Gungrave
A third-person shooter developed and published by Red Entertainment (Sega in North America and Activision in Europe) for the PlayStation 2. Gungrave follows its main character through a variety of stages on a…
Gungrave is a shooter developed by Red Entertainment, released 18 July 2002 on PlayStation 2.
What Gungrave is
Gungrave is a shooter game developed by Red Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Activision Publishing. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game opens with the young girl dragging an oversized attaché case toward a warehouse with difficulty. "Bloody" Harry Macdowell has just carried out a coup against Big Daddy, the leader of the Millennion organization, and his daughter Mika needs to find someone that can protect her and stop Harry's mad plans. The occupants of this warehouse include a kindly looking old doctor, and a man with a notable scar on his face. Mika arrives, and the man with the scar claims the contents of the case: two massive handguns. That man is revealed to be the game's title character Grave, and now that he is armed he can start his mission. Gungrave first approaches its stages as a series of missions…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Gungrave series
Gungrave is the first of 5 entries we hold in the Gungrave series. The next entry was Gungrave VR in 2017. Its critic score of 40 is 4 points below the series average of 44. The highest-rated entry is Gungrave G.O.R.E at 56.
How it was received
Gungrave holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 28 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Gungrave launched on 18 July 2002, within three weeks of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine and SoulCalibur II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, Super Mario Sunshine, SoulCalibur II.
Official trailer
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