Japanese video game news site Game Jouhou has revealed that the arcade follow up to the excellent fighting game Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign is coming to the Sony Playstation 4 and Playstation 3 entertainment systems in the spring of 2016. Called Guilty Gear Xrd: -Revelator-, the game is an update that has all of the prior content, rebalances to the game engine and three characters. Joining the current roster in the heavy metal martial arts masterpiece are new contestant Jack-O and returning favorites Johnny and Jam Kuradoberi.
In addition to this news, Arc System Works revealed they will be releasing a special DLC color set for Guilty Gear Xrd: Sign in recognition of the game topping 100,000 sales in Japan. The DLC will be available for free starting in early October of 2015 and will remain so until early January 2016. Here are a few samples you can click on to whet your appetites in the meantime.
This is great news for Guilty Gear fans, and this popular series has long been a passion project for Arc Systems Works so it’s good to see them continue to tool with it, add new content and provide fighting game enthusiasts the world over a worthy contender in the genre. It’s definitely one of the best fighters to come out in a long time. If you like fighting games and you haven’t tried this one yet, you’re really missing out on something special.
Guilty Gear Xrd: -Revelator- is currently in arcades and will be released for the Sony Playstation 4 and Playstation 3 entertainment systems some time in spring of 2016. No confirmation of a western release for either –Revelator- or the costume DLC yet, but this news is still very fresh so it would not at all be surprising to see an announcement for a North American and European launch soon.
