On the subject of characters, though, this leads us nicely into the main disappointment with this HD Online version: there have been no “modern” alterations to the content of the game. I settled back into Yun-Seong’s springy shoes fairly quickly, and with a cast ranging from the swift pokey Xianghua right up to the hulking, hard hitting Astaroth, everyone will find at least one face they’ll chime with.

Two of these brawler’s – Heihachi and Spawn – are reinstated in Soul Calibur 2 HD Online, but Link is absent due to Soul Calibur 2 HD Online only releasing on Xbox 360 and PS3.Īdmittedly this is a sour point for me as Link was actually my character of choice in Soul Calibur 2 (he had some brilliant juggles and a delicious ring-out grab), but the roster is still more than varied enough without the Hylian Hero. Upon its initial release each console version of Soul Calibur 2 featured a unique fighter: Tekken’s Heihachi on Playstation 2, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn on Xbox and Link of Zelda fame on Nintendo’s game box. It’s slick, balletic, fast and focused.Īnd Soul Calibur 2 HD Online is a faithful scrub up of the old PS2/Gamecube/Xbox title, retaining all of its predecessor’s features (including the rather lengthy single player Weapons Master mode that acts similarly to the trials found in the recent NetherRealm fighters Mortal Kombat and Injustice), while re-uniting two of the old guest characters for the first time. Arguably the best 3D fighter ever conceived, this is Soul Calibur in one of its purest forms, free of the super arts and meter-building that infected the most recent iteration, Soul Calibur V, Soul Calibur 2 puts features such as the guard impact parry technique front and centre, and asks you to fight with its characters dressed in appropriate gear. The good first: Soul Calibur 2 is a fantastic game. This is a piece of work so bare bones I’m struggling to fathom the skeleton ever being anything but bald. The title says: “This is Soul Calibur 2, in HD, and online”, but it’s unfortunate (and this admittedly sounds contradictory, but I’m hoping to clear that up in the next 800 words) that this is really all Soul Calibur 2 HD Online is. Soul Calibur 2 HD Online has a title that serves a very similar purpose. For example, the title of this article is simply “Soul Calibur 2 HD Online Review”, it explains what is on this page, what you’re going to read, what the number at the bottom (that you’ve probably already looked at) is summing up, and it satisfies us that we’re advertising our wares in an astute and genuine manner.

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