Soul Calibur for Wii

By Robert Purchese Published 14 May, 2007

Legends due in Winter.

Namco Bandai's revealed that the Wii will house a new Soul Calibur game this winter.

But unfortunately there's no world on a Euro-specific date yet.

Legends will follow the 16th century exploits of Siegfried and chums, as they battle for ultimate power and try to save the world from destruction. That old yarn.

You'll use the Wiimote and Nunchuck to fight, flailing your arms wildly to create special attacks and combination moves. And as you progress through the various stages you'll unlock master abilities and even earn yourself a nifty title, becoming a Knight or a Soldier.

There will be numerous modes to keep you occupied, although it isn't yet clear if one of these will be Wi-Fi multiplayer.

We'll keep you posted on what's promising to be a fresh take on a familiar universe.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

You may also like...

Comments (48) Latest comment 5 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

  • NOSAVIOUR #1 5 years ago

    Here is hoping its not gonna be shite....

    But it will be no doubt.
    Edited by 1 at 14/05/07 @ 16:42

  • AcidSnake #2 5 years ago

    Could be fun...
    The graphics of SCII on gamecube were already nice and pretty...
    Let's hope they don't screw it up...

  • The-Bodybuilder #3 5 years ago

    Hmmmmmmmmm

  • souljacker2000 #4 5 years ago

    If it looks anything like any of the other Wii games, its gota b shite
    Edited by 1 at 14/05/07 @ 16:46

  • Darren #5 5 years ago

    My fave version of SoulCalibur II was the GameCube version ('cos Link was in it) so the news of an exclusive Wii sequel fills me with joy... I'm just praying it turns out to be exceptional, something of a rarity with Wii games at the moment... :(

  • Lemming81 #6 5 years ago

    Why all the nay saying? The console has nothing to do with the fact that the Soul Calibur games have all been great.

    Will Mario Galaxy 'be shit' because it's out on the Wii? No.

    Don't let Ubisoft ruin the console for you.

  • Waldo #7 5 years ago

    But unfortunately there's no world on a Euro-specific date yet.

    Now there's a surprising development.

  • souljacker2000 #8 5 years ago

    Soul calibur has been good to date. Just Wii is crap

  • speedjack #9 5 years ago

    Making a good Wii version of this - or indeed any A+ francise is easy :-

    1. Integrate controls properly - don't shoe horn.

    2. Don't turn it into a short and unrewarding main game with 5,000 tacked on mini-games.

    3. Include online play

    That is all, Namco.

  • JayeM #10 5 years ago

    The Wii is now officialy the worst console I have ever owned, is that all they can come with "flailing your arms wildly to create special attacks and combination moves"?

  • speedjack #11 5 years ago

    Erm... Sorry JayeM, but it would be pretty stupid if they released one of the best melee based combat games without including motion sensing controls.

    ...and besides I can't take seriously the opinion of anyone that classes Spiderman 3 on the PS3 as their most wanted game

    ;-)

  • JediMasterMalik #12 5 years ago

    You guys realise this is an action adventure game and not a part of the main series right?

  • Nova5lag #13 5 years ago

    Woo Wii exclusives can only be a good thing!

  • JayeM #14 5 years ago

    :p

    I just mean that they sound very tacked on and I really should update that most wanted games list.

  • peak_performance #15 5 years ago

    The part about "flailing wildly" is obviously Eurogamers own wording. The motion control will of course be used, though, but nothing as of yet sounds tacked on. Mostly because absolutely nothing about the execution is known yet.

  • smelly #16 5 years ago

    Well I was excited by this game. But now the fanboy trolls have convinced me its going to be shit.

    Your job is done trolls.. you dont need to try to convince me any further.

  • Santino #17 5 years ago

    i'm more interested in this being an action adventure SC than if a regular fighting game had been announced. And for gods sake people come into any Wii related thread saying it has no games, then a new 3rd party exclusive that would never have happened on the n64 or GC is announced and like clockwork they enter telling everyone how crap it will be. Pathetic bunch of losers.

    edit: i assume this whole comments section will be ok to just copy and paste if an article is made about Rygar coming to wii exclusively too? in the meantime guess trolls can just carry on telling us that there is no 3rd party support?
    Edited by 1 at 14/05/07 @ 17:34

  • Chtulie #18 5 years ago

    Hey, it's not a port.

    And it being a weapons based fighting game might make it harder to screw up.

    If It's possible to make a stylus controlled Ninja Gaiden on the DS look promising, then there exist the possibility for this to be good, right?

