Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(48 customer reviews) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Soul Calibur V: NOT WORTH IT,
April 3, 2012 S. Palumbo "sarah04" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
= Fun: This review is from: Soul Calibur V (Video Game)
Soul Calibur V: NOT WORTH IT
Let me start off by saying this: If all you care about is online vs. play then this game is absolutely amazing and gets a 5 STAR OMG BUY THIS NOW RATING.
If you like the rest of the 99% of people who actually want some product for their money then read the rest of the review.
Soul Calibur V is probably the weakest title in the series. I mean this game has nothing to make you want to pop it back in and play it again once you beat story mode.
STORY MODE: Okay this is where the game was suppose to shine. It fails, that simple. Why? Well first off its barely even a "Story Mode". Second the story mode takes close to 3 hours to complete. Third, the story revolves around the new main characters Patroklos and Pyrrha, the son and daughter of Sophita. You get to actually play as Patroklos, Pyrrha, and Z.W.E.I through the story mode. That's it. You can't play as anyone other than these three characters and to...Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Buy it for the combat and superb online,
February 28, 2012 L. Pham - See all my reviews
= Fun:
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Soul Calibur V (Video Game)
My brother and I have spent hundreds, maybe thousands, of hours each on this series since Soul Calibur on Dreamcast. Probably only about 100 of those hours went into single player.
I'll agree with all the other reviewers that the single player experience in this game is lacking. Story mode is 2 hours of play. After that you have Quick Battle to earn 240 titles and Legendary Souls. The A ranked AI in those modes will eat your lunch if you are uninitiated. I consider it tough but very doable. It was somewhat easier than SC4's Tower of Souls. I'll remove one star for the single player. It just doesn't matter to me that much.
The meat of this game is in the fantastic online. The netcode is among the best in fighters. 4 or 5 bar connection is very close to playing on the same console. It is possible to block low attacks and punish on reaction.
THE ONLINE MODES:
RANKED: You play for online world rankings. By default the search for an opponent is set to...Read more
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Namco has severely stripped down the single player experience in favor of online multiplayer.,
February 13, 2012 = Fun: This review is from: Soul Calibur V (Video Game)
I'll be discussing various parts of the game in this review.
ARCADE MODE
After enjoying all previous titles in the series, I was excited to get my hands on this one. I fired up Arcade mode from the Offline Play menu, selected a character, played through 6 battles, and...no character ending? What?!
That's right. There are no character endings in the game. Period. The only "ending" is in Story mode.
There's a few more offline play modes but they're just standard variations like Quick Battles, Training Mode, and Vs Mode.
STORY MODE
Story mode can be beaten in 3-4 hours. You start off playing as Sophitia's son, Patroklos, and then you will use 2 more characters as the story progresses through 20 battles.
Cutscenes consists of still black and white drawings. The acting is overly dramatic and the story itself is full of terrible writing, forced character archetypes, and illogical decisions and actions made by...Read more
