The usually brilliant Soul Calibur series has made its appearance on Wii in the form of a spin-off adventure game, but, unfortunately for Nintendo fans, word is it's not up to scratch.
The latest issue of Nintendo Power, the official Nintendo Magazine in the US, has published the first review for the game - a small, easily missed column at the back of the reviews section - with a score of just 6.5 out of 10. Oh dear.
An in depth look into the Soul series and their history of guest characters spanning 12 characters, 7 games and 14 years.
Bonus Soul Calibur guest character wallpaper included!
Great read. I can't wait for Ezio Auditore da Firenze to make his appearance in Soul Calibur V. Resquiat en Pace fighters!
Yes i agree he will a perfect fit into any fighting game he has soo many skills and weapons up hit sleave.
Woah.. Kos Mos was in a Soul Calibur title? I never even knew she made any cameos outside of the xenogears series.
Is Xenogears a part of the Xenosaga story? I always thought they were separate series'.
An amazing article so much work has gone into this .. this is something that all soul calibur fans should check out
Soul Calibur Vs Tekken...I honestly don't know which I'd rather. I like Soul's fighting system more but Tekken has way better characters.
But then again, I think Tekken has more strategy to it, it's a bit easy to end up button mashing in Calibur sometimes, but that's half the fun I guess. lol
It’s not yet known whether Soul Calibur V will continue the tradition of format-exclusive special characters, but for the purpose of this top ten feature those from previous versions will be excluded. Only those characters which make up part of the core experience will be eligible, even if some of them have oddly appeared in the Tekken series also.
and considering that SC5 is 17 years in the future, the only girls that wont be saggy are talim and amy, everyone else is gonna be old
Wow, Amy's gonna be 31 in SC5. She was a cool character because as a 14 year old she was small and nimble. Guess not anymore :/
Well, Ivy would be 40 something in this game, Woman in their 40ies can still look hot if they work out (Jeri Ryan, Catherine Bell).
So i suppose Ivy could show up in this game as a Hot mature woman or something.
Top 10...Thats easy, start at the one with the biggest boobs as the number one, and so on.
If Ivy is in this game, her boobs will be hanging a bit lower then we are used to from her tho.
Considering this game is 17 years after the last one.
Glad to see Yoshimitsu at #4. Dude has been a beast in every SC game so far.
Jon Lynch: "Soul Calibur is easily one of the most popular fighting series in gaming and has been since the franchise first debuted as Soul Blade (or Soul Edge) in arcades. There’s no denying that one of the many factors of Soul Calibur that helps bolster the popularity are the female characters. Over the years, the women of Soul Calibur have slowly clawed their way up to the top of gaming to sit alongside the likes of the Dead or Alive women."
Alissa Kiss is the best western cosplayer ever. I still think her Cammy beats this though.
first time I've ever seen an asian Sophitia. Me likey. Wait, is she the same as cassandra?
Cassandra and Sophitia are too different characters. At one point Cassandra replaced Sophitia. I think they're sisters. To the google machine!
I lost all respect for her when she jumped from doing good old fashioned cosplay to doing "adult" modeling. Cosplay is ok because it's not over the line, but she lost my respect. Now back to these ladies, ha.
She had no problems posing for me.
Want me to send you some of the photo's? ;)
It is not that bad if we consider that Assassin's Creed got the same score from IGN UK... :)
This game has failure written all over it. Look at those bland environments and ugly assets. (The jade dragon looks impressive, though)
this is soul caliber were talking about, I guess nothing will ever duplicate the success of the original Dreamcast version.
Something is wrong here...this is soul caliber right?
This game isp robably better on the PS3 anyways.
I'm one of the elite few who value what the Wii is doing despite also loving the graphical powers of the PS3, and I knew this game has "Death by Degree" suck written all over it.
It wasn't even on my top 20 wanted Wii games list.
It's ok, I'll have the new Trauma Center on Tuesday, which anyone who loves games that require quick thinking and reflexes will just eat up.
Wasn't going to buy it anyways it has the ugly PS3 graphical limitations making it look like sh*t. Like they didn't even try to take advantage of the 360's hardware like the other multi platform games.
NOTE: I havn't looked at any Wii pics I'm talking about the other versions.