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"Soul Caliber 2"

Really loving this game at the moment. ;-) Spawn is the nuts ! Beat the game with a few characters and now I'm playing the weapons master mode. Unlocked Yoshimitsu and I'm hoping to get Sheung Mina as soon as possible as shes one of my favourite characters in the series. :-)

Anyone else got hold of this title and playing it to death like me ? ;-))

i'm now on the extra missions too...
i've mainly used talim cos she rox...seriously quick and has some wicked combos.
i'm dead impressed with the game

Since completing it, it has displayed the map with only half the levels complete - I'll be pursuing completion of these later on.

I ain't unlocked everything - but bought a lot of the weapons with the large amounts of cash I gained throughout the game.

Done all the extra missions and stuff too in weapons master mode Edgy ? ;-) I tended to use Nightmare for the job. This game has kept me playing non stop all weekend into the stupid hours of the morning. ;-))

At least I've unlocked everything now though so I won't end up going to work knackered now. ;-))

I haven't really touched my Cube much, bar SOA:L, because of the lack of new games.

Now I've got CDS:II, FF and Soul Calibur 2 on the way.

Soul Calibur 2 is the first game in a long, long time to keep me glued to my GameCube.

Yes, I got the GameCube version (thankyou for the GAD SR :D) because I am a fan of old-skool Zelda and Link be in it.

I haven't noticed any major differences between the Xbox demo and GameCube full game mind (other than the demo is a demo and the full game isn't :D). They both play very well.

Have completed Weapon Master Mode as Link - and am now playing the Original Arcade mode.

Best 3D beat-em-up I've ever played.

Nice one Lou - go get the game, its superb. ;-)

Tekken doesn't get the hype Soul Caliber does because overall, it doesn't really warrant hype. When Tekken 2 was on the way, people raved about it. But over the last couple of years, Tekken games have become rush jobs and the series actually seems to be getting worse with every game. I played Tekken 4 and found it barely playable. Suddenly its become almost impossible to control the characters properly without covering your thumbs in blisters, the character line up is going downhill and its just becoming damn boring as a story to follow. Its like they've just thrown any old crud together now just to get a new Tekken game out.

So far Soul Caliber hasn't suffered from the same situation. The game is a dream to control - certainly shows that beat em up games can work well on an XBox controller. The story is decent, you have the weapons master mode to collect all the different weapons which have they're own attributes and there are loads of excellent characters in the game. I think Soul Caliber even manages to achieve something that just about every other beat em up can't as well - creating big powerful characters that are actually likeable and just as fun to use as the fast characters.

I mean lets face it, there aren't too many people fighting over the likes of Jack from Tekken, Zangief from Streetfighter and Bass from DOA3. But the likes of Nightmare and Asteroth in Soul Caliber have a real powerful presence about them and they look excellent.
So for me overall, Tekken is a dying series while Soul Caliber is very much in its prime.

Well I may not have to wait until Saturday to get Soul Calibur 2 now, I was looking through my PS2 and GC games and there's 7 that I don't play anymore so I'll just trade them in for Soul Calibur. And if I get a good enough trade price I'll pick up Freedom Fighters too, supposing I have to put a little cash towards it as well.

:)

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> only the fact that Soul Calibur is quicker and there are weapons.

When did I deny it?

Soul Calibur is the most over rated game I have ever played.

Its ridiculous.

Soul Caliber is alot more fluid than Tekken.

It seams everyone disagrees with you Alistair. It must mean you're wrong. :)