It's a beautiful beatiful seen, it's soul calibur (Soul Calibur (DC))

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Product:	Soul Calibur (DC)
Date:	17/07/01 (15 review reads)
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Advantages: Loads of moves, Fast, Good weapons inventory

Disadvantages: No sequel yet!

Fantastic - the overall best fighting game for DC, there are literally hundreds of different moves, many unique to each character, and the best thing is that you can easily get away with almost random button-bashing resulting in a fairly impressive martial arts display. The major change is blocking which must now be done by pressing a button instead of going back on the d-pad, but this comes easily after a bit of re-adjustment and is more than made up for by the introduction of true 8-way movement.

In fact, this 8-way movement business brings a whole new tactical side to the genre where-by, just like in real fights, it's now much harder to hit a canny opponent. Combine that with blocking and two good players can go a fairly long time without actually doing any damage, and it looks fan-bloody-tastic. Especially as the pace of the game is so smooth and fast.

Soul Calibur would be worth buying for the amazing graphics alone, fortunately Namco have really outdone themselves in terms of pure addictive gameplay as well and each of the characters are almost totally equally balanced (though that may not be apparent at first).

I could easily carry on about this game, it has after all become one of my all time favourites, but suffice it to say that if you own or have access to a Dreamcast then you must, repeat must, get Soul Calibur or you'll regret it for the rest your life

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