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The best Dreamcast has to offer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Best game on Dreamcast, and my all-time favorite fighting game. Replay value is excellent, gameplay is just fantastic.

This game has a lotta' soul!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Quite possibly the best game put out by Sega for its Dreamcast console. The graphics on this game are amazing. Years after its release it is still putting some games to shame. Buy a copy. Soon.

Greatest Fighter Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is just as good as Soul Calibur 2 and its a wonder how Dreamcast died with so many amazing games this being the best along with Grandia 2, Crazy Taxi and Jet Grind Radio. Any way i highly recommend you play this or Soul Calibur 2 and be completely amazed.

Amazing fighter for the DC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

In comparison to Soul Blade, this game is a towering improvement. To Soul Calibur II, it is a little behind, but then, it was released 5 years prior. This also represents a very smooth transition of storylines from the first to the second in the series.

Combat commands in the straight spectrum are highly developed, though 8-way-run attacks are limited to two or three basic attacks. Still, the game is very fun, and fun to play over and over for a long span of time. The voice-over/narrator guy is hillarious also.

This game's museum mode has 335 pieces of unlockable artwork and different skins and modes, as well as more than 10 unlockable characters. The first set of museum pieces completely explains the Soul storyline, and the events that lead up to where the game is; something you have to nit-pick through in SCII to figure out just what happened since this installment. For Dreamcast collectors, or fighting game enthusiests, I highly-reccomend this game.

Welcome back to the stage of history

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Soul Caliber - Circa 2001

GOOD:
- Good/Tight controls
- Nicely balanced gameplay
- Lots of different and unique fighters
- Minutes to learn years to master gameplay
- Some nice unlockables like new Fighters, costumes, stages and other bonuses
- A 3D fighting game that really uses the 3D space (with eight way run)
- Considered a classic to many hardcore fighting fanatics

BAD:
- Non- traditional fighting gameplay, might alienate some more traditional fighting game fans
- Have to unlock most of the game through the story/quest mode

IF IT FITS YOUR TASTE:
- Has medieval theme, both European and Chinese/Japanese
- Not traditional fighting game in the sense that there is no real combos and supers, or even projectile moves
- Game has built in quest mode, where you pick a fighter and complete a number of challenges, the end result is you unlock more content and are a better player
- Fight with weapons, like a 3D Samurai Showdown

GAME ITS MOST ASSOCATED TOO:
- Soul Caliber 2
- Tekken 3
- Samurai Showdown

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- You can unlock a mode that lets you Customize your intro (by picking who will be in the intro of the game at which points)

Ages like a fine wine.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Not that this game is "old", but when you consider it's a game from 1999 that's exclusive to a dead console system, it's amazing to realize that this game is arguably better than any other combat game out there even today. The graphics made full use of the Dreamcast's capabilities, and even now it is one of the most beautiful games I've ever seen. The combat moves are fluid and based on real martial arts...there is even a martial arts display mode where you can see all the characters doing various weapon katas! It is a good game for both button mashers and pros. There is no "blood" which makes it a bit unrealistic when you see someone getting hacked with a huge axe and not bleeding; but that doesn't detract from the experience because this isn't that sort of game. The abundance of modes allows for a high replay value. The only thing I would knock is the end-stories, which are a bit corny and considering the animation in the gamplay itself, it feels a bit like a copout to see the endings as just still life. However, that's all nitpicking.

This game is the reason to buy a dreamcast, and it is still worth it to buy this game and then go find someone selling a dreamcast so you can buy and play it. Have fun!

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is, without exception, the BEST FIGHTING GAME EVER MADE. PERIOD

Read the other reviews, everything positive said about this game is true. I know thats a bold statment but graphics, gameplay, story, modes, music, replayabilty is all EXCELLENT.

Don't listen to any Sony fanboys that are mad that Soul Calibur was a Dreamcast exclusive - It truly does live up to the "hype" (Its not really hype when its absolutely true, utterly amazing)

I hope you have the chance to enjoy the fighting game to end all fighting games.

A Huge Dissapointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For The Love Of God Don't Believe The Hype! This game had so many people kissing it's butt it wasn't funny. I got it and it was a huge let down. Soul Blade on psone was better then this! Sure it's all pretty, but it's basically just a virtua fighter clone with wepons and smaller backgrounds.alot of the charactors are basicly the same (Astoroth&Rock/Mina&Kilick/Lizardman&Sophitia/Inferno&Edgemaster) The backgrounds while pretty are basically just the old 2-D backdrops used on the first 3-D fighters. The "innovative" world tour mode had been done in SFA3 already so that wasn't a huge plus either. Dead or Alive 2 kicked this things butt as did the painfull to play VF3. If you have either of those forget about this.

Way ahead of its time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the definitive evolution in fighting games. I grew up on Street Fighter, then switched to Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Guilty Gear, Powerstone, etc... but nothing has ever captured the essence of fun as much as the Soul Calibur series has done. This is the one fighting game that strangely does not turn off those who are not into fighting games. It is accessible enough to newcomers for them to just pick up and have fun with, yet at the same time, it holds the depth that will keep veteran gamers playing this for years as long as they have access to good human competition. The characters are not completely balanced, but that won't become noticeable until you actually play against really good people for a long while. Still, none of the characters are a waste and the variety of fighting styles are extremely well thought out and fun to watch. I especially like how they have an exhibition mode where you can just watch characters performed their motion captured katas by themselves in an empty ring. This game is simply beautiful in many ways.

Yes this is the greatest fighting game ever made...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm make this short and sweet. This is the greatest fighting game ever. And this is a DC exclusive and will forever be one of the best DC games ever. It has everything I love about fighting games. First off the visuals are just so juicy. Not as sharp as SC2 but still great visuals even for this time of the year. The game has some really great things added to this DC version such as a mission mode, it's like a story mode, what you do is buy art galleries to start new mission, trust me it'll keep you in for weeks especially since it's for EVERY CHARACTER! The game has some other neat things added to this game such as

Practicemode
Mission Mode
Survival Mode
ARCADE MODE, which you can unlock characters.

And some other neat things but I will tell you right now if you do have a Dreamcast don't keep it to dust and play GTA on your Ps2. You need this game for the Dreamcast. This is one of the reasons people got a Dreamcast....I got it as a gift from my aunt and took advantage of it by getting the games..And this gem was one of them. Listen..do your self a favor and get this game...heck even Gamespot gave this game 10 and it's extreamly hard getting a good score on this game.. The visuals arn't as great as SC2 and that is pretty much the only thing wrong with it.. Bottom line

Good
Superb Visuals on the DC
Great extras for the DC version
MISSION MODE ROCKS
Controlls are easy to get use to
Loads of play time and Arcade Mode is a blast

Bad..
Hmmm....Nothing

Ugly
Nothing...

GREATEST FIGHTING GAME EVER ONLY ON THE DREAMCAST!

I give it a 5 out of 5 stars!!

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