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Soulcalibur IV Unleashed

Sith apprentice from LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed to cross lightsabers in Namco Bandai's newest fighter.

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Apprentice vs Yoda.
Apprentice vs Yoda.

When Star Wars icons Yoda and Darth Vader were first confirmed to appear in Soulcalibur IV, would-be Jedi the world over doubtlessly dreamed of epic lightsaber duels. Those dreams were short-lived, as Namco Bandai had made each character exclusive to a single system, forcing the foes to instead beat up on the standard Soulcalibur cast of traditional-weapon-wielding fighters (or stage their own Clone Wars with character-versus-same-character matches).

However, today Namco Bandai channeled Yoda with the announcement that "there is another." Both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game will feature the Secret Apprentice character from LucasArts' upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, allowing for proper lightsaber-on-lightsaber duels in a fighting game for the first time since 1997's original PlayStation game Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi.

The Secret Apprentice stars in Force Unleashed as Darth Vader's first Sith underling. Since the game takes place between the events of Episode III and Episode IV (the most recent Star Wars film and the very first Star Wars film), the Secret Apprentice must live up to his name and carry out Vader's orders while keeping his existence under wraps.

Soulcalibur IV is set for release on the Xbox 360 and PS3 in regular and limited editions on July 29. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed will follow for the PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Nintendo DS on September 16.

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I'd rather have Luke than some non-canonical secret apprentice.

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I can't wait for this game and I am so busy with GTAIV already.

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I wish they would Soul Caliber: Cold Wars. 360 gets Regan, PS3 gets Gorbachav(Thats probably not right). Each version gets Ollie North as a hidden player.

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I just wish they would make Soul Caliber: Star Wars

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"There is another"? Oh wow I thought FOR SURE this meant Darth Maul was coming in, DAMN.

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I agree with SavoyPrime. The Star Wars characters just don't fit. Why don't Namco just make a Star Wars based fighting game instead, or even a 'Star Wars VS Soul Calibur'? At least that would make some sense (more than it does at the moment)

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Are you serious? Honestly. What's the point of bringing in Star Wars character? Link and Spawn and all them, I understand, but Star Wars...

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There's another? Please stop this cameo crap. And if you HAVE to make that extra buck, at least take characters from a franchise that's even remotely related to yours.

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Well just more nice ingredients to add to the delicious looking stew thats being prepared!!

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didn't they say that vader/yoda would eventually go to downloadable content anyway?

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Oh Yeah.LightSaber Battles....Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!

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this doesn't make up for the fact that we get no Yoda Vs Vader matches

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This is pretty meh news. No big loss that it's not on Wii.

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that guy is badass, fighting with a back handed blade is da $#!+!

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I want it even more now.

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cool? yeah...cool.

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What's next? How about Neo from Matrix?:D

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Bringing lightsabers into the SC universe is just stupid. I'm glad I still have the first SC for my Dreamcast, I'm not even gonna bother with this crap.

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Ha, very nice! Didn't see this one coming. Probably still won't buy the game (nothing against the game's quality, arcade-style fighters just aren't my forte) but im still excited to play this one.

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@wiifan001 Soulcalibur Legends was actually pretty good. It wasn't perfect, but it was like Final Fight in 3D. And with swords to boot. It was genius for me. Unfortunately, people don't seem to like the idea of 3D classical beat-em'-ups. Too bad.

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Actually I thought the last game with lightsaber duels was Star wars episode three game.

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Ok, this is just funny now. Here I sit, laughing at you all.

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Yoda & Vader will probably (hopefully) be downloadable later.......but the apprentice should hold people over until then..........please Namco

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aww that's freakin' weak.

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I hope there's a Conquest Mode over XBL

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That's interesting, but I guess it does make sense. Kind of hoping to see him in combat soon now.

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So instead of going to logical route and giving us both yoda and vader on both platforms, they're giving us a generic, uninspired lightsabler wielder to fill the gap.. Uh... Thanks namco?

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Sweet, during the summer

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I think this series is finally nuking the fridge. Every time a new character is announced I get less excited about it.

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nice

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cool im looking forward to this

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interesting innovation coming form namco, i mean soulcalibur has always been one of the top fighting game with sick graphic but this new ideas is pure genius

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This makes up for having Yoda instead of Vader in the 360 version. Was still hoping for Luke to be in this game but oh well take what you can get.

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Revenge of the Sith had lightsaber on lightsaber action. Maybe you should edit that part Brendan.

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the only reason to want a ps3 right now is that they get vader and we get the lame yoda

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AWESOME!!! Vader vs his own apprentice! very nice!

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the revenge of the sith game had a fighting mode where you could do lightsaber duels...

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Btw, this is cool and all, but will be very disappointed if I find Yoshimitsu or Ivy or something running around my copy of SW: Force Unleashed. Namco may be able to pull it off, but you can NOT BRING SOUL CALIBUR INTO THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE.

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If there was ever a wii version I would love to see Link VS Luke

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OH SNAP!

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what are you talking about "Boat3600"...yoda is wicked...you're just a fanboy...get out of here

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Wow I may actually buy this now... I mean I am gonna buy it no matter what, but I mean on release tuesday.

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PS3 FTW, yoda is lame. Vader V.S. his apprentice? awesome!

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nice! i was dissappointed when X360 didn't get the sith lord himself to be honest i think yoda looks pretty stupid the way he fights in attack of the clones lol. but w.e, besides the point. anyway, now that the apprentice is in, i don't even care about vader. to have yoda and the apprentice duke it out, oh man i can't wait!

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Well...wasn't expecting that. I'm just wondering how all of the Star Wars characters will fit in.

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I'll agree to the "oh snap" comment!

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Awesome! :D

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I'm assuming that's a confirmed "oh snap" on the review then.

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As long as the battles make sense, I won't rank Newgrounds Flash movies with this game.

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That's not entirely true kejigoto , if repeated playthroughs of Kotor have taught me anything it's that all of the normal swords will be made of cortosis and to prevent the non-Lightsaber wielding players from having their limbs cut off they will be wearing portable energy shield projectors.

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