21-11-2005, 11:28 PM
Since we dont already have an official soul calibur three thread i figured id go ahead and post my opinions on the awesome game along with a few cheap ways to unlock everything. 
First lets start off with the story of the game. It takes place roughly one year after the end of soul calibur two. Seeing that a new character is introduced as the main badguy we really cant apply any of the endings from Sc 2 except for some of Raphaels. Enter soul calibur three Raphael and nightmare had a fated duel however Raphael wasnt enough for the posessed night after being criticially wounded Nightmare was about to finish him off when sigfried decided he had enough during this time raphael made one last desperate strike and damaged soul edge enough for siegfried to cast off the demonic aura at this point soul calibur appeared sigfried took the holy blade and pierced soul edge with it managing to cripple the sword but not destroy it with this he left with both swords hoping to find a way to eternally seal soul edge he leaves the shattered armor behind not aware that at the last instant soul edge transferred its demonic will into the bodiless armor. Entere Zasalamel the one of the new chars in sc3 he has the power of the ages he has been ressurecting himself for centuries now he grants the lifeless armor mobility and hence begins sc three. The graphics are a step up from the gamecube version with more realistic looking characters and arenas that are actually damaged by the body and sword impacts of those fighting in it. More importantly is the sense of realism the new outfits boast gowns that sway in the wind armor the sparks when struck against metal its all too good for words. Sound is an even better improvement an impressive musical score coupled with better american voice actors who fit the characters personalities though sadly the american voice actors they hired for the created characters were generic and lame sounding easily fixed by setting the voice tracks to japanese though be careful in story mode when a char is thinking to himself the game offers no subtitles for internal dialogue. Story is excellent gone are the days of the two cutscenes in story mode for your rival and then for inferno every fight starts with full length cinematic cutscene where the two fighters exchange dialogue and even shenmue style blows which can determine how much health you or your opponent start the fight off with. More so they have fleshed out everyones personalities so much more from the fact that yunsung is young and dumb like tidus from final fantasy ten or the fact that tira (( the new bad ass assasin with looks to match her skills )) is crazy as all hell lines like ooh youre so cute i cant wait to see you all in pieces really creep me out. Gameplay is great as well every char has been revamped or polished in some way. The ps2 controller plays just like the gamecube in the fact that they havent added or taken away any buttons and the four shoulder buttons act just like the c stick for the cube. The created chars are the real pride and joy in the game you choose a gender and choose a job class. The job class determines which of the five movesets you will get to choose from three original movesets and two movesets that perfectly mimic a char already made in game. After this its up to you to determine how you make your char look down to the smallest details This is what the pso custimazation should have been sadly though you cant manipulate dimensions so no extremely short or fat or large breasted chars however this is a very small gripe and for some reason its difficult to make darker skin tones took me forever to find a realistic shade of tan skin. All in all this is one of the best fighters of the year and i reccomend it to anyone who has a ps2 and some controllers.
Heres an extremely easy way to unlock everything in the game in terms of making created chars. Do chronicles of the sword and make nothing but ninja classes as your units they have a move with their whip you can do with R2 that is long ranged and deadly plus it automatically breaks gaurds it makes some of the longer fights much easier.
Also for unlocking disciplines within the job classes simply make one of every type doesnt matter how they look as you dont have to keep the characters. Go to vs mode select two custom chars of different class set the match number to two and health to one hit kills and do fifty matches it will learn you all the moves in no time at all. So run out and buy this game its a must have for the fighting game enthusiast!!
First lets start off with the story of the game. It takes place roughly one year after the end of soul calibur two. Seeing that a new character is introduced as the main badguy we really cant apply any of the endings from Sc 2 except for some of Raphaels. Enter soul calibur three Raphael and nightmare had a fated duel however Raphael wasnt enough for the posessed night after being criticially wounded Nightmare was about to finish him off when sigfried decided he had enough during this time raphael made one last desperate strike and damaged soul edge enough for siegfried to cast off the demonic aura at this point soul calibur appeared sigfried took the holy blade and pierced soul edge with it managing to cripple the sword but not destroy it with this he left with both swords hoping to find a way to eternally seal soul edge he leaves the shattered armor behind not aware that at the last instant soul edge transferred its demonic will into the bodiless armor. Entere Zasalamel the one of the new chars in sc3 he has the power of the ages he has been ressurecting himself for centuries now he grants the lifeless armor mobility and hence begins sc three. The graphics are a step up from the gamecube version with more realistic looking characters and arenas that are actually damaged by the body and sword impacts of those fighting in it. More importantly is the sense of realism the new outfits boast gowns that sway in the wind armor the sparks when struck against metal its all too good for words. Sound is an even better improvement an impressive musical score coupled with better american voice actors who fit the characters personalities though sadly the american voice actors they hired for the created characters were generic and lame sounding easily fixed by setting the voice tracks to japanese though be careful in story mode when a char is thinking to himself the game offers no subtitles for internal dialogue. Story is excellent gone are the days of the two cutscenes in story mode for your rival and then for inferno every fight starts with full length cinematic cutscene where the two fighters exchange dialogue and even shenmue style blows which can determine how much health you or your opponent start the fight off with. More so they have fleshed out everyones personalities so much more from the fact that yunsung is young and dumb like tidus from final fantasy ten or the fact that tira (( the new bad ass assasin with looks to match her skills )) is crazy as all hell lines like ooh youre so cute i cant wait to see you all in pieces really creep me out. Gameplay is great as well every char has been revamped or polished in some way. The ps2 controller plays just like the gamecube in the fact that they havent added or taken away any buttons and the four shoulder buttons act just like the c stick for the cube. The created chars are the real pride and joy in the game you choose a gender and choose a job class. The job class determines which of the five movesets you will get to choose from three original movesets and two movesets that perfectly mimic a char already made in game. After this its up to you to determine how you make your char look down to the smallest details This is what the pso custimazation should have been sadly though you cant manipulate dimensions so no extremely short or fat or large breasted chars however this is a very small gripe and for some reason its difficult to make darker skin tones took me forever to find a realistic shade of tan skin. All in all this is one of the best fighters of the year and i reccomend it to anyone who has a ps2 and some controllers.
Heres an extremely easy way to unlock everything in the game in terms of making created chars. Do chronicles of the sword and make nothing but ninja classes as your units they have a move with their whip you can do with R2 that is long ranged and deadly plus it automatically breaks gaurds it makes some of the longer fights much easier.
Also for unlocking disciplines within the job classes simply make one of every type doesnt matter how they look as you dont have to keep the characters. Go to vs mode select two custom chars of different class set the match number to two and health to one hit kills and do fifty matches it will learn you all the moves in no time at all. So run out and buy this game its a must have for the fighting game enthusiast!!
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