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Namco Bandai has revealed that Soul Calibur IV will be out across the US on 29th July.
Unfortunately European publisher Ubisoft has nothing more than "summer" to offer us at the moment.
Soul Calibur IV (or is it Soulcalibur? No one seems sure) is in development for PS3 and 360. It will feature a fancy Critical Finisher system where you can instantly kill an opponent if you manage to empty their Soul Gauge two times in a row; this fills up when attacking but decreases when defending.
It also has some fresh faces such as the high profile additions of Darth Vader for the PS3 version and Yoda for the Xbox 360 offering. You can see these two in action in a fancy new video.
Pop over to our Soul Calibur IV gamepage to see how it's all shaping up.
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This is actually the only game so far that has made me want a PS3. I'll be getting the 360 version but Vader is so much cooler than Yoda, it's not funny.
I can picture the Namco boardroom when they invited the Sony and MS reps over to discuss the new additions: Namco guy: "guys, we're considering having some cool Star Wars characters in the game. Vader and Yoda. What do you think?" Sony guy: "Dibs on Vader!" MS guy: "Wha?" |
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WinterSnowblind
16/04/08 @ 09:26
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I actually perfer Yoda, I think his fighting style is going to be a lot more fun.
And besides that, it's practically already confirmed that the opposite character will be coming to the other console via DLC shortly afterward. |
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"I actually perfer Yoda"
Yodalol :D "it's practically already confirmed that the opposite character will be coming to the other console via DLC shortly afterward" I've heard this but only from internet hopefuls tbh, (I hope it's true myself as the characters seem a bit pointless unless they can face each other) but when you say "practically confirmed", what do you mean? Link? |
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muscleblade
16/04/08 @ 09:54
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The European release date is probably 01.08. Im willing to bet on this. So you wont get the game sooner if you buy the US version anyway.
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WinterSnowblind
16/04/08 @ 10:42
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@Kryon
"Namco was nice enough to concede that the second characters may be available for download on the respective consoles at a later date." From Gameinformer. EGM have said similar things, as well as the possibility of even more Star Wars characters being added with DLC. |
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muscleblade
16/04/08 @ 10:54
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Dont Worry! Sure Vader will become available with some dlc including new 250G on the 360 for 800 MS points.
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I actually want to play as Darth Vader rather than Yoda so I'm swinging toward the PS3 version. However, I know from past experience that it'll likely be the inferior version in terms of graphics if not controls (bar the superb D-pad) so commonsense tells me to go for the 360 version and hope that Vader appears as DLC. I guess it depends on when the game is released here in Europe; if we have to wait then I'll likely import the region-free PS3 version anyway.
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Mentalist(air)
16/04/08 @ 12:55
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It's Japanese, so it's less likely to be terrible on PS3.
Isn't the PS3 Tekken game pretty good already? That'll be the same engine. |
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WinterSnowblind
16/04/08 @ 13:09
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@Darren
I hate to sound so pro 360, but I've seen a few comments regarding "the region free PS3 version" and feel it's worth pointing out that practically every 360 game are also region free, particularly multiplatform games.
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@Mentalist(air)
Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection (the PS3 Tekken game you were referring to) is just an upscaled version of the arcade game, so it's running the Tekken 5 engine (which ran happily on the PS2, albeit in a much lower resolution). The engine for SC4 is all new and has been written for next-gen systems (can we start calling them "current-gen" yet?). I don't know if it's the same engine as the one that runs Tekken 6, it would make sense if it was. And I agree with you, I doubt Namco will release an inferior PS3 version of a multiplatform title in the same way Western developers have done in the past. |
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@kissthestick
Probably the 360 version, then. If you're asking about the import or local version, you'd have to find out if the US version is region free first. Despite what was said above, many NTSC games won't run on PAL consoles. One of Namco's most recent releases, Ace Combat 6, is region locked according to Play-Asia.com.
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@WinterSnowlind - Erm... no... "practically every" multiformat Xbox 360 game is not region-free at all, it depends on the publisher. For example, Major League Baseball 2K7 and 2K8 are region-free on the PS3 but not on the Xbox 360. There are numerous other examples of this too. Sadly most Xbox 360 games are region-locked so there's absolutely no guarantee that Soulcalibur IV on the 360 will be region-free but the PS3 version most certainly will be. I'm assuming that Namco will be publishing the game in the US, as they usually do, so I doubt it will be region-free on the 360 as Beautiful Katamari and Ace Combat 6 weren't. ;)
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Triggerhappytel
16/04/08 @ 15:42
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"Soul Calibur IV (or is it Soulcalibur? No one seems sure)"
I've always thought it was Soul Calibur, however I've just checked the spine of my PS2 version of SC2, and it is, indeed Soulcalibur. Bah, I still prefer Soul Calibur. Does that mean Soul Blade [Edge] was Soulblade?! |
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Soul Calibur is certainly more masher friendly than Virtua Fighter or even Tekken, and the problem tends to get a little worse with each iteration of the series because the game gets a little faster and all the characters get slightly longer combos (an additional hit often gets added to many attack strings). However, I haven't found it to be too bad - I used to have a couple of non-fighting game players around to play SC2 and I would often rack up 10 or 11 win streaks before people would force me to hand the controller over. You just have to adjust your style when playing against mashers - playing the same way you play against an experienced opponent or the AI doesn't work.
As for single player being easy, were you playing on normal difficulty? There are harder settings available, and SC2 or 3 certainly wasn't easy on hard or very hard. I actually prefer single player modes to err on the easy side because that's often how you unlock things and I don't like having important content inaccessible to all but the most dedicated players. |
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Mmmm... I don't like Yoda or Vader. I'm not really a fan of the SW saga, but I feel that things like the "midichlorians" ans Yoda jumping as a joker did hurt a lot the phylosophical feeling of the films, even for the tastes of the true fans.
I love the Soul Edge/Soul Calibur franchise, but imo Vader & Yoda are utterly superfluous here, ans also Scherezade and the manga guirl don't fit very well in SC saga, Hildegarde is much better character. About the engine, this is not the one from T5DRO or Tekken 6; both SC IV and T6 have his own new engines and are developed by different teams. About the controls, the digital cross in the Sixaxis is imo better suited to fighting games than the Xbox 360 digital cross, but the L2 and R2 buttons in Sixaxis are nuch worse than the ones in Dual Shock 2 (yes, I said "2" ). I'll buy the PS3 version (maybe imported, is matter of the posible delay), which probably will sell more units, at least in Europe (I'm from Spain) and would only buy a 360 + SC IV if the online in PS3 works clearly worse. |
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Slipstream
17/04/08 @ 00:36
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lol July 29th!!!
That's my Birthday ^^ The Americans get to play a game that I really want on my birthday! xD...wait a sec... |
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