Another soul worth devouring? Yes.
To start off, how does it look? Simple answer. It looks fantastic. The characters have never been so brightly detailed in all my life. They look absolutely splendid, the stages look fantastic, not to mention character creation characters look good as well. It's everything you'd expect SC4 SHOULD look like on the PS3.
Sadly, the story cannot compare to it. But then again, I always thought SC sucked in that department. There's just so much sword hunting and soul devouring you can take after 4 games. There's also the standard Arcade mode where you fight enemies etc, the typical. As well, there's the new Tower of the Souls mode where you simply climb a large tower fighting enemies, fulfilling certain requirements to gain items.
However, the single player aspect of the game really lack any real depth to it. It doesn't feel complete, it's just there for you to get characters, get gold or anything.
So does the multiplayer chalk it back up? Of course it does. Though there's a lack of any team battles, multiplayer is fun and exciting. With pretty much a full roster of characters dating since SC1, it's not hard to find a favorite and stick with it. Add in the Star Wars characters, and you've got a neat line up of characters that anyone will find appealing. The battles in multiplayer are pretty much the same as you'd expect in SC. Horizontal attacks, vertical attacks, kicks, guard, the same works. But this time, they reworked the guarding system, hate those guys who do single hits on you and block till the timer goes down? Well Namco added in something called Armor Break (Pretty sure that's not the name, but whatever.) So you can actually lose your guard and be vulnerable for something called a Critical Finish. A new move that only works when the opponent's armor is broken and you've pressed a certain button combination. Critical Finish allows you quickly win the battle in one swoop. Now this might seem unfair, but armor over time regenerates, meaning if you're gauge is blinking red, attack back! Simple.
Another feature they added to the game was Character Creation. Those who remember it from SC3 know what this is. It allows you to create a character, or even customize current characters to your need. Altering costumes, weapons etc. This time around however, they simplified character creation to styles of characters already in game. (Except for the Star Wars characters.) They added a ton of more customizable items, from head to toe, from white to black coloring, it's all in there.
Lastly, you can also in the Options menu, install the game onto the HDD if you find loading times to be long, though I haven't tested the times yet, things seem to load a lot faster to me. You can also change the voices to Japanese, but Japanese Darth Vader voice? C'mon!
There isn't much else to say if you've already played previous Soul Caliburs, this one will be no different. However, give it a try anyways, you just might be surprised.