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Star Wars & Soul Calibur "forces" combine

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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  1. InfernoReaper

    • 11:41pm EST - January 9th, 2008

    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.

  2. Dragon-slayer87

    • 12:18am EST - January 10th, 2008

    is it really possible to play SC IV cross platforms???

  3. Staude

    • 12:18am EST - January 10th, 2008

    EPIC .. We get Darth Vader ? .. AWESOME !

    Thers not much else to say... Vader = T3h Win

     

  4. mustang750r

    • 12:35am EST - January 10th, 2008

    psn id MUSTANG750R .... awsome vader exclusive, sad about not getting yoda but oh well

  5. CONFLICT__01

    • 1:50am EST - January 10th, 2008

    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.

  6. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 2:39am EST - January 10th, 2008

    Man,i wanna play as Yoda.

  7. Untildeath89

    • 3:58am EST - January 10th, 2008

    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

  8. gingo

    • 6:26am EST - January 10th, 2008

    psn id: gingo.... wow!!!! definitely was not expecting this, cant wait to play as darth vader that should be awesome

  9. Pap3rThin

    • 7:15am EST - January 10th, 2008

    Thank god we get Darth Vadar! I wouldn't want to play as Yoda, anyway.

  10. nastanley

    • 8:05am EST - January 10th, 2008

    great

  11. thegame97338

    • 8:51am EST - January 10th, 2008

    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)...

  12. psn_frov

    • 8:51am EST - January 10th, 2008

    how are they gonna hit yoda????

  13. killercop

    • 9:14am EST - January 10th, 2008

    Lol! Nice! Especially the Darth Vader -> PS3, Yoda -> Xbox 360 haha.

     

     

  14. Bino4169

    • 5:22pm EST - January 10th, 2008

    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

  15. Fijiandoce

    • 5:10pm EST - January 11th, 2008

    this looks COOL!!!!!!!! its a shame i wont get to play as yoda but vader is just as good. :)

  16. djrussell

    • 6:49pm EST - January 16th, 2008

    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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