Soul Calibur 4 (360)

So it's been a while since i have been hardcore on any fighter , I played metric shit ton of Tekken, Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. But one series that has kept me coming back is Soul Calibur. It franchise has it all for me tits and weapons(sorry i'm a guy with a fetish for Cold Steel). But besides the eye candy lies a one of the best fighting systems in a videos games, it's pretty much what you make out of it, you want to mash buttons it works or if you want to really Gnaw your teeth into the system you can parry, counter, juggle and combo till your thumbs bleed.



The created characters are pretty deep I'm sure some Message board is going to have a thread for fan created characters you can pretty much make anything. Finally you will be able to take those characters online which is great. My only complaint is that the characters that i think look really good have shitty stats, each piece of armor has stats for your characters, so i have characters to help me get through the incredibly hard Tower of lost souls mode and characters that. but you can play in standard mood where the stats from items are not included. Look its Mega man!!-------------------------------->

The Star Wars characters are really cool rumors that maybe trumors say that the console specific characters (vader for the ps3 and yoda for the 360) are going to available later in some sort of DLC, also the apprentice is rad to play with but you cannot customize him or make custom characters out of the Force users..... NAMCO please let me do it i want to make a bunch of jedi (mainlly a bunch of evil slutty jedi... sigh a boy can dream, shit that was half the reason I bought the game) Also don't expect other Star Wars characters besides maybe Boba Fet, if the had characters like luke or han they would have to pay the actors that played them Royalties so before i get some rabid Star Wars fan pleading on some message board think why they chose those characters in the first place.

That said i am enjoying this game a lot on my own i can't wait to get some friends over have them play on their own then destroy them. Online has lag at times but all in all the experience is what you expect in a arcade. People Spamming the same fucking moves, but you take it in stride. i have still to win a match i got a few runs but the hardcore is already starting to take over the online game. People have been fairly pleasant i only had on guy run his mouth about how bad I'm doing. The older characters have been altered a bit. I was a Raphael player in II but after that Namco keeps nerfing him. Amy is a decent replacement but shes can be countered easily. Voldo and lizardman are getting to tournament play levels. So so far my online experience has been helping me to develop an Stomach ulcer........

Ok now that we have a real review of a game I'm going to explain my method for rating games. don't give scores, not that I'm included on Metacritic anyways. I'm going to list the pros and cons of the game and you need to invest a little mental capital into forming your own opinion. I don't want games to be compared to other games that don't belong for example, you wouldn't compare Polka with Thrash Metal there different and should be looked at differently for what they are. To remove the reviewers personal tastes and preferences. .... SO now that this tirade out of my way.

Pros
Fighting system that caters to the hardcore and the Casual players.
Lots of customization options
A single player challenge mode(tower of souls) that is Hard as shit.

Cons
can't customize the look or make custom characters of the Star wars characters. NAMCO think about, slutty jedi = 1 billion units sold....
if you don't have any friends into fighting games you maybe relying on the online to keep you playing, so this is going to depend heavily to the Soul Calibur community to do this.
Versus options are kinda lackluster i wish there was more modes to do, tag matches or