Of High Or Low Calibur?
Both, depending on
how you look at it.
From the ‘work of art’ perspective? Well…
I don’t
know how I managed to trick myself into thinking this game would have a good
story. Maybe it’s because they were implementing such “RADICAL” changes… as in
taking the series seventeen years into the future and injecting a fresh dose of
new characters. Characters that they slowly announced details
about, building up to the release of the game. They gave you the impression
that said characters would have significance in said story. I kid you not, one
of them only had ONE LINE in the entire game. Anyway, as far as the rest of the
storyline goes… I’ll give it a grade of an
F– . Just plain bad in almost every way… I understand the story is
usually the last thing people care about when concerning a fighting game. But
then, what’s even the point of adding a story mode if all you’re gonna do is
squeeze out this turd of a campaign?
From the ‘fighting game’ perspective? I’ll give it an A+
It takes everything it’s learned from the previous entries and refines and improves on them… From all the gameplay features to the much loved character creator. Basically an overall better Soul Calibur experience, to be enjoyed by fans or newcomers to the series... as long as all you expect to do is fight your friends and strangers online and off… which I think is what everyone expects anyway… so yeah… just don’t expect something more.