Guilty Gear X - Advance Edition

The fight system has a four-main-attack-button configuration: punch, kick, slash and heavy slash. "}},"i":0}}]}'> Players may also launch taunt attacks, with their main objective to reduce the opponent's health to zero in a predetermined time. To win a fight a player must accumulate two points, with each round won earning a point. Guilty Gear X has features common in fighting games: combos , aerial attacks and counterattacks.

A new feature is the Roman Cancel, which allows a player to cancel their move and its aftereffects to make other attacks. The game has a tension gauge, increasing when a character causes damage or moves toward an adversary and decreasing when a character moves backwards or is stopped for a long time. When the gauge is half-charged a player can use specials called Overdrive Attacks, which cause more damage than regular moves. html | archive-date=October 6, 2003 | access-date=January 11, 2015}}</ref>"}},"i":0}}]}'> if an Instant Kill is unsuccessful, the tension gauge will not charge for the remainder of that round.

Guilty Gear X ' s Dreamcast version includes four modes of play: Arcade, the game's primary narrative mode; Survival , in which the player fights through infinite levels until they are defeated; Training, which allows a player to practice moves with the help of an in-game move list and Versus, in which a player can fight another player. Guilty Gear X Plus also has art-gallery and story modes; according to the Sega website, the latter explains "misteries" which the Dreamcast version does not. The Advance Edition includes tag-team and three-on-three modes; each player chooses two or three characters, respectively, and can switch characters during a fight.