Ubisoft to distribute Soul Caliburs Comments by Tom Bramwell

Yay for going home!

Fucksocks. EA normally publish Namco titles in Europe :(

I want, nay, need to play as Altair. Make it so Ubisoft!!!!!!

Darth Vader on the PS3 version - :) welcome to the dark side Lord Vader

Yoda or Darth...hmm..Hard decision, I'd usually pick Vader but then I'd have to play the game with Jaggies...

Nice peice of trolling Kryon

/Ignore

what a dull headline - surely it should be something along the lines of 'omg yoda in soul calibur !!!!!' :)

What is SKU?

Shame the Wii version is, from all accounts, a pile of ass - it sounded like a potentially fun concept. Ah well: I can still look forward to the real IV, which I suspect will arrive just in time to ruin my exams. Good times. :)

SKU - Stock Keeping Unit

It's basically a retail acronym which has (somehow) started being used in the games industry. Basically it means a different thing that retailers will stock, i.e. usually a different barcode or something. So a game like Bioshock and it's Limited Edition would be two different SKUs. Better example: there are currently 4 Nintendogs SKUs on the market.

Bit of a shame they can't bring out Soul Calibur IV to the Wii, I guess it's for technical reasons. Then again, if that is the reason I expect it to look superb and run smoothly on the PS3/360, otherwise non-Wii support is ridiculous.

Anyway, as long as it’s similar to the first three games in combat then it’ll make a nice Beat ‘Em Up addition to each console. I just hope it has a large single-player mode like Soul Calibur III had on the PS2. Online support equals nothing for me, I’ll only be fighting mates on the VS mode.

please don't say SKU again. it sounds awful and american and ridiculous, especially when used outside a retail context.

That'll be shit then. Needless wiimote use FTL.

That's a bad, close-minded attitude, the same kind that leads to stagnation in the industry.

Motion controls can add a lot if done well. SC Legends just isn't.

Great, that means half the internet wont get review copy then :)

"That'll be shit then. Needless wiimote use FTL. Smash Bros has GC pad enabled for a reason. So far the only games that actually need the sodding thing are MP3 and Z&W."

And Resident Evil 4.

The problem with controls is the shoehorning that is initially done, trying to work around mechanics provided or ignoring them completely. The Wii suffers most from this for the simple reason that the concept - whilst we generally accept as being not new since infra-red screen detection has been done with light guns and the like - has rarely really progressed outside particular genres of game. I'm sure people will hit on sweet spots in the end and prove such mechanics are more long-term and not all cheap gimmicks, but until then they're not going to care. There is no need to risk trying new concepts when people will buy it anyway.

But off the point the bit. Legends might actually make it work. It may not. Time will tell. I'm not entirely sure about Star Wars getting involved in the SC thing though. SCIV really needs to work on the mechanics above cheap gimmicks - and it is more of a gimmick than the Wii controls. The Wii controls have some point to them, we can see flashes of genius in the way they're used. Yoda and Darth Vader in SC4? Not so much genius as screaming "Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!"

Not so much genius as screaming "Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!"

I agree - SC previously had Spawn and Link as special characters in the GC and Xbox versions.

Although Darth is way cooler!! :D

I find it an "old-timer" approach when one says "no online for me"; "don't mention the word onli...". C'mon, we can't be that attached to the past, yeah it was cool to drag friends over to matches, but now one can just get out of bed on a Sunday morning and kick some teeth before having a coffee, is that bad?

By the way, Virtua Fighter (online; with Hori controller) is the daddy... .

It's not bad but I don't like people.

You must be thinking of DPV's (Different Platform Versions)
Get with the times!

"please don't say SKU again. it sounds awful and american and ridiculous, especially when used outside a retail context."

FUCK SKU.