BlazBlue: Continuum Shift
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is a fighting game developed by Arc System Works as a direct sequel to BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. BlazBlue: Continuum Shift retains the traditional 2D fighter gameplay of two…
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is an arcade developed by Arc System Works, released 20 November 2009 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Arcade.
What BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is an arcade game developed by Arc System Works and released in 2009. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Arcade.
The premise, in the publisher's words
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is a 2D fighting game developed and published by Arc System Works. It came to arcades, before it was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was later released for the Taito Type X2 arcade system board, with a 1.66:1 aspect ratio and 1280 x 768 pixels (768p) resolution. Revisions entitled BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend were released in arcades between 2010 and 2011. They were later ported to the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo 3DS, and Windows. It is the second game of the main series.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the BlazBlue series
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift is the second of 11 entries we hold in the BlazBlue series. It arrived a year after BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. The next entry was XBlaze Code: Embryo in 2013. Its critic score of 85 is 10 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is BlazBlue: Entropy Effect X at 88.
How it was received
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 18 points above the year average.
What it launched against
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift launched on 20 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for BlazBlue: Continuum Shift yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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