Namco-Bandai Announces Soulcalibur II HD Online!

So there has been a furor during these past few days after it was discovered that Namco-Bandai filed a trademark for "Soulcalibur Lost Swords". Until now, we didn't really know what it meant. Companies file trademarks all the time, often just to cover themselves.

Could Lost Swords be an upgrade to Soulcalibur V? An RPG side-story like Soulcalibur Legends? Or perhaps a free-to-play version of Soulcalibur like Tekken Revolution? Well Namco-Bandai just wrapped up their Comic-can panel... and... nothing. No announcement of Soulcalibur Lost Swords. However, Namco-Bandai has announced an HD version of Soulcalibur II will be coming to PSN and XBL this fall.

The HD release will be from the PS2 version, and include Heihachi and Necrid as guest characters. Link and Spawn will not be featured. Included with the resolution upgrade will be several new modes, including online multiplayer! Masaaki Hoshino is serving as producer for this project, rather than Hisaharu Tago who has been responsible for Soulcalibur V.

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Soul Calibur 2: HD Online Trailer

I don't need to even talk about how exciting this news is; but let me just say that when it does come out, the 24/7 stream will be moved over to it.

 

Floe will ruin this game for all the US online players. Cant handle that pressure. Have fun.

yup every single US online player

 

Soul Calibur 2 HD Online MUST RUN at 60 smooth frames per second with full motion re-fresh rate to look as smooth as Call Of Duty games, & with smooth motion blur like Tekken6 or some PC emulators running SC2 that clearly have motion blur in them. I mean, if geeks did it, surely the company that made the original game can.

Online TEAM BATTLE mode! (where players in search lobbies can room up into one big battle!)

Online SURVIVAL mode! (where players in search lobbies get popped in immediately vs the current streaking winner.)

Online CONQUEST mode with factions & territories just the arcade but replacing the ghost CPU rival by an actual Online human rival! A chance for REAL clans?

Where to email Namco about this?

 

Soul Calibur 2 HD Online MUST RUN at 60 smooth frames per second with full motion re-fresh rate to look as smooth as Call Of Duty games, & with smooth motion blur like Tekken6 or some PC emulators running SC2 that clearly have motion blur in them. I mean, if geeks did it, surely the company that made the original game can.

Online TEAM BATTLE mode! (where players in search lobbies can room up into one big battle!)

Online SURVIVAL mode! (where players in search lobbies get popped in immediately vs the current streaking winner.)

Online CONQUEST mode with factions & territories just the arcade but replacing the ghost CPU rival by an actual Online human rival! A chance for REAL clans?

Where to email Namco about this?

Tweet it to them, man!

 

Tweet it to them, man!

Where or/& to who in Twitter do I tweet this to? There's different namco things, its confusing, what legit on twitter?

 

Where or/& to who in Twitter do I tweet this to? There's different namco things, its confusing, what legit on twitter?

Maybe Daishi or Project Soul? I'm not even sure if PS have a collective twitter account.

 

Im strangly excited about being able to shake stuns again....

Woooo Hooo!!

 

Im strangly excited about being able to shake stuns again....

Woooo Hooo!!

I absolutely hate it. It's one of the reasons i rarely play VF .

 

HRD likes shakin his stick.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

I absolutely hate it. It's one of the reasons i rarely play VF .

What's so bad about it? And what's wrong with VF? It's a great fighting game.

 

What's so bad about it? And what's wrong with VF? It's a great fighting game.

I just don't like it. And VF has a lot of shakeable stuff that just bugs me. Same goes for DoA.

 

HRD likes shakin his stick.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Who doesnt?

 

Soul Calibur 2 HD Online MUST RUN at 60 smooth frames per second with full motion re-fresh rate to look as smooth as Call Of Duty games, & with smooth motion blur like Tekken6 or some PC emulators running SC2 that clearly have motion blur in them. I mean, if geeks did it, surely the company that made the original game can.

Online TEAM BATTLE mode! (where players in search lobbies can room up into one big battle!)

Online SURVIVAL mode! (where players in search lobbies get popped in immediately vs the current streaking winner.)

Online CONQUEST mode with factions & territories just the arcade but replacing the ghost CPU rival by an actual Online human rival! A chance for REAL clans?

Where to email Namco about this?

Ugh, I hope Namco aims a little higher than being able to replicate PC emulator performance. Trust me, I've tried SC2 on all the emulators I know of, and they're all wonky. And all these modes. Please, let's just pray they don't screw it up like TTT HD.

 

Namco announced their booth info for TGS:
http://gematsu.com/2013/08/namco-bandai-announces-tgs-2013-lineup
And the official HP (in Japanese):
http://tgs2013.bandainamcogames.co.jp/title_list/
No SC... Maybe classified as more?

 

Maybe classified as more?

 

Aw

The good old days of went you smash whatever button it was to make your favorite character talk. xD

On a serious note, WTH !!! why would they that out in SCV I loved making them talk before the fight.

I swear, it would make the game more hype then it already is !

well I can't wait for this release I don't know about everyone else.

 

We're getting Spawn for SC2 HD apparently (>^.^)
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/08/2...will-let-you-play-as-both-spawn-and-heihachi/

 

Thanks for the news!

 

Floe won't ruin anything. He'll ruin the scrubs and others who don't know the game.

 

Raph vs X
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/7iqu4u/soulcalibur-ii-hd-online-raphael-vs-xianghua-trailer

Anyone know who the players are? Another DTN vs Mark Nikil match?

 

Each one of these VS vids should get a new front page post.