Soul Calibur V Gameplay Demos from EVO2K11!

Word on the news vine is that during the upcoming top 8 stream for Tekken 6 at Evolution 2K11, Namco Bandai Games International and @FilthieRich will be announcing a few new reveals for Soul Calibur 5! The top 8 stream for Tekken 6 will begin immediately after the end of top 8 for BlazBlue.

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12:25pm : opening statements. Introduction of Katsuhiro Harada and Daishi Odashima.

12:27pm : new character announced: Leihua, Xianghua's daughter.

12:29pm : gameplay demo with Zwei and Patroclus, explaining the new critical edge system; it appears that critical edge supers can also ring out. In addition, we also get to see a significant amount of gameplay featuring Zwei's "partner" Ein.

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Soul Calibur V: Zwei vs Patroklos (PS3, Xbox 360)

12:33pm : gameplay demo with Ivy and Natsu. Natsu appears to play just like Taki.

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Soul Calibur V: Ivy vs Natsu (PS3, Xbox 360)

12:37pm : gameplay demo with Mitsurugi and Siegfried. Match takes place on Zwei's new "boundless" stage which has no ring outs or walls. The game looks much faster paced than its predecessors.

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Soul Calibur V: Mitsurugi vs Siegfried (PS3, Xbox 360)

12:41pm : closing remarks from Daishi Odashima and Katsuhiro Harada wishing that the game will be featured in an upcoming EVO tournament. Planned release for the game to be 2012, as expected.

2:55pm : @filthirich announces a playable demo of Soul Calibur 5 at this year's Tokyo Game Show.

 

WCMaxi - Fair enough. But my point stands that the demonstration could have done without the AA and BB spam.

 

i think they were busy talking so they decided to just BB / AA (zwei) and that shield move (likely 236B) with pat for the first 2 round

 

you guys know that the AA BB rounds were just building meter so they could show off CE's, right?

Edit: And WCM is right about the crowd, its just not a SC group in particular.

 

I think it's safe to say that Kilik is Leixihua's father. She's wearing his necklace...check Kayane's sketch for details:
http://yfrog.com/h7uajhej

Dude Nice Catch! I didn't see that...
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SC5 is going to be so sweet. I'm a little worried Zwei is going to be very confusing to fight against! But I am looking forward to seeing all the characters Critical edge !

And I cant wait to see TALIM bust out a hurricane towards her opponents! (Talims Critical Edge)

 

This game seriously looks awesome. Most promising looking Soulcalibur game since SC2 (heh) and actually looks faster. I like the meter implementation (though I dislike meters, generally) and I like the idea of Just Defend. The more elements borrowed from 2D Fighters, the better IMO.

-SynikaL

As long as we let them keep 1-frame links.

 

As long as we let them keep 1-frame links.

1 Frame Just Frames :D

 

Hoping to see Raphael, Talim, and Yoshimitsu announced next.

 

I know you all (or most of you) want Talim to return. But let's face it, her wind is fucking annoying..

 

I actually don't find it annoying, just funny and awesome.

"Wind!" "Wind!" "Wind!" Soar!" I love Talim, haha.

The only voices I found extremely annoying in SCIV were the created officer voices. Almost all of them (though a few were fine).

 

Harada calls Z.W.E.I GAY!!! 1:33

 

Harada calls Z.W.E.I GAY!!! 1:33

ROFL!!!!

 

"Looks like gay."

-Harada

Very catchy.

 

The game looks beautiful already. the lighting is vastly superior to SC4s and as far as I know they are still on the same engine. No need to change it xD.

Natsu looks amazing, faster and more fun looking then that of taki, Ivy got classed up, Pat Pyrrah and Zwei look promising as well, This is going pretty well, not much to be disappointed about :)

 

Nice Can't wait for this game to come out! Well Star Wars Characters won't be back for sure. T^T I guess I'll just use the next guess Character whoever they may be. I wish it could be Altair or Ezio from Assassin's Creed. :D

 

Nice Can't wait for this game to come out! Well Star Wars Characters won't be back for sure. T^T I guess I'll just use the next guess Character whoever they may be. I wish it could be Altair or Ezio from Assassin's Creed. :D

You know, whenever they referred to SCV guest characters, they always said it plural; "guests". If they do decided to use characters from assassin's creed, we might see both assassins. ...just a thought.

 

You know, whenever they referred to SCV guest characters, they always said it plural; "guests". If they do decided to use characters from assassin's creed, we might see both assassins. ...just a thought.

I reckon they'll use a guest character from two different games.

Ivy got classed up

What do you mean, "Ivy got classed up"? Ivy got fucked up because they removed a sword state from her which makes her so much shitter, and I reckon they did it to try and get more players to use her, but IMO we have enough Ivys. Ivy is not going to be very good in SCV because of this.

 

You know, whenever they referred to SCV guest characters, they always said it plural; "guests".

Have they?

 

From this I can see that it could be a Dynasty Warrior. Good, because I love Dynasty Warriors.

 

From this I can see that it could be a Dynasty Warrior. Good, because I love Dynasty Warriors.

Likewise. I think they would actually fit in pretty well too.

Of course almost anyone would look like they fit in after Yoda being in it...

 

Likewise. I think they would actually fit in pretty well too.

Of course almost anyone would look like they fit in after Yoda being in it...

Don't get me started on that little green bastard (sorry to the Yoda fans out there). I mean, Assassin's Creed guests would be good, but that's obvious, isn't it? They want to be original. And let's be honest not everyone has heard of Dynasty Warriors so that'd make it original. To me it would be great, I'd main whatever Dynasty Warrior enters the world of SC.