Soul Calibur Legends - Wii (11/20/2007)

[RyokoYaksa]

Name: Soul Calibur Legends
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Developer/Publisher: Namco Bandai
Projected release date: 11/20/2007

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3159324
"We have little doubt Namco Bandai's working on a full-fledged fighting Soul Calibur sequel, but they're preparing a little diversion for the Nintendo fans in the audience: Soul Calibur Legends. Exclusive to the Wii platform, Soul Calibur Legends involves plenty of combat, but not in the traditional Soul Calibur sense -- this one's a third person action adventure."

Since the announcement has only been made recently, there are no development screens to speak of. Only a couple of wallpaper size artworks.


*NEW* Magazine scans!


To be truthful, I am very excited to see this coming.

 

[NG7]

Wow cool!

Where's Taki? :B

 

[RyokoYaksa]

Here's a quote from the 2nd paragraph of the article:

The announcement suggests Seigfried takes point in the storyline, but Namco Bandai promises players will play their favorites from the series -- and even introduce some new faces, too. We know little of the story, though, other than understanding the characters come together to complete "a quest for ultimate power in order to save an empire from destruction."

In other words Taki must be playable.

 

[Mic_128]

Who's Seigfried? EDIT: Oh, Nightmare.

All I can say is that this better turn out better than the MK Non-fighting games.

 

[NG7]

DAhahaha.

I remember Sub-Zero Mythologies on 64.

I thought the 3D one with Liu Kang and Kung Lao was pretty fun though.

This game will be using Wii-mote i assume? For some reason i can't open that page :/

 

[Numa Dude]

I can't wait to kick *** with my boy Yoshimitsu again.

 

[OmegaXXII]

from looking at the wallpapers I believe that this game will be tight as ****, hell maybe even better than those Mk adventure games

 

[J Flo]

Beautiful artwork. Can't wait for more details from Namco!

 

[WaterTails]

OMIGOSH! hope they don't **** this up like they did with SCIII

 

[Volrec]

I hope I get to whoop some with my boy Maxito!!!

 

[Toologist]

Well, remember that Namco did make a bad spin-off adventure game of an awesome fighting franchise. Death by Degrees, anyone?

But then again, this is looking awesome. And, I loved Soul Calibur III. =/

 

[RyokoYaksa]

I, for one, am doing my very best to forget Death by Degrees. Unfortunately I'm not doing a good job of that. ><

Hopefully Namco wised up from Death by Degree's shortcomings.

 

[freeman123]

I'll pass. Let me know when Soul Calibur 4 comes out.

 

[Chinkku397]

I Can't Wait!!!! Soul Cal!!!

 

[RyokoYaksa]

Added scans from some Japanese mag in the topic post.

 

[NG7]

WTF. Astaroth looks huge!

 

[valtiel]

This is interesting I suppose. I don't really have high hopes for this though. I personally think this is a bad idea...=[

 

[titus]

anything with soul calibur is good. i didnt like the custom chars in 3 though. i thought they needed more variety.

@Mic_128
siegfried is not nightmare. nightmare is a part of siegfried, cuz siegfried was made first.

 

[Zabutur]

Is Link going to be in it like he was in one of the others?

 

[El HP]

Looks good reminds me of ninja gaiden.

 

[Paranoid_Android]

If this game is half as impressive as its artwork, I'll be picking up a copy.

 

[WaterTails]

Nintendo Power had this in the latest issue, http://www.nintendopower.com/home

I'll take some scans from it soon!

 

[Creo]

WTF. Astaroth looks huge!

As he always does...

Is Link going to be in it like he was in one of the others?

We don't know yet but I wouldn't mind if he had a different moveset. Except, keep his whacking but with sword attack...that was awesome. Can't wait to play Kilik and Talim once again...any news of online?

 

[Stryks]

Wow gotta say it looks freaking awesome, I hope we can use Nightmare, cause I dont like siegfried that much, and astaroth looks bigger than normal, I hope they improved the graphics, I mean i know its just a few screens, but for e.x. the lizardman looks hell ugly...

 

[Creo]

WEll I am sure it will have some enhanced graphics because this is a franchise that does kind of push graphics. I never liked LM. I hope it is GC controler compatible because the Wiimote will be weird and tiring.

 

[Mr.GAW]

Yeah, in the NP article, they said they were gonna really try and push the hardware to it's limits.

 

[Stryks]

That alone makes me very... very happy XD... hope it has killer graphics and killer controls...

 

[Creo]

I am worried about the controls the most though. I will get very tired with the Wiimote and the combos would seem to be harder. The graphics are always second for me to playability.

 

[Stryks]

Well the game isnt a fighter, so I doubt u have to remember many combos, its like a LoZ game, maybe by holding b and then moving the control left to right it does a certain attack...

U know nothing to hard XD

 

[Creo]

Oh well...I am sure they will pull through with it. I hope it has the Zelda feel because Zelda is the best...then smash.
(by the way, new sig)

 

[doom dragon 105]

just want talim

 

[eep the defiler]

Nightmare yaay!

 

[Creo]

You mean Seigfried...I don't recall if Nightmare will be alternate or not.

 

[RyokoYaksa]

IGN has more images and a gameplay trailer.
http://wii.ign.com/objects/827/827211.html

The gameplay trailer in particular looks pretty neat. Though the English voice acting sounds worse than usual...

According to this link, SC:L may also feature downloadable content. http://wii.ign.com/articles/807/807027p1.html

 

[Kashimaru]

Seems to be a more-than-decent game, definitely owning it

 

[Crzy]

I can't wait until I can run around swinging my Wiimote at the enemies on screen. XP I'm not sure if I'll pick this game up as soon as it releases, but I'll definitely buy it some day.

I'm still not sure why Nintendo got the spin-off and not the actual SCIV game...But who knows, it may be for the better.

 

[ChRed2AKrisp]

well this topic is mostly dead, but 've got some cool news.

Lloyd Irving from Tales of SYmphonia will be playable!

http://www.imagebam.com/image/f68079466660

 

[Crzy]

You sure that isn't the new Tales of Symphonia game?


Anyway, those new videos on IGN were amazing. I was a little skeptic about the multiplayer split screen, but from the looks of it, everything ran smoothly. And wow, they have quite the scenery for that game....snowcapped mountains, Egyptian areas, hills, all kinds of crazy madness.

And did I see switchable players for the single player mode? @_@

 

[Silent_Hill_Crossing]

I'm picking it up, I still have my reserve ^_^.

And this gives Nightmare/Siegfried a better chance of getting in this SSB/next SSB game.


Hooray!

 

[ChRed2AKrisp]

You sure that isn't the new Tales of Symphonia game?

um, yeah, i'm quite sure. lloyd's namco, soul calibur is namco, it's not so far fetched. Look at teh rest of the scan and try to tell me that's not SC legends, especially since one of the pictures has mitsurugi in it. and ToS's art style is completely different.