes. In the wreckage of the train, the transformed Lee assaults Grave in the debris of the crash. During the fight, Bunji Kugashira watches from the sidelines, having saved Mika from her fall.
Grave finishes Lee with a modified Bullet Dance. After this fight, Mika passes on the ominous message that his next opponent will meet Grave at 'the tower'.Bear Walken - Voiced by:Grave's third opponent, Bear Walken, resides in a dojo built on the roof of an office building. Bear is an older man and solidly built. After Grave reaches the top, the serene atmosphere belies the fight that is to come. He transforms into his first attack form and levels everything on the rooftop immediately after greeting Grave. In contrast to the noble kimono he wore moments before the battle, Walken now has several arms, each fitted with a different weapon (machine guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers). The dojo has been completely destroyed and the fight takes place on the now flat roof of the office building where the stage took place.
When you disarm Walken, he transforms again. In this new form, Walken has one massive and one small arm. He throws debris, smashes the ground, and lunges at Grave. When he is close to death, Grave defeats him with a modified Deathblow.
Immediately following Walken's defeat, the top portion of the tower is destroyed and Bunji Kugashira appears, telling Grave to recover his memory more quickly. Grave falls to the ground and finds himself standing before a long-forgotten cathedral.Bunji Kugashira - Voiced by:Once Grave's student and trusted friend, Bunji became Harry's second-in-command in Grave's absence.
Bunji is extremely similar to Grave, right down to fighting style. He wants nothing more than to duel with his rival. Physically, he bears a passing resemblance to. Bunji does not transform into Overkill Mode like the three bosses before him, but does not need to (it's said that he is always in overkill mode, just that his body doesn't change). Bunji has several attacks, including his own powerful handguns, a kick to avoid close-range combat, and his own Graveyard Special.
He can also regenerate health if he is given a chance to rest. Grave finishes the fight with an improvised Raging Inferno. Bunji is left against a wall of the cathedral with a in his mouth. He thanks Grave for defeating him, wishes him luck, and comments that he wishes things could go back to the way they used to be. As his cigarette dies, his body begins to dissolve until there is no trace left.Big Daddy - Voiced by:Once the leader of Millennion, Gungrave starts shortly after the coup that ended his reign. Big Daddy is shown scarcely through cut scenes, but it is apparent that he was close to Brandon.
He helped to raise Maria, and the two were eventually wed. In a cutscene, he says that he has achieved all that he had ever wanted to, and now wants to enjoy his success with his wife and unborn daughter. While the player is led to believe that Big Daddy had been killed before the start of the game, Harry had more sinister plans for him. Using the technology that created his undead soldiers, Harry turned Big Daddy into a mutant, who was held at the top of his tower.
When Grave confronts Harry, he is captured by this creature, who pursues him through an endless tunnel. Grave shoots it while keeping out of its reach, and eventually performs a Hellhound Roar/Deathblow combo to finish him. After his defeat, a larger creature, known as Alien Head, devours Big Daddy's body and attempts to do the same to Grave. After the fight, Grave pulls out all the stops and uses each of his four special attacks in his final Graveyard Special.Development The game was inspired by multiple action films most notably 's. The gameplay was developed in order to be unique rather than a typical action game. Character designer Nightow was attending a convention in America and was approached by Red Entertainment during conception of the game which highly influenced their title.
Sequel Two years after, adds new playable characters to the series and a new story.In 2017, Korean developers Iggymob and, under the supervision of Red Entertainment, revived the series and released Gungrave VR for the in late 2017 in Japan and late 2018 in North America and Europe. Gungrave VR serves as a prologue to a new sequel titled,. Gunslinger Of REsurrection, which is in development for the. Reception ReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScore65/100Review scoresPublicationScore5/106.83/104/1030/407/10D+5.1/10GameZone7.6/10(US) 8/10(JP) 5/10A−65%The game received 'mixed' reviews according to the website, due in most part to its short length and minimal replay value. The stylings of creators (of fame) and (of and fame) gave the game a very distinct and unique look and feel that impressed many critics. Smith, David (July 15, 2002).
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