Sporadic difficulty, poor gameplay, short, and just an all around waste of time.
User Rating: 4 | SoulCalibur IV PS3
Since no doubt every fanboy and their mother is going to spaz at my review, let me qualify my statements. In story mode, the difficulty is so piss easy I could play the game in my sleep, which makes it boring. I can mash throw all day and never need to change it up. Now, to get a challenge I decided to play the tower mode. At about floor 39-41, i ran into a brick fricken wall of stupidity. It had been very difficult before then, but never stupidly difficult. In this case, they blocked nearly every move, throws were still effective, but the 9 on 1 scenerio made the speed of the computer, mixed with perfect counters/stuns/throws/quick attacks absolutely obsurd. So that being said, I tried to learn the controls, which were unintuitive and poorly designed, and the layout of how you were supposed to press them were terrible and buggy. Numerous times I'd have hit the right combination the right way, but god forbid I didn't do it at the exact pace the game wanted, so my guy stood there like a monkey and got his head cut off. The ridiculousness of the controls makes the game frustrating, added with the difficulty of the later levels in the tower mode, you have a game that makes throwing the controller likely.
So, to give it one last shot, I tried to play it with a friend, who got equally upset that the game was a button mashing fest. No controls were useful, just slam your controller against your head until you win.
This game was poorly designed, poorly made, and just all around terrible. If you're 14 looking for a pair of melons to jerk off to, you'll love it, but thats about it.
(each story mode takes about 10 minutes to beat, so all in all you can beat the entire "game" in about 2 hours)
Don't even waste your time on this terrible game.
(oh the fanboys sure love my review... 0-6 recommendations. Nicely done.)