  • bdc #19 5 years ago

    ASCII graphics

  • ratso #20 5 years ago

    this will be crap

    witness the shite that was death by degrees or that one with the cop and his dog.

    if this were a ps2 game with popper analog stick controls i might have slightly more faith.

    wii is ruining gaming.

  • ZeroAX #21 5 years ago

    "wii is ruining gaming."


    funny thing it actually got me playing consoles again other than pcs (gave 170 EUro for a ps2 that i played for under 50hours and most of them in multiplayer tekken)
    me and my gf and people who didn't play games. if you don't like it don't buy it but
    just don't tlak crap.


    though i have to say fighting series spin-offs is a tried and failed formula.

    mortal kombat springs to mind....

  • zendragon #22 5 years ago

    If it's no good, where are all the wiis going?

  • Xerx3s #23 5 years ago

    hmmm, No multiplatform? Odd.

  • smelly #24 5 years ago

    "wii is ruining gaming."

    If by ruining you mean - bringing an end to relying purely on endless generic fps/racing games - then yes you're right. The wii is crap.

  • The-Bodybuilder #25 5 years ago

    >"You guys realise this is an action adventure game and not a part of the main series right? "

    Are you sure?
    /interest raises.

  • smelly #26 5 years ago

    Yeah, from what i understand it's a free roaming adventure game, where you swing yer wiimote at bad guys.

    Sounds crap in theory, but this is namco (and not ubisoft) - so i have faith.

  • Xerx3s #27 5 years ago

    If by ruining you mean - bringing an end to relying purely on endless generic fps/racing games - then yes you're right. The wii is crap.

    Instead we get an endless supply of absolutely shit looking FPS games, bad ps2 ports and mini game compilations? I can think of great things that the wii can do but unfortunately, I have no seen anything innovating. The opposite in most games even. ATM I really can't think of a wii game that sets the mark for what games should be.

  • Brianstorm #28 5 years ago

    Great to see Namco bringing more good 3rd party support to the Wii, with one of their best known franchises.

    Along with Nights, Metroid et al looks like the next 12 months could be full of really decent titles...

  • bdc #29 5 years ago

    Wii is crap

  • Xerx3s #30 5 years ago

    Wii is crap

    No, it's not. developers just underestimated how things would work out.

  • smelly #31 5 years ago

    "Along with Nights, Metroid et al looks like the next 12 months could be full of really decent titles.."

    Funny that, i think Nights looks awful
    And was never a fan of metroid.
    :-)

    I'm more interested in smg and ssb. And this sounds really interesting.

    Its amazing how so many people have judged it to be great or crap based on 3 paragraphs though.

    Why are the fankid trolls so scared of the wii? Its almost like their lives depended on it failing.

  • peterfll #32 5 years ago

    I'm hoping (as a Wii owner) the developer and publisher community have simply been surprised by the (sales) success of the Wii and have several ++ titles in the pipeline that:

    1) Don't require limb sprain to operate (yes, I'm looking at YOU Wii Sports) or some convaluted control mechanism for the sake of it
    2) Prove the Wii in capable of better looking games than the GC (Excite Truck almost made it)
    3) Don't involve playing endless mini-games
    4) Look like they cost more than 2 pound fifty pee (three Euros) to make

    That is all, and nothing that everyone else hasn't already said so many times already.
    Edited by 1 at 14/05/07 @ 20:18

  • smelly #33 5 years ago

    well said

  • Matsuo #34 5 years ago

    What's up with you people? All this bitching and moaning is starting to get annoying. I mean no SINGLE screenshot has been released and it's already being dubbed 'crap', let alone even some proper trailers and game info.
    Just because the first few months consisted of many PS2 ports, mini-games collections or games with controls shoe-horned in it doesn't mean it will stay that way. Believe me, the proper games are heading this way.

    I've been hearing about many promising games in the past few weeks coming to the Wii than on any other consoles (just not on EG, cus we only read week old news here...). The Square-Enix games got my attention, Tecmo has Project Rygar coming, Capcom's RE:UC and RE4 combo pack quite a punch, Sega has things cooking as well as many western developers and publishers. I'm not even talking about Nintendo's input yet. Games are coming people, just be patient. And please stop bitching about games you know next to nothing about it. It just makes you silly.

  • Waldo #35 5 years ago

    If it's no good, where are all the wiis going?

    Into closets to gather dust?

  • ratso #36 5 years ago

    "wii is ruining gaming."

