All in all, Soul Calibur 4 is a good game, although not completely what I expected from the first jump to the current generation of consoles. While a good game when standing on its own, I still feel that the Star Wars crossover was unneeded. Sure, Soul Calibur 2 has console specific characters that didn’t belong, but they were well known characters on their respective consoles. While adding Link to a Nintendo version of SC2 made sense, the Star Wars characters do not.

Star Wars cast aside, what you have here is a solid fighting game. Usually all a fighting game needs to be good is you, a friend, a couch, and some time to kill. Soul Calibur makes it so you don’t even have to have your friend physically sitting in the same room as you. All you need is the couch and time to kill. Fans of the series will like this game quite a bit, and newcomers can even be brought in by it. Even new players can be taken in by this game, or perhaps a player who hasn’t played any of the recent games of the series. All in all I’d say check this one out, the gameplay can be fun for hours on end, and online adds even more time to that.