Soul Calibur IV to contain new gameplay feature

  • Posted August 1st, 2007 at 14:06 EDT by
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The latest game in the Soul Caliber series will be getting a new addition that is sure to make fans of the game either jump for joy or scream in anger.

Lead programmer Masaaki Hoshino told OPM in their latest issue that they will be adding a new gameplay element to Soul Caliber IV that will allow players to kill their opponent in a single hit, regardless of the amount of life they have in their health bar.

Unfortunately, this is all the information Hoshino released about the new element. Could instant kills come in the form of weapon-breaks? Speculation will just have to continue for now, including how players will be able to execute these new one-shot kills.

Source: GamesRadar

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  1. engdude

    • 2:13pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    crazy

  2. duomtl | duomtl

    • 2:29pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    haha your fighter just takes out a gun and shoots the other person lol

  3. rossinator_99

    • 2:29pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    can't wait for this one to come out. soul caliber games have always been great.

  4. gingo | gingo

    • 2:39pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    psn id: gingo... yeah i read this in OPM  and i am intrigued  i hope it doesn't ruin gameplay but i have faith that it wont

  5. Syugo | Syugo

    • 2:48pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    one shot kills better be stoppable or else Im not buyin this game

  6. thegame97338 | G_PIG79

    • 3:04pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    That would be more realistic, cool and suck at the same time..

  7. ps3fan16

    • 3:51pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    i would like that im a fan of the game plus 360 does not get this game at all oh like can you dodge it or block it ????

  8. Eric2929 | Eric2929

    • 4:36pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    @ duomtl - LOL

  9. primalbreath | jdawg222

    • 4:43pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    hmmmmm, my thoughts are that is very interesting hopefully there will be an option to toggle it on or off

  10. shaka | Shaka

    • 5:19pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    soul calibur is cool,i wouold love for this game to PS3 exclusive mm to bad Tekken destroys it in everyway anyways.

  11. Psydistix

    • 5:41pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    This is horrible news for Soul Calibur IV. Namco is just asking for power gamers to find out a way to perform this without it being blocked. I hope that this is only a consideration for the moment.

  12. hawkeye00 | boatwizzle

    • 6:15pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    i can see this getiing annoying if u cant block it but it could be a good thing well just have to wait and see

  13. KainZ7 | KainZ7

    • 7:37pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    if u dodge a mortal attack, u should be able to do a mortal blow on your oponend while he is recovering from your dodge, it would be nice, player a dodges MA from player b, then player a apply MA on player b, player b dodges and try MA on player a, O>O

  14. Eric2929 | Eric2929

    • 8:08pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    As long as they're really hard to pull off, I won't mind. I'm sure they'll balance it correctly.

  15. bluecrane7

    • 9:19pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    this is kind of what i want in fight nite or the new ufc game, one punch KO. no 8 counts no srambling to lock up, just bring in the stretcher.

  16. SonyJunkie | Bender6191

    • 10:01pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    I doubt they would make it easy for a one shot kill, you probably have to do some crazy combo, or they will make something for it to be really hard to do. But if you can do it in time, you will kill them, thats pretty sweet

  17. Alpha2

    • 10:04pm BST - August 1st, 2007

    LOL Soul Calibur is being programed by the Guilty Gear people? I remember the first time I played the original guilty gear and killed someone for the first time for 2 rounds instantly with one move. I didnt even have the instructions fo the game and I was owning people in 10 seconds. But all that's changed now, I doubt they'd put the moves in SC without some form of block of evasion move to counter it just like the unblockables you can't defend it but you can probably see it coming from a mile out.

  18. BobbyRoc | BobbyRoc

    • 4:42am BST - August 2nd, 2007

    WTF, weak! Soul Calibur on Dreamcast was my favorite game. I think it is the greatest fighting game of all time. 2 and 3 were ok too but the first one was a classic hands down. One shot kill in a fighting game is weak, please don't kill this game with some BS. Any true calibur player knows about the 5 rounds, infinite time = true battle!

  19. Atreides

    • 7:39am BST - September 28th, 2007

    Old post, but Squaresoft made fighting games Bushido Blade 1 and 2 with 1 hit kills, it could have been done better, but it wasnt "bad".

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