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Amazing sequel to the Soul series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Soul series has come to near-perfection with this gem. Every one of the series was cutting edge for its time, and this is no exception. Namco has greatly increased the attack combinations in the 8-way-run spectrum, revised grappling, and introduced some new characters to spice it up.

The museum is not as impressive as in Soul Calibur (1) but the gameplay has advanced immensly, and is entirely a quantum leap over Soul Blade (Edge). The graphics are beautiful and smooth, and the replay value is incredible.

For anyone who has the earlier versions of this weapons-based fighter, or for fighting game entusiests, this one is a must-have!

Soul Calibur II lives up to it's rep

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you loved the 1st one you'll love the second one. Great 3-D action and better choices for battlefields. You won't be disappointed.

Total awesomeness....o_o

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my favourite fighting games, but one piece of advice...JUST GO AND BUY IT. Renting it really sux, cuz there's lots in this game to unlock and discover. I ended up renting it four times before i finally bought the damn thing. But besides that...

This is truely an awesome fighting game. The controls are simple and combos and special moves are really kool and easy to do. The gameplay is fun and enjoyable and its really a blast to play. I found the single player "Weapons Master" to be really long and in all the times renting it, I still didnt beat it (my above advice still stands). But anyways, the game also has a lot to unlock. The Weapons Master single player mode offers a bit of a role-playing game feel to it, but of course is obviously still a fighting game. Recommend this one, for people who like anything from action, role-playing, or fighting games.

Great Deals and Service

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Great deals and service. Just wish they carried X-Box Version games : ( But would like to say thanks for the service : )

This game rocks!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. Okay you can play up to 15 characters, including yoshimitsu, Lizardman, Ivy, and more. You can go through arcade mode, weapon masters, and other game modes suck as practice. You can train your favorite character to learn new moves. I'm telling you now anyone who likes fighting games should get Soul Calibur 2!

Greatest fighting game of all time!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Like I already said, this is the greatest game of all time. I play this every day, and it will keep you playing. This game has the best musical pieces in any game out there I've played, hundreds of sound effects, many unlockable characters, such as Cervantes, the undead pirate, Seung Mina, the halberd-weilding fighter, and Charade, the mimicking floating rock formation that randomly chooses a fighter and weapon for you to fight with, along with a total of 80+ unlockable features and movies. And, the best opening movie ever! Just rent it-you'll see what I mean. It only starts to get boring once you get everything and beat Weapon Master mode fully and completely. Overall, I would give it a 5/5.

Possibly the most ADDICTIVE ARCADE GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was waiting for this game for a long time.
Whenever I went to the arcade, I'd spend most of my quarters on this game. It's a lot like Tekken because the gameplay is similar. Each version (PS2 GameCube or Xbox) has a special character. PS2 has Hehachi from Tekken, GameCube has Link from The legend of Zelda, and Xbox has Spawn. (I don't know what game Spawn is from). So anyway, It's an awesome game!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of Fun

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I really liked Soul Calibur II. It is, simply put, a lot of fun. The fighting style and graphics are excellent, and there are lots of features to keep it interesting. Here is a breakdown:

1. The fighting itself is awesome. It is easy enough for almost anyone to do it, but complicated enough to stay interesting. There are many different moves to try, and they don't all have crazy million-button pushes to activate them like some games do. The graphics are pretty darned good, too. The fighting looks cool, but is fake enough to still be fun.

2. Most of the characters are pretty solid. There are a few butt-ugly ones, but most of them look good and are interesting. A lot of the "secret" characters are Tekken characters, which I thought was kind of weird. If I wanted to play Tekken, I would just get Tekken. So a little more originality would have been nice.

3. The features are really good. There is an Arcade mode, of course, and your typical "Time," "Team," "Versus," and "Survival" modes that most fighting games have. This one also has a "weapon master" mode, which has a sort of story line. You go from place to place, fight different things with unique goals, and win money and experience. These you can use to buy more weapons, stages, and even more clothes. Whoopee! It really is kind of neat.

4. I also like the fact that there are LOTS of different things to unlock, and most of them do not require dumb luck or a wasted hour on the internet reading a hundred faqs or something. I HATE it when you have to dig through pages and pages of online player manuals only to find out that the only way get a "secret" character is to fight Mr. Smith 7,829 in a row or something stupid.

