![]() Wins & loses are visible but don’t affect your ranking. Waiting players can chat & watch the ongoing matches. ![]() Online Player Matches: more casual matches, you can join or create a room of up to six queued combatants.SCV also allows you to have Rivals & follow their progress. Online Ranked Matches: the core of the game, your wins & loses in this mode affect your online ranking.Creation: lets you create a new fighter using unlocked fighting styles.Legendary Souls: an extra hard Arcade mode unlocked by completing the Story.Also include a Battle Theater mode where you can watch CPU vs CPS fights. VS Battle: your standard VS system where you can fight against a friend or an CPU.Quick Battle: an offline mode where you can search for player-created characters to fight for titles.Arcade: an offline mode where you fight through six random stages ending in a boss fight & get a ranked timed score.The game offers several different gameplay modes, both off & online: You can also use it to execute Guard Impacts, which are capable of blocking any move. Or you can save it to level two & unleashed a devastating Critical Edge attack, which can take out one-third of your opponent’s health. The gauge has two levels: after the first level, you can use it to unleash a Brave Edge attack, which is basically a suped-up special attack. This meter, visible beside the health bar, slowly fills throughout the match with each strike, block & hit. The most important one is the Critical Gauge. Keep your chainmail bikinis.Īlthough the fighting mechanics are more or less the same as in previous titles, there have been a few new features added. The story follows Patroklos as he tries to save his sister Pyrrha, who was kidnapped by Tira when she was a child in order to become a vessel for Soul Edge. The Story Mode takes a break from other fighting games by, instead of having a loose story for each character in the game, primarily following Patroklos, Sophitia’s son. Seventeen years after these events, the world is being overrun with the Malfested, former humans who have been tainted by Soul Edge. Siegfried defeated Nightmare, but Soul Edge disappeared. It’s always hard to follow the plot in fighting games from one version to the next, but SCV is kind enough to offer an opening cutscene to let us know the canon ending from the previous game. Ezio’s the only likable character on this cover ![]() At this point I’ve completed the Story Mode, created several original fighters which I have used for the Arcade, Quick Battle & Online matches. But after having spent a bit of time in all of the various game modes (except online ranked matched) I feel that I have a good understanding of what Soul Calibur V has to offer fighting fans. After all, it’s not a genre of game that you ever really finish. It’s difficulty to decide when you’re qualified to review a fighting game.
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