SAVE $16.29 - Soul Calibur IV $13.70

It's a great fighting game. I am a fan of sparring games like this one and the Mortal Kombat series. This one does a pretty good job graphics and gameplay-wise, but as others have mentioned, the story itself is negligible and it is really only good if you have someone to play against. I think the most frustrating for me was that it does not save the custom characters. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I am pretty sure I'm not. I first spent almost an hour piddling around with all the customizations and coloring of my character, then I played the character a few rounds and like it. I left the game only to return to find that the character was no long there...where did it go?? So every time I want to play a custom character, I have to try and recreate the original. That's pretty annoying. Also, I am known to be a button masher sometimes. This game won't let you do that. I get frustrated easily when my character is just standing there, not doing anything except blocking. I try to do combinations on the fly, by basically making them up and hoping for the best because each character has so many special moves and combinations that I don't have the patience to sit there at stare at the list, which you can only access in the middle of a fight. For a fighting game, it's good if you want to work out some frustration from the real world, like a bad work day. But as a game that has story progression or any kind of logical flow, it falls flat. I gave it a mediocre rating because it doesn't quite rate four stars, but doesn't suck bad enough to be less than three. The game doesn't really suck, but for the amount of money you pay for it, you kind of get gyped. It's just a sparring game. There isn't much to it. Rating: 3 (A. Faiola, 2010-01-18) Product reviewed: Soul Calibur IV

Our Favorite Xbox 360 Game! Highly Recommended! Soul Calibur IV is the most played game on our Xbox! The four of us range from 13 to 48 and all regularly play the game, either against each other, against the computer, or on-line against remote opponents. Here are my observations: + Great Graphics - Outstanding graphics, the settings are simply amazing and the characters interact realistically with the environment (at least more so than in earlier versions) + Intuitive Controls - Character controls are fairly easy to learn and are well thought out, making this less of a "button masher" then other games of its type + Many Modes - Single Player (Story, Tower "Quest", Arcade, Training), Versus (local 2 player), and Xbox Live (fight against on-line opponents, really works well and is a lot of fun) + Character Editor - Allows customization of "basic" characters and allows creation of new characters, a lot of fun once the stock characters become well known. + Expandable - Able to add weapons, armor, and abilities with "gold" earned in the game. Additional characters can be purchased on-line * Special Character - Yoda doesn't really fit into this game but is sort of fun to play, especially after we bought Darth Vader on-line (fighting in the Star Wars settings makes this a lot of fun, indeed) Notes: * Since this is the most played game we have, we downloaded this to our hard drive and found the game does run quicker. * Some of the female characters are fairly scantily clad, and armor can be knocked off in combat, so while it never gets to full "exposure" it does come frightfully close (especially "Ivy") * No real gore, which is a big plus for us This is a very fun fighting game that we all enjoy playing, Highly Recommended! CFH Rating: 5 (CFH, 2010-01-02) Product reviewed: Soul Calibur IV

Almost a year a half since it's release...Very underrated. I've had this game since I bought my Xbox in August of 2008, and it's never really grabbed my attention. I've always been more of a Street Fighter/2-D Fighter guy, and I had only given Soul Calibur 4 one shot way back when. While trying to start selling the majority of my xbox games, I found this, and figured I would try to get as much achievements as I could before I send it off into someone else's hands. 2nd time around I got hooked. Now, this is my first ever Soul Calibur game, so I can't compare it to any of it's predecessor's... There are many characters to choose from, and you can customize their appearance with armor, and colors which is a very nice and appreciated touch. The character creation is a lot better than expected, and is definitly one of the biggest pros of the game. Going online with it is even better. Huge Brownie points. So let's start with what I feel are the pros and cons of this game. PROS: Achievements - This game is definitly an obtainable 1000G's. It's not too easy but not too hard, and should be taking you a minimum for 30+ hours. It's definitly a game you should be proud of for maxing it out. The most annoying thing you'll have to do is beat the game with each character (30+ characters) so that you unlock everyone's weapons which is needed for a certain 50G achievement. Create/Customization - As I said before, one of the biggest pros to this game. Stealing a line from "WWE Raw vs. Smackdown 2010", Soul Calibur 4 "It's your world now". Quite a bit of options for clothes, armor and colors. Easy to pick up - This could be considered a pro or a con. This game is newbie-friendly, Controls are easy, maybe too easy for those who want a game that can't be won by button mashing. CONS: Story Mode - Trash. There is little to no story. Think of somewhere in the midst of Left 4 Dead, and Street Fighter IV. Each character has their own ending cutscene and cutscenes in between fights, that show hints of where the next battle will take place, but that's it. There's your story. There are 5 fights to each character's story and takes about 10 minutes to complete each. I love having the Star Wars characters in the game, but I still have no idea why they are in the game, and why the Lightsabers aren't destroying everythiing in their path. Ring Out - I despise the dang Ringing out in this game. So many times have I been smacking the CPU around like a rag doll, to have them counter, and then ring me out so that I lose. Online, a lot of people will abuse it, and try to force the ring out. In my personal opinion, the game would be much better without the Ring outs. Online Leveling system - I personally don't like it. You get points per match, and it'll tell you how much points you have now, and how much to level up. If you have 200/400, you need to max out your points (400/400), and then win a game. If you have 399/400, and win a match, get 200 points, you don't level up. You have to max your points first, and then win. I personally don't like it, it would be much more fair to level up automatically once you obtain the points. I feel the pros outweight the cons, and it's a fun game if you give it a chance. An obtainable 1000 G's, and I would at least rent the game, or pick it up to keep if you can find for $20 or less. Rating: 4 (Sergio Lamadrid, 2009-12-30) Product reviewed: Soul Calibur IV

Awesome this game is really cool. The graphics are excellent, but it is pretty hard. Yoda is great! Rating: 5 (Katarzyna Kulacz, 2009-12-30) Product reviewed: Soul Calibur IV

Outstanding fighting game and You can be Yoda to boot! Honestly, only reason I put this in my console was to play as yoda. Now that I have, i'm diggin it. Will absolutely be playing this again. Fighting system is balanced and well thought out. Rating: 5 (Merddyn, 2009-09-28) Product reviewed: Soul Calibur IV