Soul Calibur IV to get up to 5 Star Wars Characters

Bobby1234 · 6 Jun 2008 at 10:55

http://www.psu.com/Sith-Apprentice-to-appear-in-Soul-Calibur-IV-News--a0003899-p0.php

According to Gamespot, Darth Vader's secret apprentice from the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed title will be starring as a playable character in Namco's Soul Calibur IV.

For those of you who are not up to date with The Force Unleashed, the apprentice is a tortured soul who is brought up by the learnings of his Sith Lord master, Darth Vader. Trained to have great knowledge of the force and equipped with a crimson lightsaber, this new character will make for a deadly opponent. From what has been shown in The Force Unleashed, the apprentice has the power to not only move objects with the force, but cause powerful explosions obliterating everything surrounding him.

Nitefly · 6 Jun 2008 at 11:37

Am I the only one who thinks the Soul Calbur games are really bad because any practise or intelligence with your playing can be (pretty much) beaten with button bashing?

ojste · 6 Jun 2008 at 11:44

Nitefly said:
Am I the only one who thinks the Soul Calbur games are really bad because any practise or intelligence with your playing can be (pretty much) beaten with button bashing?

button mashers get destroyed in soul calibur by an experienced player. Learning a bunch of moves in practise mode is far from being experienced..

also, to keep it on topic, im sick of all these crap additions, i could just about handle having the exclusive star wars characters to rope new players in, they might as well make a star wars beat em up at this rate! soul calibur is fine without them.

Tobes · 6 Jun 2008 at 11:58

Chicks wearing very little and with big boobs plz

kthxbye

glitch · 6 Jun 2008 at 12:19

ojste said:
also, to keep it on topic, im sick of all these crap additions, i could just about handle having the exclusive star wars characters to rope new players in, they might as well make a star wars beat em up at this rate! soul calibur is fine without them.

It's ruining the game for me. As more news is released I'm less and less likely to even bother picking this up as a rental, let alone retail.

Interesting snippet from Eurogamer this morning:

Eurogamer said:
Not that you would want to fight Yoda, mind you; we had a chance to play as and against him at the recent UbiDays event, and soon learned he was too small to either grab or hit with high attacks.

Apparently his weakness is his short reach, but he, like Vader, has a Force meter to produce fancy jumps with - in the hands of an expert he can stay air-bound for quite some time.

Oh that sounds just brilliant.

stealthgeek · 6 Jun 2008 at 14:05

lol - Eddy Gordo players rejoice!

yaboy · 6 Jun 2008 at 14:27

Luke Skywalker?

Shamikebab · 6 Jun 2008 at 14:41

So surely this guy will kick the **** out of yoda and vader if he has these ridiculous force powers?

wannabedamned · 6 Jun 2008 at 14:45

ojste said:
button mashers get destroyed in soul calibur by an experienced player. Learning a bunch of moves in practise mode is far from being experienced..

+1

I am God, Anyone else may aswell be considered a button masher.

....Too much? Tone it down? A little Egotistcal?

Nitefly · 6 Jun 2008 at 15:18

ojste said:
button mashers get destroyed in soul calibur by an experienced player. Learning a bunch of moves in practise mode is far from being experienced..

I played Soul Calibur for ages on the dreamcast, completed it a zillion times and thought I knew it inside out. Unless you want to spend a rather silly amount of time practising as if were a real life martial art, then I would still have to disagree. Its much easier for a newbie to button bash than in say, Street Fighter.

wannabedamned · 6 Jun 2008 at 15:30

Nitefly said:
I played Soul Calibur for ages on the dreamcast, completed it a zillion times and thought I knew it inside out. Unless you want to spend a rather silly amount of time practising as if were a real life martial art, then I would still have to disagree. Its much easier for a newbie to button bash than in say, Street Fighter.

I'd agree button mashing will get you through the game against a CPU opponent, But I don't think it works very well if you take on someone who is an experienced player.

Maxi was the worst character for button bashers in the past

McManicMan · 6 Jun 2008 at 18:24

more interested in the quest mode if there is one, thats what made SC different from the rest and IMHO the best

ojste · 6 Jun 2008 at 21:19

Nitefly said:
I played Soul Calibur for ages on the dreamcast, completed it a zillion times and thought I knew it inside out. Unless you want to spend a rather silly amount of time practising as if were a real life martial art, then I would still have to disagree. Its much easier for a newbie to button bash than in say, Street Fighter.

playing against cpu opponents is different from playing human players. a button masher will use so much random unsafe crap that you will be able to punish them over and over, you only need small openings to be able to knock large amounts of health off.