This game isn't meant for hardcore fight purposes its campaign is meant to train you and teach you about the basic to advanced techniques of Soulcalibur, such as ukemi, aerial recovery and control, just impacts, guard impacts, and so on and so forth as well as teaching you how to get past such things, and how to out maneuver skilled opponents or enemies in general. The customization is good, allowing you to create more out of the ordinary characters, than you could in the others, such as an orc face, cannons, spiked collars, and able to use Standard Soulcalibur characters clothing on custom characters, although the clothing for standard and custom do differ by some degree,so not to copy by too much. graphics are decent for the psp, not too amazing, but not too good, don't go in expecting to see SC4 graphics, the psp isn't that advanced yet. Kratos is a nice addition, fun to use especially if your a fan of the GOW series, but his weapons are not usable, just like The lightsabers in SC4, which is saddening, but oh well, what can you do. Dampiere is okay, I personally didn't like him, but he is funny to use, when used properly ( I used his weapons for custom characters since i didn't like him himself) The game has its own little list of achievements so to speak, so when you do arcade you can feel as though you have a reason. there are 3 different arcade modes, Offensive, defensive, and endless, which you get scored better in for example if doing offensive, you'll want to be more aggressive. for defensive, use perfect guards, impacts, along those lines, where endless is self explanatory. There is another mode which you can gain titles for defeating the person that carries it, the cooler the title the harder the fight, there is no difficulty for it just. Multiplayer is decent, not much to say about it, just beat each other up in Ad-Hoc not much to it. the game all in all is good, not much replay after you beat campaign and get the broken destiny sword, which unfortunately for all the trouble you go through getting through campaign, you just get a sword for Siegfried, very depressing. but other than that the game is a good pick up if you want to learn the mechanics of Soulcalibur. I hope this has helped in your selection and you find yourself pleased with the purchase of the game
This is another good game in the Soulcalibur series. I'm not to happy with the gameplay though. The Gauntlet really stinks. Instead of a free fight, you have to do what the instructor says other whys you fail the 'chapter'. The only way to have a free fight is to go on Quick Match...and you're not even versing a computer. Just somebody online. The good thing is it has a character creator in which you can make 16 characters. So if you get this game, I would make sure you're gonna play it for a ong time before owning it past the return date.
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Overall rating
2/ 5
Gameplay
3/ 5
Graphics
4/ 5
Sound
5/ 5
Lasting Appeal
1/ 5
PS2Pirate
fromWichita
This game is perfect for:hardcore gamers
Theres no last to the game no modes 0 replay value
PostedDecember 6, 2010
when I bought this game I thought i would be just like SC4 minus the graphics, well the gameplay is just like it, the button inputs and moves are about the same for your character for sc4 which is good except for the button response is slow so you can hardly get any hits in. but the main problem is the main menu game modes are awful. There's the "gauntlet" which is basically a " tutorial adventure" which is pointless. there's the game lobby, where you choose an opponent based on there name and personality. and there's character creation... that's about it. theres no death match, team battle, story mode, for your characters, nothing. so if you bought the game for kratos, just send it back.
This game has plenty of action and it has mostly everything I have expected for this game to have. There are new characters such as Kratos the guy from God of Wars. It also has great settings. Plus the great thing that I liked most of all about this game was that you can create your own characters and use them to fight. Every characters have their own special moves which is cool and there are many modes that you can do such as quick match, trials, creation, training, records, options, and the gallery. The thing that I didnt like about it was that it had no storymode. It also had no tournament. But the graphics, interface, and the sound was good but the story line was so-so for me.The styling, functionality and durability was also cool and good. If you dont like games that when a character gets damaged it can get naked then you shouldnt get it but if you like to see characters naked and you like all the things it has this is the right choice for you. So this game is just like Tekken, so if you liked/loved the game Tekken, I would consider you to get this game. I assure you it wont be a waste of money.
