This was at a Bandai Namco event in Paris, which showcased a number of their upcoming games, including Dragon Ball FighterZ and Code Vein – which we’ll have separate reports on later.īandai Namco also had a wide range of other games on display, including Ni No Kun II (which looked great but wasn’t showing anything new), One Piece: World Seeker (an open world adventure that was surprisingly reminiscent of Assassin’s Creed, and will likely have a much wider appeal than usual in the West), One Piece: Grand Cruise (a newly announced VR game), and Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 for Switch (complete with a fun new co-op mode). SoulCalibur VI was announced earlier in the month, and on Friday we were amongst the first in the world to get a chance to play the game. Making the third game a PlayStation exclusive was clearly a mistake, and while all of the sequels were of a good quality the fourth and fifth ones began to rely too much on their guest characters, while inexplicably failing to take advantage of the originals’ innovative single-player options. But since then the series has seemed to lose it way. The series really began in 1995 with spiritual predecessor Soul Edge (released as Soul Blade on Western consoles), and then continued in 2002 with the excellent SoulCalibur II. At the time it was a revolution in both graphics and gameplay, with a unique weapons-based combat system and a single-player mode that, almost uniquely amongst fighting games, was actually worth your time. We think that’s because, unlike something like Final Fantasy or Street Fighter, the first SoulCalibur was a modern-looking 3D game. SoulCalibur reaching its 20th anniversary somehow seems more shocking than any other recent milestone.
GameCentral plays the long-awaited return of SoulCalibur, and talks to its producer about the chances of a Switch version… SoulCalibur VI – return to the stage of history
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