Star Wars & Soul Calibur "forces" combine
- Posted January 9th, 2008 at 23:01 EDT by
- 36 Comments
Star Wars meet Soul Calibur, Soul Calibur this is Star Wars. This is all the introduction the two franchises needed as both have come together to excite fans of both with the latest news of their partnership together.
The Soul Calibur titles have long been one of the most heralded fighting franchises in video gaming, being praised for their excellent graphics and gameplay mechanics. As if they needed anything else to separate themselves from the competition, they went out and teamed with the most storied franchise in the history of entertainment, Star Wars, to add two new playable characters to the upcoming Soul Calibur IV.
The two characters chosen to be in the next version of Soul Calibur have been Yoda and Darth Vader, and rightfully so. These two characters are two of the most important characters throughout the entire saga of films and are instantly recognizable and are certain to add a level of intrigue to gamers and non-gamers alike to the newest Soul Calibur game. Yoda will make his debut on the Xbox 360 while Darth Vader will be featured exclusively on the PlayStation 3.
Soul Calibur IV will mark the fifth installment in Namco's Soul series of fighting games. Namco has announced that the game will be released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sometime in 2008, perhaps in the Spring in North America, and rumored for Europe in Spring 2008 or Summer 2008. Stay tuned for any new developments regarding Soul Calibur & Star wars. May the force be with you.
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MatrixSixaxis
- 11:15pm GMT - January 9th, 2008
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How Namco got the license for this to happen I have no idea! But in an act of desperate times in the franchise....this is pretty ___ cool anyways!! I've never seen any Star Wars characters in a fighting game, and this is such a great game to start on. As for the exclusive characters, no doubt that if Namco is smart/greedy enough...we should be able to either be rewarded with new characters after completion of the game several times OR BUY THEM ON PSN!!! (most likely outcome).
Start Wars FTW!!!
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MatrixSixaxis
- 11:31pm GMT - January 9th, 2008
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Uncool: Thanks. A 10 year old game from PSOne. The pics I just looked at looks pretty average even for that century, and I think I'll take your word on it about how the game was....that I don't want to see on PSN!
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MatrixSixaxis
- 11:57pm GMT - January 9th, 2008
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Due to exclusiveness on the Star Wars characters, apparently we (PS3 owners) are on the Dark Side of the Force! That's cool though, that's where I belong.
Anyways, when they play this on X360 and the RROD comes up....they're minds will be clouded by the "force" to send off the X360 to M$. ^o_o^
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D3v1lwqer23 |
CaptainxNinja- 2:24am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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Vader owns yoda, but I guess the color schemes had alot to do with that decision. Its too bad Virtua Fighter killed my need/want for fighting games, man that game blew something awful.
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Undying_Darkness
- 3:13am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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i think that yoda isnt a good choice for it, a red star wars character would have better suited it lol!
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 4:41am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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I really hope they include more guest characters than one.
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Anyway Dave, I looked it up, and I don't know how credible it is but I saw the release date is June 2 on EB Games/GameStop website.
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Dragon-slayer87 |
Dragon-Slayer87- 5:18am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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is it really possible to play SC IV cross platforms???
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mustang750r |
MUSTANG750R- 5:35am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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psn id MUSTANG750R .... awsome vader exclusive, sad about not getting yoda but oh well
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CONFLICT__01 |
conflict01- 6:50am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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Put Darth Maul in and I might pick this one up second hand for a score in a years time. Other wise I got bored of beat em ups bout 8yrs ago.
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Untildeath89 |
willmakenewonesoon- 8:58am GMT - January 10th, 2008
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this isnt act of desperation, its awesome, just look at darth vader and yoda in hd :D btw if they really concentrate and develop those 2 or darth in my case to top character it may be my fav char depending on how well they make his combat
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thegame97338 |
G_PIG79- 1:51pm GMT - January 10th, 2008
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It makes sense, Xbox's main color is green= Yoda, and the Playstation 3's main color is a nice sleek Black= Darth Vader, come, join the dark side, koooow, puuur(vader breathing)...
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Bino4169
- 10:22pm GMT - January 10th, 2008
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If you look at how Darth Vadar is a heavy char.... from a professional Smash Bros Players standpoint, heavy chars don't make top tier due to the fact that the lag that their moves greatly affect their stand point when it comes to combos, which is why Yoda is a better char due to his small size and if you've seen him in the sequels of Ep 2 and 3 you will notice that he is way fast, and thus they will base his fighting skill and speed off of those movies while basing Vadars speed and power from the 4th-6th Episodes where he relies on power and not speed so Vadar is technically worse than Yoda regardless of how he was in the movies he will not be a better competitive char
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Fijiandoce |
Fijiandoce- 10:10pm GMT - January 11th, 2008
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this looks COOL!!!!!!!! its a shame i wont get to play as yoda but vader is just as good. :)
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djrussell |
djrussell89- 11:49pm GMT - January 16th, 2008
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Seriously this has got nothing to do with fanboyishness (is that a word?) but given the choice I'd be playing as Vader anyday. Yoda is cool and all - he probebly got some crazy little shifty moves, but Darth Vader is.. Darth Vader. The dude is just so iconic and sooooooo f***ing awesome its not funny. Probebly wont get the game, but the PS3 did get the right one this time.
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