


Anything from the dancer class could use deadly tambourines to a ninja class that fought using a giant shuriken. The ONLY way to fight like these characters was to make your own character of this type.

To do this, you picked one of the preexisting characters and you'd fight like them.īut in III? III gave you the ability to pick additional jobs as well that you could unlock over time. In IV and V when you made a character, you got to pick how your character fought. Sure, SoulCalibur's IV and V also had create-a-player modes, but in addition to having surprisingly less customization items, they also took a big step back in another field. Plus, Namco, if we're being real here, in addition to a wealth of unlockables, you could TOTALLY make a mint with DLC if you just stuck with it. Just seeing the crazy characters people come up with would be worth the price of admission. I can't even imagine how amazing a fighting game would be that would give you this variety of customization characters AND the ability to have a solid, online, multiplayer component. You could play for months and keep finding new ways to unlock new things for your custom character all the way up to the final item set the pieces necessary to recreate KOS-MOS from Xenosaga. SoulCalibur III, to this day, has one of the best character creators in a fighting game outside of a WWE title.
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I'm going to break this into two parts, and you're going to see why when I get to number three. No weird magic balls, no animal spirits, just solid weapons giving the game a more satisfying feel. Plus, unlike with V, everyone used weapons. You could spend hours playing as Kilik only to switch to Voldo and feel like you're playing a fresh new game. Not only does the roster already contain more characters than most new fighters ( Pokkén and Street Fighter V I'm looking at you here) but each character has its own diverse feel. Now, Namco, I know you're probably not listening, but if you are here's a list of why SoulCalibur III was the perfect reason to drop $60+ on a fighting game.
