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Thunder

Posted: Jul 19 2007, 11:52 AM

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Soulcalibur Legends is an affront to the games industry. The horrendous gameplay and horrible graphics not only shame the Wii as a platform, but lowers the reputation of a remarkable franchise. Wii fans should be appalled at Namco's clear lack of concern with the title, and should expect more.

Graphically speaking, Legends is nothing short of unacceptable. If the game could even remotely look like Soulcalibur 2 on Gamecube, we'd be, at the very least, satiated. Instead, what we saw were blocky recreations of our Soulcalibur favorites trapped in boring, poorly textured environments that make the Dreamcast original look like a modern technical achievement. There is absolutely nothing to praise about the visuals in Legends: the art is generic, and the characters are stiff and lifeless. The screenshots that have been released are poor representations on how this game really looks.

The gameplay doesn't fare any better. Legends is a mindless hack and slash with poor controls. Enemies stand around, dumbfounded, as you hack away at them by shaking the Wiimote. The combat is imprecise, and simply not fun. We did appreciate the dodge: shaking the Nunchuck will allow players to make a quick dash. There was no challenge, nor depth to the battles. Ultimately, each encounter was reduced to wild waggle sessions. Wii owners deserve a lot better than this -- Namco, we'd point to Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as an example on how to properly implement sword attacks in an adventure game (and please learn how to create a proper lock-on!).

If we had to give an award for most underwhelming disappointment of the show, Soulcalibur Legends is an easy candidate. Unless this game goes under a serious redesign, don't expect the first Soulcalibur game on Wii to be anything more than a complete disaster.

http://wii.joystiq.com/2007/07/18/joystiq-...ur-legends-wii/

Dang, great potential right down the drain. Oh well, atleast there's Soul Calibur IV.

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quintorro	Posted: Jul 19 2007, 12:27 PM
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Vorxis

Posted: Jul 19 2007, 12:59 PM

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QUOTE (quintorro @ Jul 19 2007, 12:27 PM)

I'll try it for myself regardless.

Same here. I'd rather test it myself.

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Kojjiro the maeon	Posted: Jul 23 2007, 07:57 AM
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Rage	Posted: Jul 23 2007, 08:36 PM
Phillip Banks Group: Members Posts: 20961 Member No.: 13 Joined: 13-October 03 Status: (0d)	I don't recall Namco making good spin-offs of games like these so I wasn't really expecting too much from this game. :P I'm just hoping SCIV is at least as good as or better than SCI (though I'm not sure how they'll do that since its hailed as a masterpiece lol). -------------------- CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY half-naked dragon chick queen of the castle queen of the castle a lost cause chicks galore

FREAK51	Posted: Jul 25 2007, 09:10 AM
Regular Group: Members Posts: 702 Member No.: 2380 Joined: 25-July 06 Status: (0d)	That source sucks, it's saying the graphics are worse then the first Soul Calibur on DC. EDIT BETTER COMPARISON This post has been edited by FREAK51 on Jul 25 2007, 09:17 AM --------------------

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