Was the hype justified?
Developer: Project Soul
Publisher: Namco Bandai
Genre: Fighting
Sub-Genre: N/A
Release Date: Jul 29th, 2008
Additonal Info: Darth Vader (of Star Wars fa...
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Genre: Fighting
Sub-Genre: N/A
Release Date: Oct 25th, 2005
Additonal Info:
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Genre: Fighting
Sub-Genre: N/A
Release Date: Aug 27th, 2003
Additonal Info:
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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haha your fighter just takes out a gun and shoots the other person lol
can't wait for this one to come out. soul caliber games have always been great.
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
one shot kills better be stoppable or else Im not buyin this game
That would be more realistic, cool and suck at the same time..
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 ????
@ duomtl - LOL
hmmmmm, my thoughts are that is very interesting hopefully there will be an option to toggle it on or off
soul calibur is cool,i wouold love for this game to PS3 exclusive mm to bad Tekken destroys it in everyway anyways.
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.
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
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
As long as they're really hard to pull off, I won't mind. I'm sure they'll balance it correctly.
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.
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
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.
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".