Overall this is a nearly perfect fighting game. I had a hard time putting it down when I first got it, and I think you will too. And parents, it probably is not quite appropriate for your smaller kids, but it's your call. There is no blood or nasty deaths, but it is a pretty violent game.

Great Fighting Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm more of a fan of RPG/Strategy games than action/fighting games, but sometimes you need a little change of pace, which is why I purchased this game, and I'm glad I did.
As far as I'm concerned, the Soul Calibur series has the greatest characters and gameplay of any fighting series out there. Whether playing 1 or 2 player, this game is a blast. There are a whopping seven different game modes, including a quest mode with a simple storyline where you can unlock playable characters, outfits, environments, features, different weapons, and a ton more unlockables. A huge amount of variety for a fighting game, though I do wish they could have added a little more depth to this adventuring aspect of the game. But yes, it is just a fighting game...although a damn good one.
Highly recommended for fans of fighting games or people just looking for a change of pace.
On a final note, Taki in her red ninja outfit is[...]amazing. Wow.

It's fun enough, but there are a few problems

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Soul Calibur 2 was my introduction to Namco's fighting games.

Okay, first things first. I'm not a big fan of "Dial-A-Combo". I hated the Mortal Kombat series because of that. "Ooh, circle-circle-square-up-down-up-down-triangle-x-x-x-R1 and you do a 57 bazillion hit combo that kills them, their family and blows up the background!" Really, how can anyone enjoy that? It doesn't take involvement, but rather just punching in a code to get an effect. But to each their own, right?

So SC2's fighting style appeals to me. You can be as combo-ish as you like, or simply fight it out using a couple of moves and good timing. Yay for the combat engine.

Now let's look at how they assembled the game.

The Good: Good fighting engine. Discovering moves and stuff is pretty cool.

I like the tutorial, where each move is shown, described in terms of "Throw" or "Block Breaker" or whatever. That's helpful.

Different arenas with different challenges. It tests your ability to use the character to accomplish a goal that's not quite so "straight-line" as simply defeating an opponent. Knock them off the edge, or throw them or... whatever.

The movement in and on the female characters is LOVELY. Distracting, even. It distracted my girlfriend, and that led to some interesting discussion. Um... right. Moving on.

The Bad: The scripting and the dialogue are HORRIBLE. Oh by the gods, if you want to torture someone, make them sit through an hour of that calibre writing and voice acting. Ladies, if he'll do that for you, it's love.

Character pre-fight babble kinda falls under this area, as well as Stupid Announcer Guy who for some reason you simply can't deactivate. Very few of the characters have anything cool to say before the fight, and the two coolest are Necron and Voldo (who don't say anything intelligible).

Stupid Announcer Guy should be dragged on-camera at the end of the game and shot through the head (along with the option to turn his annoying voice OFF) because for that kind of reward, I'll kick anyone's [...].

So, really Namco, IMPROVE THE FREAKIN' VOICE ACTING. Also, the script is awful. I've seen fourteen year olds drunk on angst and cheap beer write better stuff. If you're payin', I'm for hire.

Really.

The Mediocre: Someone noted that there's a lot of talk about "souls" in this. I agree. There's too much. It's one thing to make a plot point, and quite another to beat someone over the head with it until they run bleeding into the hills.

The song and dance at the end is a bit... Ehh. Victory doesn't quite feel like you won anything, but rather a sense of "Oh... it seems I'm done."

I like the different outfits you can get, and the weapons. What I don't like is that the weapons can be worse than useless, and you won't know until you've already bought them. Apparently computer characters can't comparison shop.

Another weakness is the re-loading in all of the dungeon levels. It doesn't take a real long time, but it's a sloppy bit of programming that could have, and should have, been caught and fixed.

Also, I wouldn't mind being able to choose an outfit I like from the get-go. It's cute to buy them, but it gets really old really quick when they're priced at 5000% more than the weapons. Who knew getting dressed was so pricey?

The story-arc is completely unsatisfying, the song and dance at the end is weak, but the fighting can be a lot of fun. All in all, three stars.

Now, if Namco improves the writing, the acting and lets us do something a little more creative with the outfits, plus more intelligent endings, it'll be an awesome game to play.

That's my take. 3 stars, no waiting.

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