The knight in azure armor, Nightmare, and his followers were successful in collecting enough souls and were about to start the restoring ceremony on the ruins of the once-proud Ostreinsburg Castle. The wave of slaughters that terrorized Europe reached a sudden end. The game is set in the year four years after the events of Soulcalibur. Nightmare's third costume is Siegfried though he is still referred to as Nightmarewhile the Assassin and Berserker play extremely similar to Hwang and Rockwho did not return from the original Soulcalibur.Īlthough the original Lizardman not returning to this game, it is instead a minor Lizardman, who is playable in VS Mode, Training Mode and certain portions of Weapon Master. Inferno is in the game, but it is not a playable character. Four new playable characters were introduced in Soulcalibur II : Cassandra fighting styles derived from SophitiaRaphael unique fighting styleTalim unique fighting styleand Yunsung fighting style derived from Hwang.Ī new unlockable character Charadelike its predecessors Edge Master and Infernoswitches its style to match existing characters' move lists with each individual round of fighting. The plot of the mode puts the player into the role of a swordsman searching for Soul Edge, who suddenly is faced against a powerful mad knight named Veral who takes the form of Nightmare, then Infernosearching for Soul Edge for his own desires. The mode has 10 normal chapters, four sub-chapters and two extra chapters as well as Extra-Missions alternate version of normal missions. This mode presents a history set in an alternate world, while the player moves in a map divided in "regions" named after stars and fights enemies to gain experience points which raises the "rank" of the character and money which can be used to buy weapons, art, costumes and videos. The Arcade version has a unique mode called "Conquest Mode" that allows the player to pick an army, fight enemies and gain experience points, allowing it to increase the level of the selected player. The GameCube version's guest character Link has four costumes green, red, blue, and lavender and Assassin, Berserker, and Lizardman each have six different costumes three color edits of their two standard costumes. Like before, some characters are granted with a third costume, purchased in Weapon Master Mode. Each character was granted a Soul Edge version of their arms and a "Joke Weapon" with bad stats and effect, with unique and funny hit sounds.Įach weapon is given a backstory in the "Weapon Gallery". Each character has 12 different weapons, from the standard basic weapons for 1P and 2P to the powerful "Ultimate Weapon". A returning feature from Soul Edge is the inclusion of extra weapons. There are also "Extra" versions of these modes, intended to allow the use of the Extra Weapons. Soulcalibur II presents the normal modes from most fighting games: Arcade, Team Battle Mode similar to arcade, but with teams of up to eight characters and without cutscenes or endingsTime Attack fight against the clock to gain recordsSurvival Battle, and Training Mode. Key game system improvements include an easier "step" and "avoid" systems, arena walls rather than ring-out ability on all sides and wall-specific moves, a three-step Soul Charge system, a clash system that is used when two attacks would hit each other resulting in a white flash, Guard Break attacks which put a blocking player into a post guard-impact state, just frame moves awarding additional hits to players who could time their command inputs well, and a revised Guard Impact system that removed height-based Impact moves and instead used a more unified system high and mid attacks are countered using Repels, mid and low attacks are countered using Parries. The game was a critical and commercial success. This is the first Soul game depicting the A. It is the sequel to Soulcaliburwhich was released in July The game's plot revolves around the legendary weapon Soul Edge having been shattered into pieces, with different characters seeking to collect all the pieces to gain possession of the complete weapon or to destroy it once and for all.Ĭompared to SoulcaliburSoulcalibur II had improvements in graphics and the game system and introduced several new and guest characters.
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