Oct 19 2011
Please, Please Be Real
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The above is a picture allegedly snapped at a Soul Calibur 5 press event which shows none other than Assassin’s Creed’s Ezio Auditore as a playable character. Is it real? I don’t know. I believe so, but the entire thing might be doctored as Cassandra is breaking the cardinal rule of the game wearing an outfit that doesn’t showcase her rack. No true Soul Calibur title would commit such an atrocity.
As for Ezio? I think he’s definitely the perfect fit for the game, since he could even really fit into the lore if he wanted to, unlike say, Darth Vader and Yoda, special guests from past installments. But which weapon does he get to use? Sure, his wrist blade will obviously be used in a few sick grabs, but he’s trained in like every other bladed weapon on earth, so I wonder what he’d actually get to use.
These games are pretty ridiculous, but they’re the only fighting title I still enjoy playing outside of Super Smash Bros. 64
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Paul, check out this Japanese commercial for uncharted 3. It has a pretty awesome crossover meta element too.
it would really help if I put the link in the comment though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJuC9pGR4zE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I didn’t realize how odd it was that I like a fighting game like Soul Caliber until a friend pointed it out. Mortal Combat and Street Fighter both introduced to me as PvP games. My first foray into this was one of the campaign modes that gave non-fight choices that effected that outcome. Some of them even let you choose to not fight and simulate that fight instead, usually resulting in a worse outcome then if you fought, but gave the option.
This feature that put an RPG element into the game made me interested in it where the others were felt like mindless fighting.
SSB is one of my few launch day purchase series. It breaks the most basic rule of fighting games by being a beat up game instead of a beat down.
Paul: Is there a reason this game gains your attention where other fighting games don’t?
That would actually be Sophitia’s daughter Pyrrha…she seems to be taking a leaf out of her aunt’s (Cassandra) book and dressing a bit more conservatively.
@RNG
I loved the original Soul Blade in the arcade growing up. I thought the use of weapons was great and way cooler than most other punch/kick fighting games.
In the modern era, I really like the RPG elements, but they keep messing around with story mode and I think it’s gotten worse recently. They need to set that back the way it used to be in 2 or 3.
Yea, I think that’s supposed to be Sophitia’s daughter.
The part I’m waiting to figure out is how she has her mother’s sword and shield. Her back story on Wikipedia says that she was taken from her home by Tira in Soul Calibur III at 1-2 years old and currently thinks her family is dead. But then it also says she’s using her mother’s sword and shield (not just fighting style, but her actual weapons too).
It seems as though Cassandra nabbed them from her and stored them at the Eurydice Shrine. I imagine sometime over the course of 17 years she got wind of this and tracked the weapons down.
I really hope to see Ezio in this, I think he would be an amazing character.
My big complaint with the Star Wars characters was that you couldn’t make your own character with a lightsaber as weapon, I guess because of licensing rights…would be pretty cool to make your own assassin, though.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-character-soul-calibur/722737
This just got confirmed. Should be an awesome addition for Soul Caliber. This might be an even better addition than Link was way back when.
The Soul Calibur series is dead. I wish the newer installments followed in the steps of SC and SC2 and restored the immaculate combat rhythm those games had, for one.