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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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uuuuuuhhhhh i think they should added people from different movies or games like maybe cloud/seph or neo/agent smith etc.... those would be kick A$$

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They need to do a Soulcalibur: Star wars just like guitar Hero areosmith!

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*waiting for astroboy as a new playable character* -.-

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The whole thing is stupid. Is this a Soul Calibur game, or a Star Wars game? I'm starting to wonder. And this new guy is nothing but shameless marketing for "Force Unleashed". Apparently they care more about cash than series integrity...

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I heart blatant corporate prostitution.

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Why dont they put Vader in Resident Evil 5 while there at it. Throw Yoda in MGS4. Boba Fett in Guitar Hero Aerosmith. Lets ruin every game.

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Dammit, I want lightsaber duels on Wii! Ah well, at least there's Unleashed.

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Game looks SICK! This is going to be a strong, if not the strongest summer release of videogames in a while. Keep this up and my 2.5 GBs left on my HD will be spent.

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I was already in love with this series and couldnt wait for this game so this is all just bonuses.

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awesomeness...

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I am now even more excited for SC 4 :D Darth Vader Vs His apprentice? That would be worth seeing.

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ok, so ive never played any of these games before so can someone explain to me why there are jedis in it. im so confused :S

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HELL YER!!! but i still can't wait for tekken 6

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Dudes, you all got it wrong. If you wants Yoday on the PS3 or Vader on the X360, you dont have to wait at all.... just go to the nearest GS store around and pre-order the SC LE for the console that you want and gues what.... youll get the caracter of the other console. Tada!!! If you were really gamers and made friends in diferent stores youd knew. But bleeee, you all just keep talking nonsence or dont take my word for granted and go to the store. Enjoy!!!!

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Got to agree with DarksjeiK - the Star Wars characters just don't fit in for me. I know they've had special guest characters before but these really feel way out of place. I would rather see characters from other video games, really. Hey, is Minsk from Baulder's Gate looking for work?

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Man that new character sucks. I'm gonna play the Force Unleashed, but dam. A little too "Brotastic" for my tastes.

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TY iketeru for reminding me about outcast. That was an amazing dueling games. still the news is great

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***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.??? What about Obi-Wan, great saber duals. What about the Outcast games? All around amazing game play. Whoever wrote this artile is an idiot or being paid to push sould caliber. Saber on Saber duals are in just about every star wars game made.*** The key words in that were: in a fighting game. None of the games you mentioned were fighting games. It doesn't matter how good Outcast was, or how good you think Obi-Wan was, neither of them are fighting games. Even action games that feature a fighting game style versus battle system like the upcoming Force Unleashed for the Wii are not fighting games. Try reading and comprehending before you insult and accuse someone.

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hmm... Maybe they'll include Mitsurugi as an unlockable character in the next Star Wars game... XD

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They are kinda following MC, they included DC caracters in their game...but it's kinda more exiting to fight with Vader than with Batman....

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i was thinking about getting this game and now i'm definitely gonna get it

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Am I the only one who feels the Star Wars characters distract from the overall Soulcalibur atmosphere? Sure Vader is cool..but in a SC game?? Why not create a separate Star Wars fighting game based on the SC engine...

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This exclusive crap won't last vader will be made accessible through a live download for money of course.

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holy spit!!

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I'm not as interested in this new apprentice, as I am in another idea, that no one seams to be talking about. Remember that in SC3, you could create characters using the normal chars(Mitsurugi, Taki, Nightmare, etc)? Let that thought sink in for a moment. Let it sink deeeeeeeppppp. If they do things in a similar fashion, then you will be able to create your own Jedi.

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i bet this game will be much better than the new street fighter and mortal combat, I'm also glad that my system gets Darth Vader =] he will probably have an alternate older Anikan costume like the way nightmare had the Seigfreid costume in soul caliber 2

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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.??? What about Obi-Wan, great saber duals. What about the Outcast games? All around amazing game play. Whoever wrote this artile is an idiot or being paid to push sould caliber. Saber on Saber duals are in just about every star wars game made.

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This sucks, they should give full acces on both yoda and darth vader on the 360.

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Why can't the xbox 360 have vader? I hate when companies make certain things exclusive to one game. If you want me to buy your game, give me all the content, not just some of it.

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this blows, i would buy this game if vader was on the 360, but he's not so im not only dissapointed, but frustrated. We should at least be able to buy him on Xbox live

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This is cool, but upon reading this however my first thought was why not Darth Maul. It's still cool though... anybody thinking what I'm thinking, that maybe this is a test run/teaser and maybe Lucas is palnning to tap namco to create a full fledged SW fighting game.

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Yay, I guess. Is this another SC game, or SC vs SW? Meh. I guess since the previous SW fighting games are pretty horrible they had to piggyback on another successful fighting franchise.

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Corn999.....omg. That was very lame, and very....well.....corny really. Let's get back on topic. I am even more excited for this game now. Seeing as this will be lightsaber-on-lightsaber. I am sure the newcomer is a beast at fighting, but yoda better have skills. I can see it now: Yoda takes a slash at Starkiller.... Starkiller dashes back and prepares an attack of his own.... Wait Nightmare just sliced both of them in halve.... Nnightmare wins.....hands down!!!!

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Wouldn't the 360 be better off if they had Vader? I mean, he has a red lightsaber wich sort of goes together with the red ring of death. IDK just a thought I had.

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Very cool idea. Soul Calibur 4 is growing into a must own for fighting fans. They don't have to stop there, a couple more Star Wars characters would be welcomed. I'd even be willing to buy them seperate online.

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Nintendoboy16: You might be right about that but look the only reason people bad mouth Soulcalibur Legend is because compare to Soulcalibur 4 it sucks(don't get me wrong if I get a chance to play SC: Legend I would probaly like the game but still everyone knows that it has nothing on SC 4). Also I don't see why they can't lower the graphic for the Wii version if there was one(they could just do like what LucasArts are doing with the Wii version of The Force Unleashed which look just as amazing as the other two version.

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sweet, this'll be an awsome game. i loved the previous soulcalibur's and i'm definately buying this one for sure.

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This does make the Star Wars appearances more interesting. I wonder if the Character Creation mode will include Star Wars gear?

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oh hell yea, I was probably gonna buy this before, but now its a definate buy. I cant wait for this =D

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im getting this

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hopefully, there will be a good "create a character " mode

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@Serbine Even though it's cool for SC and Star Wars fans, I think the SC team is never going to develop a Wii SC again due to the bad talk on Legends, don't get me wrong, I liked SC Legends, but I think Namco will never develop an SC for Wii again. Even if it's a port of this, which they wouldn't do because they would cut a lot of the graphics details. I'm even surprised that SCII's graphics capabilities are good with the Gamecube.

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Feakin sweet

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It is kind of nice to play Darth Vader or Yoda. But is most likely a rental.

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Just don't care about fighting games to pay $60 for something like this. When it gets into the used market next year, I'll give it consideration.

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I am a big fan of soulcaliber and the starwar battlefront series so i can already tell that this is going to be a great game!

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At first I wasn't liking the Star Wars in Soulcalibur but seeing the incredible graphics makes up for the extraordinary circumstances for Yoda or Vader being thrust into a universe that has nothing to do with SW. My girlfriend is looking forward to this game since she loves fighting games and got a kick out of the fight mode on the Revenge of the Sith game back in 2005. I least I can admit that I was being too critical of a game tossing Star Wars characters into it but some of the complaints about this Unleashed Apprentice go beyond being a fanboy of the series.

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SCORE!!!!!!!!!!!

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