Xbox and PC fans can get ready to rock, as Guilty Gear Strive is ready for them. Xbox Game Pass subscribers can now play Guilty Gear Strive on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Windows PC as part of their subscription offering. The update was announced in a March 7, 2023 update posted to the Xbox Wire blog and the official Guilty Gear PR account. The game supports rollback netcode for online play, and cross-platform matchmaking.
The Game Pass version of Guilty Gear Strive on Xbox and PC supports both local installation via console or PC and cloud streaming via the ongoing beta client of Xbox Cloud Gaming. As for content, the version of the game offered via Game Pass is the standard edition that debuted in June 2021. That means it includes the launch roster, but no additional characters.
The launch roster consists of:
- Axl Low
- Anji Mito
- Chipp Zanuff
- Giovanna
- Faust
- I-No
- Ky Kiske
- Leo Whitefang
- May
- Millia Rage
- Nagoriyuki
- Potemkin
- Ramlethal Valentine
- Sol Badguy
- Zato-1
Players of the Game Pass edition of Guilty Gear: Strive will need to buy an edition that includes one or both of the Season Passes in order to play the following characters:
Season Pass 1
- Baiken
- Goldlewis Dickinson
- Happy Chaos
- Jack-O’
- Testament
Season Pass 2
- Bridget
- Sin Kiske
- Two more unannounced characters
Besides Guilty Gear Strive on Xbox and PC, other additions to the Game Pass library will be added in mid-March 2023. The EA Play service will add Cloud versions of Dead Space 2 and 3. Sid Meier’s Civilization VI and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom will arrive on console and PC. Console users will also be able to try a Game Preview edition of survival game Valheim, as well.
Guilty Gear Strive is available for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows PC.
Published: Mar 8, 2023 07:40 am