Soul Calibur on Wii rumoured

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 8th May 2007
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Soul Calibur is rumoured to move to the Wii, giving families everywhere the chance to beat each other up with swords.

Soul Calibur is rumoured to move to the Wii, giving families everywhere the chance to beat each other up with swords.

There are rumours circulating the internet of a Soul Calibur title coming to the Wii later this year.

IGN Editor, Matt Cassamassina, spoke of the rumours in a recent podcast and mentioned that there is an unnamed title in development on the Wii that "anyone with a brain will be able to figure out."

Matt went on to say that the title used to be a fighting franchise that was released on the GameCube and sold very well, despite being a third party title. The mysterious game will now be updated to the Wii, but won't be a fighting game anymore. Instead he describes is as "some kind of crazy ass adventure game."

Well, that sounds right up our street, even if Matt says; "who the hell knows if it'll be any good."

As Kotaku points out, there weren't exactly boatloads of third party fighters on GameCube . Well known and obvious franchises include Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur however, with most of the rumours leading hopeful fist-flingers to pray for a Soul Calibur sequel.

It won't be the first time the Soul Calibur series has tried something a little more 'adventurey' either as Soul Calibur II included a light adventure campaign called Weapon Master.

Soul Calibur is one of our favourite fighting series' and the second instalment in the franchise saw many of us through several long, beer-fuelled nights at university, so we've got our fingers crossed that the rumours will come true and that the Wii will be blessed with a decently deep 3D fighter.

What's your favourite fighting game of all time and how well do you think the genre will hold up on the Wii? Share your thoughts with us in the forums.
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Quote Hardware150 8th May 2007, 17:39
nice i love this game it would rule on the wii

if its true ill have to save up for a wii....
Quote Bladestorm 8th May 2007, 18:31
Nifty :)

With the success of the wii I think its fairly certain that major players will start developing for it, its just a question of how long till the games actually start filtering through to the players.
Quote devdevil85 8th May 2007, 18:36
Soul Calibur on Dreamcast was so sweet. I remember spending hours on Campaign Mode in the car, when we used to travel 8 hours to go visit my grandparents. Being 15 years old, it never got old, so I think the Wii would be a good installment for the game especially with the sweet controls.
Quote DXR_13KE 8th May 2007, 21:17
nice.... i wonder how it will work....
Quote Vash-HT 8th May 2007, 22:11
As long as it doesn't displace a real sequel to the fighting game I don't care if it even comes out. I like SC because its an awesome fighting game, and I really don't want it to end up something like marvel ultimate alliance.
Quote DougEdey 9th May 2007, 08:14
Nintendo need to sort out online play, the infrastructure is there, but untill the let 3rd parties develop for it it won't work.

Unfortunately, the whole "Seal Of Quality" thing isn't needed anymore, now we have optical media which is cheaper it means publishers can plow more money into development.
Quote DougEdey 9th May 2007, 11:45
Confirmed now!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/stage-of-adventure/soul-calibur-legends-confirmed-258895.php

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