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User Rating: 6 | SoulCalibur IV PS3
Admittedly I didn't have too high expectations since I'm more of a 2D fighting game fan but.. it should have at least been better than Soul Calibur 3.

If you are a fan of Soul Calibur and loved it for it's game mechanics, then you should probably skip this review because they at least stayed loyal to their basics. However if you liked Soul Calibur for Chronicles of the Sword and the character customization, then you're in for a nasty surprise.

The story mode felt short and rushed out, you fight a few enemies without any real dialogues and then get a random ending thrown at you. So don't be expecting too much from that.

Although they removed Chronicles of the Sword, they added Tower of Lost Souls which will keep you occupied for a while. You basically defeat enemies and move higher up the tower, and you can unlock new armor pieces under certain conditions.

However now your armor gives you stats! which for some people might be nice, but I found this extremely annoying. Since you can't really make a nice looking character without it having nicely balanced stats. So you either get a useless good looking character, or a ridiculously looking useful character.

You can also level styles up, which goes to 9 and the more you unlock the more skills you can use for that character (like reducing the odds of getting ringed out). I didn't really find this necessary since fighting games should mostly revolve around skill.

Anywayyy if you just love Soul Calibur's gameplay and don't mind a disappointing, corny and short story mode, lack of "Chronicles of the Sword" and annoying character customization. Then I do suggest getting this game, if you do mind then I you should let this one slide.