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Offline Modes, meanwhile, offers you the expected Arcade, Versus and Training modes, as well as a Quick Battle mode that allows you to fight custom NPCвЂ™s for titles and points, and Legendary Souls (which is unlocked after you clear the story), which is a harder version of Arcade mode and is tailored to experienced players. Xbox Live offers the standard Ranked and Player matches, but also offers a large-scale lobby and fighting area dubbed the вЂњGlobal ColosseoвЂќГ‚Вќ for online fighting, which is pretty interesting and great for online fans.

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Now, Options is your standard вЂњchange settings in the gameвЂќГ‚Вќ listing (though, oddly, itвЂ™s missing some things), Story Mode is a twenty plus chapter single player mode where you see through the storyline of the game, and Creation allows you to customize existing characters or make your own creations as you wish. Right from the start, you have available to you five categories: Story Mode, Creation, Xbox Live, Offline Modes and Options. Insofar as the game modes are concerned, thereвЂ™s usually a pretty good amount of options in Namco Bandai fighting games, and Soul Calibur V is no exception. The ending is somewhat out of nowhere and doesnвЂ™t really pay off anything, though itвЂ™s cute in its own way, and overall, you wonвЂ™t feel badly for having seen it through. Patroklos and his sister, Pyrrha, go through a fairly interesting character development path, and for the most part theyвЂ™re fine enough characters, as are the new and returning characters they meet on their journeys. As fighting game plots go, Namco Bandai is really starting to go in the direction of creating one uniform narrative for their games over brief intros and endings for everyone, and Soul Calibur V does this acceptably. During a mission, he encounters Z.W.E.I., and after discussion, questions his holy mission and DumasвЂ¦ and, as is par for the course, finds himself wrapped up in the confrontation between Soul Edge and Soul Calibur in the most direct way imaginable. Patroklos has sworn vengeance against the malfested, due in large part to his believe that a malfested wielding a ring blade had taken his sister, who heвЂ™s searching the land for while doing DumasвЂ™ work.

As the game begins, вЂњmalfestedвЂќГ‚Вќ, that is, people under the negative influence of the blade Soul Edge, have begun spawning across the land, and Patroklos is killing them under the orders of Graf Dumas, the leader of Hungary. At the conclusion of that game, Siegfreid apparently managed to defeat Nightmare in a somewhat long-term fashion, putting the Soul Edge and Soul Calibur blades into something of an extended slumber. The game itself takes place seventeen years after the events of Soul Calibur IV, and things are a good bit different from when we left. The storyline of Soul Calibur V takes place, specifically, in the year 1607 AD, across several locations in Europe, mostly across Hungary, Bavaria and Italy, and follows new protagonist Patroklos, son of Sophitia.

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Well, it turns out that, no, the series has not fallen into disrepair with Soul Calibur V, and yes, the game is rather solid in most respects, but as to whether or not it lives up to the promise of its predecessorвЂ¦ well, thatвЂ™s a harder question to answer. Unlike its predecessor, it also carries the baggage of having a Japanese advertisement associated with it featuring IvyвЂ™s boobs prominently and little else, asking the question of why this was an advertising focal point. As with its predecessor, it comes with an interesting special character in Ezio Auditore from the AssassinвЂ™s Creed series (in one of the most fitting cameos to date). As with its predecessor, it brings some notable mechanical changes, modifications to the character creation system, and several new modes.

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In the meantime, a PSP release, Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny, was somewhatвЂ¦ less exciting in comparison, but the franchise was generally quiet for a couple years, otherwise, in preparation (one assumes) for the inevitable sixth actual entry in the series (counting Soul Blade). Three years ago, we took a look at Soul Calibur IV and found it to be a marked improvement and one of the better fighting games to come out of Namco in a while. Six years ago we took a look at Soul Calibur III together, and found it to beвЂ¦ wanting, for the most part. And so, two hundred and twenty nine reviews later, here we are again, on the new stage of history, with Soul Calibur V.