Less than one month until Souls and Swords and Whatnot.
Soulcalibur IV hits PS3 and 360 HARD on July 29, arriving with new console-exclusive characters, returning favorites (yay, Talim!) and plenty of question marks. Bandai Namco has done a great job on the ol’ PR slow trickle, eaking out character reveals and feature sets over the past six months.
I’m not super-jazzed about the Star Wars crossover characters (Darth Vader=PS3, Yoda=360), only because they seem to take over the game… and I don’t especially need Star Wars in my Soulcalibur. I’m hoping their presence in SCIV is as innocuous as the Link/Spawn/Heihachi trio back in Soulcalibur II, and that their constant appearances in all the pre-release vids is just marketing spiel at work.
And I’ll put it right out there that I believe PS3 owners will be able to micropayment Yoda into their game and vice-versa with Vader and the 360. I mean, why wouldn’t Bandai Namco do that?
Vader’s Secret Apprentice will appear in both versions, although I’m not sure anybody gives a crap about him. My guess is that Bandai Namco wanted Vader and Yoda, and Lucas said they had to take Secret Apprentice too to seal the deal.
A particularly delicious rumor (fronted by EGM’s venerable Quartermann) suggests that Kratos – of Sony’s God of War series – will be playable in the PS3 version. I’m not a big God of War fan by any stretch, but I agree that he would be a super addition to the exclusivity roster… certainly far more interesting and relevant than Spawn was five years ago.
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Well adding the apprentice from the upcoming Star Wars Force Unleashed, gives the game balance against someone using a force enabled character. From what I hear in early previews is that Darth Vader is way overpowered, and could be a game breaker, so adding the Apprentice, could give the game a balance against that.
Yeah, but I can name a couple dozen force-users at least a hundred times cooler than the Secret Apprentice. At least give us somebody visually interesting, like Kit Fisto, or somebody with some fan cred, like Mace Windu.
I would have preferred Aayla Secura or Shaak Ti as I have loved their character development.
Mace Windu ftw. I’m so sick of Star Wars, though.
The Secret Apprentice is a friggin badass (at least in the trailers for Star Wars Force Unleashed). I can’t wait for SCIV to come out–because of the new Star Wars characters and also because SC has always been an incredibly balanced fighting game.