    "If by ruining you mean - bringing an end to relying purely on endless generic fps/racing games - then yes you're right. The wii is crap."

    No, i mean ruining gaming by making fps/racing games more shallow and awkward to control for the sake of novelty.

    Nights 1 would not work with a wiimote, nights 2 will not be the sequel we waited over 10 years for thanks to the wii and its carnival take on gaming.

    the system has a place on the market but it shouldn't be allowed to simplify any existing game series.


  • smelly #37 5 years ago

    "
    the system has a place on the market but it shouldn't be allowed to simplify any existing game series. "


    Oh do get over yerself.

  • Nikanoru #38 5 years ago

    damn I'm so glad the Wii keeps selling and pissing these sad, sad, sad people off.

    I know I shouldn't because it's wrong, but I feel the same way. :D



    I can't wait for more details on this. Playing the SC games has always made me want a real Soul Calibur RPG. Namco, please please please please make it a real adventure with a nice storyline, and a world to explore that has at least a hint of nonlinearity with the option to back- or sidetrack (unlike the utterly boring "one long straight one-way road from start to finish" that way too many RPG's and other games go for these days, blegh). I won't get my hopes up too much, though. :(

  • smelly #39 5 years ago

    And please make link a playable character :-)

  • The-Bodybuilder #40 5 years ago

    >"Capcom's RE:UC"

    R U Skeriouzzzzz?

  • smelly #41 5 years ago

    "Eidos Interactive today announced that Tomb Raider Anniversary is being developed for Wii."

    .. no mention of 360 .. wonder why? :-)

  • Sid-Nice #42 5 years ago

    I'm not impressed by the PSone graphics.

  • smelly #43 5 years ago

    >I'm not impressed by the PSone graphics.

    So why did you post a link to the concept art?

    Those'd be the best in-game graphics ever.. erm.. but they arent.

    Erm, are you american?

  • Sid-Nice #44 5 years ago

    Wye aye I'm American.

  • Genji #45 5 years ago

    I seriously, seriously doubt Sid Nice was being serious there.

  • Obsequious #46 5 years ago

    Smelly attacking the second-biggest Wii fanboy (after himself) in the whole of Eurogamer, how delicious is that? Doubly so, what with Smellz jestingly accusing HIM of being American, and therefore, by extension, devoid of a sense of irony himself.

    God, it's like a Shakespearean tragedy of mistaken identity and tacked-on waggle.

    /loving it.

  • Moz #47 5 years ago

    I'm just not letting myself get excited about this one just yet.

    I got excited about SSX Blur - Turned out to be fairly shite

    Got excited about Sonic and the Secret Ring, and it's quite good but the control system had me shouting at the TV yesterday.

    Devs need to start thinking about giving us a choice with the controls, in Sonic you have to shake the controller to perform an attack which after a while starts to hurt your elbows! Why not give people the option to use the A button insted?

    I'm in no dout that Soul Calibur will be a kick ass game but is it going to be spoiled by the controls? - my current thinking is most probably

  • karstux #48 5 years ago

    There hasn't been a Soul Edge / Soul Calibur game that hasn't been kick-ass yet, so I'm fairly confident that the Wii Calibur will be goodness as well. Personally, I'm expecting this to be the "Killer App" that finally, finally will make my early purchase of the console worthwhile...

    If there's one thing that the SC games have always gotten very right it's the control scheme. For novice and expert players alike it was always possible to create very beautiful, rich fights, with enough depth in the combat system to keep it interesting for a long while. Perfect controlability, perfect learning curve. Now add to that a sensible implementation of the Wiimote controls and you have sword-fighting nirvana...!

  • WillTheSecond #49 5 years ago

    "Nights 1 would not work with a wiimote, nights 2 will not be the sequel we waited over 10 years for thanks to the wii and its carnival take on gaming.

    the system has a place on the market but it shouldn't be allowed to simplify any existing game series."

    Yes, because Twilight Princess was shallow, Metroid Prime 3 (with controls for the first time ever on a console game close to those of a PC FPS) I'm sure will be shallow, it's not as if that's the epitome of hardcore games or anything, Battalion Wars, yes, that's going to be shallow, with its three online modes and combination of third-person shooter and RTS. Not to mention Strikers Charged out next week, which apparently has desperately though AI towards the last few matches.

    This game COULD be good, if it's not, I don't think it will be fair to blame the console, but the developer. As the developer is good, there is no reason to believe this game will be crap, I simply don't understand the negativity.