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A "must play game," but must own?
Forget what you've read about being about to beat this one blindfolded, it's just not true. In addition to offering the most frentic anti-hero action this side of DMC, Gungrave's massively sprawling levels will certainly require your full attention span, all 6 of them that is. Yep, there's the rub folks. Gungrave is awesome, no doubt, but is there enough to warrant a purchase?Featuring outstanding cel-shaded graphics and character designs by the folks behind the hit anime series "Trigun," Gungrave certainly doesn't lack personality. In fact, the whole game is presented like an anime, with an entertaining albeit disposible plot unfolding via slick cutscenes, all of which are in japanese and subtitled in english! Gameplay wise Gungrave could be called shallow. Essentially shoot everything on screen using your impossibly large twin pistols, "Cerberos." There is a little depth here, a decent combo system, unlockable special attacks, a shield system, but chances are you will hardly notice with all the insane violence on screen. In fact, the action can get so intense the game will at times suffer slight slowdown, but in all fairness this effect will probably help your gameplay more than hinder it.So what we have is an arcade game that falls into all of the arcade game trappings, it's graphically superb but too short and not extremely difficult. However, as my rating implies, its charming characters and music should entertain. Don't write this one off! For anime fans, a must own title, for everyone else, at least rent this one. After all, sometimes you just need a game where all you do is blow stuff up!

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Just Shoot Everything
I played the Gungrave demo three or four times during a recent trip to Japan, and here are my impressions (bear in mind I only played through the first level):

The Good:
1 Really nice anime cut scenes.
2 Decent graphics.
3 Cool-looking moves.
4 There's just something fun about shooting EVERYTHING you can see.
5 If a John Woo made a game, this would be it.

The Bad:
1 You basically only need one button to play this game.
2 Difficulty is sort of non-existant, at least on the first level. It might get harder as it goes along, but given how many moves you have, it probably won't get any better.
3 As much fun as shooting everything and everybody is, it gets old. Fast. Though honestly the game probably isn't long enough for you to get REALLY sick of it.

The Ugly
1 In some ways, I consider myself lucky to have only played the first level. I don't know how well pressing "shoot" over and over and over again would hold up. It's to jump sideways while blasting away, or watch Grave spin around for no reason as he fires his guns, but if you've seen it once, you've seen it as much as you need to.
2 The game has some slow-down, especially when you fire the rocket launcher.

The Advice
1 If you played Devil May Cry, you'll be used to the pace of this game. Think DMC without any combos, missions, swords, challenging enemies, or classy background graphics. Throw in an anime cut scene or two and you have Gungrave. I really liked that the ads for it said "Get Ready To Genocide!" but uh... this one's a rental for sure. See the cool moves, beat it, return it.

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Get it right.
Ok let me clear this up, the gungrave anime came out AFTER Gungrave the PS2 game. The gungrave anime tells the story of Brandon Heat (Beyond the Grave), his dealings in the syndicate Millenion, how he was killed, and the deal with his "best friend" Harry, the current boss of Millenion. The show also explains everything about the orcmen and the technology used to bring the dead back to life, "Necro-rise". The show takes place before the game untill episode 17.

I would recommend watching the show first (DVD volume 1 is out in america right now, but its available through fansub if you can find it.), and then playing the game.