Guilty Gear XX Accent Core

Guilty about your Wii

Choice cuts, and bruises, in this essential 2D fighter for Wii. But you won’t be getting involved until February 2008.

Nintendo Wii gets its first reputable fighter early next year, with a typically impenetrable name: “Guilty Gear XX Accent Core”. This is a no-nonsense (you’re supposed to play it seriously) two-dimensional, cartoon style animated game in the vein of the seminal Street Fighter series. However while Capcom’s brawler awaits its first true sequel in a decade, Street Fighter IV, Guilty Gear has emerged as the cream of the crop.

Of course these kind of antics usually enjoy niche appeal at best, even in Japan where fighting games continue to swell the gaming centres. It’ll mean nothing to most of our readers that there are two new fighters “A.B.A.” and “Order-Sol”, out of a roster comprising more than 20. You won’t know what the hell we’re talking about mentioning alternate EX versions of all characters either. It doesn’t matter.

Just know that there will be no finer 2D fighter available for Nintendo Wii when Guilty Gear XX Whatever, Whatever rolls into town. Although you fight by waving the Wii remote around and the nunchuck, you could be lured into the world of precision combo control and split-second reversal attacks before you know it.

Our favourite niche-appeal gurus, 505 Games, will publish Guilty Gear XX Accent Core for Nintendo Wii in the UK next February.