Gungrave G.O.R.E

GameGrinJase Taylor

7/10

Gungrave G.O.R.E suffers from old style linear gameplay tropes — while the combat is fluid, the constant enemy waves over 12-14 hours quickly lose any sense of joy. Lack of available exploration also means you really only have the boss fights to look forward to.

Steam Deck HQNoah Kupetsky

7/10

Gungrave G.O.R.E. is a stylish third-person shooter filled gory action. And luckily, this is one we can now enjoy on the Steam Deck.

TheSixthAxisGareth Chadwick

6/10

Gungrave G.O.R.E is a decent game. It's not the best shooter, but it is often very entertaining if just for the spectacle. It has a few issues, mostly in level design, and the story isn't particularly memorable, but there's plenty of fun to be had in chainsawing your enemies with a transforming coffin.

Final WeaponBusterSwordBoy

The PS2 series has returned with modernized controls, but old problems. Simple but satisfying gunplay wrapped in a stylish package is marred by a padded runtime, uneven presentation, and poorly done localization. Gungrave G.O.R.E's promising start transforms into a slog to its finish through bullet sponges, bad encounter design, and worse platforming.

Game RantJessica Hoops

5/10

Despite its shortcomings, there’s something undeniably enjoyable and nostalgic about Gungrave G.O.R.E’s straightforward, no-nonsense approach to the action/shooter genre. The game’s promotional trailers repeatedly promised three things—bullets, beauty, and “a badass” anti-hero protagonist—and it delivers these attributes in spades.

GamingBoltShubhankar Parijat

5/10

Gungrave G.O.R.E's fleeting moments of fun and carnage are buried beneath a mountain of issues, including a bland story, repetitive and overly simplistic gameplay, cumbersome and clunky movement and controls, and more. This isn't an old school game- it's just old.

eXputerAsad Ahmed

If I had to sum up this title in two words, it would be “mindless fun”. Just don’t expect a solid and overarching story or multi-dimensional characters.

Capsule ComputersAdmir Brkic

4/10

The only impressive thing about this game is how it fails miserably on every front. Who was this for, and what was the idea behind it - all those questions will remain unanswered.

GamereactorPetter Hegevall

3/10

There's definitely value in backing up, trimming away all the novelties, and just focusing on heavy, frantic third-person action at a fast pace, but it needs to be done a lot better than this. Gungrave Gore costs $50 for PlayStation 5, and it must be considered a belated April Fool's joke in every way imaginable. Had this been released on Android for nine bucks, it would have seemed just about right.

I was really looking forward to Gungrave G.O.R.E. While I’m not deeply invested in the series, I enjoyed Gungrave: Overdose on the PlayStation 2 as an entertaingly trashy B-action exprerience. Unfortunately, while I do admire the attempt to give players the power fantasy of playing as a guy so utterly, brutally powerful that he can calmly walk through a bullet ballet, Gungrave G.O.R.E burns its goodwill far too quickly and from there it’s too exhausting to bother with.

WayTooManyGamesAaron Price

2.5/10

It’s always a treat when games return from the dead. The most recent example being Gungrave returning from its PS2 roots and making its debut in 2022, eighteen years after the last entry in the series. Well, eighteen years if you don’t include the VR game that released, which I’m almost certain you didn’t know about. Gungrave G.O.R.E. returns to the original style of third-person action, but the question remains, did the series need to make a return in modern day?

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

Unscored

GunGrave G.O.R.E from a distance looks like it should be a competent action game, but its shooting, special attacks, stuns, and presentation are all disappointingly frustrating and never feel functional. While it’s not the worst game I’ve ever completed, it certainly ranks up there.