Gungrave: Overdose
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North American cover art
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| Developer(s) | Ikusabune Co., Ltd. |
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| Director(s) | Naohito Hanai |
| Producer(s) | Tōru Kubo |
| Designer(s) | Tomohiro Maruyama Takashi Hata |
| Programmer(s) | Naohito Hanai |
| Artist(s) | Yasuhiro Nightow (character design) |
| Writer(s) | Hidenori Tanaka Takashi Hino Tomohiro Maruyama Toshio Akashi |
| Composer(s) | Tsuneo Imahori |
| Series | [*] |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gungrave: Overdose (ガングレイヴO.D. Gangureivu Ōbādōsu?) is a PlayStation 2 third-person shooter video game developed by animation studio Ikusabune and published by Red Entertainment in Japan and by Mastiff in North America. The game was released on March 4, 2004 in Japan, September 15, 2004 in North America and October 7, 2005 in the PAL regions. Gungrave: Overdose picks up where its predecessor left off, follows its main character through a variety of stages on a path of revenge. It is the only known title fully developed by Ikusabune, as the previous title was developed by Red Entertainment.
Two years after the original, Gungrave, and just approaching of that game's anime spinoff, Gungrave: Overdose was released. Preserving Yasuhiro Nightow's flair and artistic style, this outing adds new playable characters to the series and a new story, in which Grave resumes his tale as an unlikely anti-hero tracking down the sadistic son of a Mafia boss who has struck a deal with a symbiotic seed bent on taking over the Earth.
The main protagonist of the story, Grave is reawakened by an older Mika Asagi. Sporting a new outfit, a new Coffin, and even more firepower than before, Grave silently goes forth to destroy the Seed narcotics empire controlled by the Corisione family. Before his disappearance, he breaks his "silent protagonist" character by making only one sentence, "You must live, Mika".
In gameplay terms, Beyond The Grave is the most rounded of the three protagonists, possessing damaging ranged and melee attacks. He is also able to dive forward, backwards, or to either side while rapidly firing both pistols, as well as charge his pistol shots or melee hits to deliver powerful single attacks.
A foul-mouthed, irritable man with a superhuman sense of smell, Jyuji and his partner Rocketbilly Redcadillac joins Grave early on to fight Seed. Seemingly cursed with a spectral flame that burns on his back, Jyuji employs a pair of semi-automatic gunblades and a control over fire in combat. He's blind, but the mask he wears on his face also serves another purpose - to hide the skin that's gnarled by Seed beneath. However, despite his edged exterior, he seems to know more than he wishes to reveal. He was returned into a deadman and experimented on by Garino before injecting him with Seed and leaving him to die, with only a meditation technique saving him from dying again. This effectively makes him part Seed part Deadman with a precarious balance; allowing him to survive without blood transfusions but if the balance is disrupted, something grave may happen.
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