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Star Wars & Soul Calibur "forces" combine

Posted on January 9th, 2008 at 23:01 EDT

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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posted 11:07pm EST - January 9th, 2008
1

ummmm... cool?

posted 11:09pm EST - January 9th, 2008
2

LOL reminds me of when they did this sort of thing for SC II. Call it  Soul Wars from now on lol.

posted 11:15pm EST - January 9th, 2008
3

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!!!

posted 11:18pm EST - January 9th, 2008
4

Sorry if the pictures aren't always working guys.  We're having a server issue where the two databases aren't working seamlessly together.

posted 11:18pm EST - January 9th, 2008
5

There was a Star Wars Fighting game, believe it or not called Masters of Teras Kasi. Man was that aweful.

posted 11:31pm EST - January 9th, 2008
6

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!

posted 11:32pm EST - January 9th, 2008
7

I was getting this game anyways. PSU has to change their release date on it though cuz i think its due in Joon.

 

@Unkool ... Masters wasn't that bad.

posted 11:37pm EST - January 9th, 2008
8

tom, I just checked a couple of sites, but can't find a concrete date, do you happen to have one?

posted 11:47pm EST - January 9th, 2008
9

@DaveW ... I don't know the exact day. I just remebering reading about a june release somewhere.

 

BTW  Vader > Yoda .... so .... ps3 version > 360 version

posted 11:56pm EST - January 9th, 2008
10

I'll keep looking for a specific month then, just to make sure... Then I'll have it updated.

posted 11:57pm EST - January 9th, 2008
11

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^

posted 12:09am EST - January 10th, 2008
12
how crazy is that?
posted 12:16am EST - January 10th, 2008
13

So Yoda will "debut" on the 360 while the PS3 gets "Exclusive" DV? Does that mean that the PS3 will get Yoda as well? From that it sounds that way.

posted 12:22am EST - January 10th, 2008
14

@Daz... no dude. they're both exclusive to their consoles. so if your fighting online and the other dude/dudette is yoda, then your fighting an xbot

posted 1:41am EST - January 10th, 2008
15
sweet..... this should be real cool
posted 1:47am EST - January 10th, 2008
16
cool will definitely be pickin this one up
posted 2:24am EST - January 10th, 2008
17

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.

posted 2:29am EST - January 10th, 2008
18

feel the dark side of the force!! in this case, the dark side of gaming^^

posted 2:50am EST - January 10th, 2008
19

They look beautiful.

posted 3:13am EST - January 10th, 2008
20

i think that yoda isnt a good choice for it, a red star wars character would have better suited it lol!

posted 4:41am EST - January 10th, 2008
21

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.

posted 5:18am EST - January 10th, 2008
22

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

posted 5:18am EST - January 10th, 2008
23

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

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

 

posted 5:35am EST - January 10th, 2008
24
psn id MUSTANG750R .... awsome vader exclusive, sad about not getting yoda but oh well
posted 6:50am EST - January 10th, 2008
25
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.
posted 7:39am EST - January 10th, 2008
26

Man,i wanna play as Yoda.

posted 8:58am EST - January 10th, 2008
27

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

posted 11:26am EST - January 10th, 2008
28

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

posted 12:15pm EST - January 10th, 2008
29

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

posted 1:05pm EST - January 10th, 2008
30

great

posted 1:51pm EST - January 10th, 2008
31

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)...

posted 1:51pm EST - January 10th, 2008
32

how are they gonna hit yoda????

posted 2:14pm EST - January 10th, 2008
33

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

 

 

posted 10:22pm EST - January 10th, 2008
34
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
posted 10:10pm EST - January 11th, 2008
35

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

posted 11:49pm EST - January 16th, 2008
36

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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