Hmm.. I shall use my force power to remove her bra
Oops, how embarrassing, my bra slipped off.The graphics in this game is certainly gorgeous. Vibrant and colourful stages are available for you to fight in and character design are done nicely, that also means for the female characters, well lets just say their voluptuous body are much more defined. A reasonable amount of gamemodes are available some of which are Story mode, Tower of Lost Souls (basically a short or long depending on the level story mode without the story), training mode and so on. There are also quite a number or unlockables though I must say for me, it's a bit too little. Those of you who might know the SC series will know that you can also customise your character in this game, buying accessories and weapons to ultimately make your character stronger. If that is not enough, there is currently one download from Xbox live (it will cause you 150 microsoft points i think) to get a few more items from previous Soul Calibur games.So, you also have the option to customize your character. Putting on accessories and dress aret just to make your character prettier or funny, they also add effects and determine how much skill points you can spend. For the 360, more items can be unlocked through completing achievements.Apart from that, Soul Calibur has a somewhat different story mode. In most fighting games, you advance through levels fighting one enemy at a time. Soul Calibur focusses on fighting 3 maybe four enemy per level. This means your health will not recover until you have vanquished all enemies. Further more, if you are skill or lucky enough to smack your opponent out of the ring, you will win in an instant. Though this complicates things for you as well as some of your moves may involve dashing around and may mean dashing out of the ring. Though once you have won, you can celebrate by jumping off the ring. Yes, you will not lose.
Now some of you might still be wondering the Special guest characters. I might not have mentioned that both the 360 and PS3 will get another guest character, The Apprentice a character from the upcomin game; Star Wrs Unleashed. Now between Darth Vader and Yoda, though I cant exactly tell you how good he is on the count I do not own a PS3 but I do hear that he is quite balanced. As for Yoda, as you may imagine, it is slightly harder to hit him due to his height. He also has a nice string of combos which can be pulled of easily meaning the buttons to initiate the combo is not too complicated.
Oh you think THAT hurt?Finally, as you can imagine for most other fighting games, Soul Calibur has not much of a story. Every characters story made differs a little but still ends up about the same at the final level. Though having said that, I am not exactly affected by it as for most fighting games, all I am concerned about is fighting. Aside from that, most of you may also know that most fighting games have horrible voice acting and Soul Calibur is no exception. Also, some charater's scripts/ lines sounds a little tacky.FINAL WORDS:Despite some of it's flaws, Soul Calibur is an awesome game. The interface is beautiful, everything works well. The music is also great, featuring many orchestrated sound tracks and not to mention playable characters from Star Wars are enough to keep you entertained from a fair amount of time. Plus, Soul Calibur is those type of quick games meaning anytime you are bored, you can just pop the game in the disc and kill time instantly.Presentation (9/10): Beautiful graphics and interface had already done it's job to draw me to this game.
Graphics (9/10): Stunning environment, great lighting and rendering work
Sound (6/10): Soundtrack may be great but the voice acting is what really gets to me
Gameplay (8/10): Controls definitely works well, nice string of combos you can perform
Lasting appeal (8/10): As a fighting game, it is the type you can play once in a while for a long timeOverall: (40/50)