Soul Calibur 4
 

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/acti...eviews;title;3

Namco showed off a teaser trailer for Soul Calibur IV, the latest entry in its long-running weapon-based fighting series. The gameplay-light trailer featured a smattering of provocative text to tease the game's story, which appears to involve both the Soul Edge (seen in the original arcade game and its PlayStation conversion) and the Soul Calibur, the other powerful sword that's appeared in the series. The highlight of the short trailer was what appeared to be a trio of in-game character models for returning characters Ivy, Mitsurugi, and Nightmare. The text in the trailer hinted at an epic conflict that will find the fighters from the series facing off against evil, pugilistic forces. Beyond that, the only big news from the trailer is the game's 2008 release on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Because the trailer was short, our brief glimpse at the character models didn't offer much that hinted at gameplay, but we can say the characters looked shiny and quite upgraded from the PlayStation 2 game. Mitsurugi was sporting his familiar uniform and hairstyle, although they were much more detailed. Though Mitsurugi looked good, Ivy was the standout with her considerable assets being on ample display from various angles. For those concerned that the white-haired fighter was looking a little mannish in the recent entries of the series, she appears to be all femme and curvy, thanks to the detail provided by the new generation of consoles. One of the notable touches to the models was the level of detail on the clothing and accessories on the fighters. Ivy, in particular, was rocking some detailed stockings and accessories. Nightmare wasn't quite as provocative, but he looked like quite the bad a** with his buff and demonic elements given a high level of detail.

The trailer didn't give us much to go by, but a release from Namco Bandai promised we can expect both returning and new characters, as well as a battle system with which they will fight it out. The release also offered the existence of interactive arenas and new gameplay modes in the new game, but it did not elaborate on those features. Outside of these details, there's not much to say about Soul Calibur IV until Namco Bandai releases more information in the coming months.

This game and Tekken 6 will own. My two favorite fighters right now are Tekken 5 and Soul Calibur 3, so I loved hearing about T6 and SC4 within weeks of each other. Hopefully Tekken Dark Resurrection Online will give Namco the time and experience to sharpen their online features.

Also, they should bring the original Soul Edge and Soul Calibur arcade games to XBL. :y:

Keep the character creation mode in there, and expand on that. They could really outdo the WWE games in that respect of things.

Also, I just thought of this. There is something that the SC series has been lacking in: blood. I'm serlous here, if you swipe someone with a sword or a blade, you're going to cut them, so let's not only see the cuts, but how the characters react to them and what happens afterwards. Maybe they would fight differently, they would not be able to fight as effectively as they would be used to, or the battle would end abruptly because they would pass out from loss of blood or something. Let the blade hits count for more than just another hit in the combo meter.

Namco will never go the blood route, or have long term effects from damage in SC. I miss Bushido Blade, but I like SC how it is.

Soul Blade would be great for XBLA. They could do like DOA and add recent characters in Soul Blade's classic visual style.

SSSSSSSEXY

I'm kinda glad that this isn't a PS3 exclusive. As much as I'd like all 3 systems to be doing well (competition among the consoles = gamers win), Sony just doesn't seem to want me to buy their shit anymore.

lol

"the game's story"

Oh, where to begin?

The origin of the Soul Edge and how it relates to Soul Calibur. You may also wanna bring up the three treasures and they involve Kilik and Xiangua.

Great googly moogly, triad.

I study what I play with. I can't stand when someone's in to something but can't explain it's history fictional or otherwise. Gotta be educated consumers.

now that... that is hot.

Definitely cannot wait for a release of that. And also see more vids and stuff. SC3 is my fav. game right now and I've been waiting for number 4 to see how they could possibly top SC3.

looks pretty sharp

http://www.bradygames.com/content/do...lcal3/rock.jpg
ROCK MAD. ROCK SMASH.

lol Fignuts

I always wondered when they'd add Rock's adopted son Bongo. He's supposed to be old enough to fight and such.And I hope Amy gets more attention than, though I didn't play her updated form in the arcade re-release.

Is Spawn returning in it??? cuz i love him in the gayest way possible

It would've made sense that Spawn's moves be one of the Bonus Characters in SC3.

Online play confirmed, BTW. Yay.

A new trailer showing the fighting.

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Badass. So projectiles are getting a bigger role in combat now. I wonder who that new kid was in the armor...

Looks great. I just hope they load it up with all the old moves they took out in Soul Calibur 3 and throw those in with some new ones in Soul Calibur 4.

I kinda liked Maxi's new moveset from SC3 better.

I'm more concerned about balance tho. fkghkgfdhjkf Xianghua was insanely overpowered.

I read in PSM that balance issues have been addressed.

They need to bring back weapon breaks.

Looks like Sigfried had some magic ice spell or something.

Crystals. He's down with crystals now...

New trailer out at CES.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29535.html

Words cannot describe the big surprise at the end.

ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING AROUND WITH ME RIGHT NOW WOWWWWWWWWWWW

Aww just read that (spoiler-Yoda is 360 exclusive while Vader is PS3 exclusive. Not that Yoda isn't cool, but I wanna play as Vader :'( )

OMG WHAT

You know....wouldnt that just cut right through the sword and kill the opponent?

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FUCK

Now I have to buy the ps3 AND 360 version.

Some more to excite you...

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165334

Kinda sucks, hope they have Create A Character.

Dear God, if Luke Skywalker and Darth Maul also are in this game by some twist of fate, I'm gonna cum. I dunno how else to say it.

Cum in your pants?

At least be able to create them.

I honestly ejaculated watching that video