Soul Calibur 4

Title: Soul Caliber 4
Studio: Namco
Publisher: Microsoft

Genre: Action/Adventure

Platform: PS3, XBox 360

Premise:

The premise for this game is that there are good people and bad people that are trying to retrieve two swords. One of the swords is bad, Soul Edge, and one of the swords is good, Soul Calibur. Each of the characters you play as have a different use of the swords. For example, Siegfried was possesed by Soul Edge for a long time and he feels that he needs to destroy the sword as penance. Nightmare is the Reincarnation of Soul Edge, which uses his body to live on his own.

Character:

In this game you have a choice between the story line of any character in the game. Which ever character you choose you follow there story. Each character has there own story and there own reason to get to each of the swords.

Game Play:

The game play is either PVE or PVP. You have a choice between going online and fighting other people from across the world, or you can do the tower of souls where you can either climb or descend from the tower. If you choose to ascend the tower you go through multiple challenges that you need to get through to achieve the next level of the tower. If you descend the tower there will be multiple challenges that start out hard and get easier and easier. You can also create your own character by buying items to increase you stats that make you more powerful, or increase your speed.

Engaging:

This game is a seriously addicting game. The story line that each player gets to follow is extremely engaging and makes it so that each player understands why they are playing there character. It brings the player closer to their character and helps them realize that there character is trying to destroy or achieve the sword that they are chasing.

Challenge:

The Challenge of this game varies. You have the challenge of online player versus player, or you have the challenge of arcade mode, which you can set the difficulty level, or the Tower of Lost Souls. Each game mode for this game has a difficulty level choice. You can go on easy, regular, or hard mode.