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Rock, Talim, Yoshimitsu Will Be Back for Soul Calibur IV
And so the Soul Calibur IV roster expands just little, offering us three veteran heroes for our weapon-wielding battle needs. Now that you’re done staring at Cassandra’s breasts (you are done staring, aren’t you?), you can turn your attention to a pair of outlandish characters and one sweet little girl who will have no problem kicking your ass with some serious tonfa action.
Three of the returning characters for Soul Calibur IV, from left to right (above), are Rock, Talim, and everyone’s favorite stand-on-my-head or sit-on-my-ass battler Yoshimitsu. I’ve never been a huge fan of Rock and his giant mace/hammer thing, but I’m totally digging the inclusion of Soulcalibur veteran Talim. She is easily my favorite female character from the series, largely because she’s so quick and she has awesomely easy high-low combo attack. And then there’s Yoshimitsu. He’s just weird.
I wonder who else is going to get included. We already know about Darth Vader and Yoda in Soul Calibur 4. Let’s just hope that they don’t go and toss Jar Jar Binks in there too. Anyways, Famitsu has more pictures of Rock, Talim, and Yoshimitsu, if you’d like to check them out.
Naruto PS3 Project Teaser Trailer
Do you the know the difference between a Chidori and a Rasengan? Can you recognize the Konoha Village emblem from a mile away? Then this Naruto teaser trailer should probably elicit some sort of excitement.
I’m not entirely sure if this is going to be a strict fighting game like the Naruto: Clash of Ninja series found on the GameCube, but there will definitely be a significant fighting game element to the Naruto PS3 Project depicted in the video above. Obviously, “PS3 Project” isn’t going to be the final name for the game, so it will be interesting what kind of shinobi slant they’re going to give to this addition to the Naruto franchise.
One thing that I do find interesting is that the Naruto PS3 Project will not encompass just a single story arc like so many other offerings based on anime series. Instead, the project is “based off of the popular Naruto anime series and will follow the story from the beginning to the Sasuke Retrieval Arc.” That’s a lot of episodes to cram into a single video game, and I ultimately think that this will make for far too much compression and a severe lack of depth. Oh well, so long as I get to play as Gaara, I’m happy. Please let me play as Gaara.
Current plans call for a 2008 release in Japan “with a US release to follow.”
Source: TechEBlog
World Heroes Anthology Coming to PS2
When most people think of fighting games, it’s Street Fighter that usually comes to mind. SNK Playmore doesn’t want you to forget that they’ve had quite a few popular fighting game franchises too. They’ve got Fatal Fury, for example, which introduced us to a certain “me bouncy” girl. They’ve got King of Fighters, which paved the way to team-based fighting games. And then they’ve got World Heroes, a strange fighting game that took character inspiration from all sorts of sources. You can’t deny that Dragon looks a little too much like Bruce Lee and Rasputin is, well, Rasputin. Talk about a mad monk!
Well, while it may not be one of the best fighting games of all-time, World Heroes is trekking its way over to American PS2 consoles. SNK Playmore USA has announced that they are porting World Heroes Anthology to the PlayStation 2 and the collection is scheduled for release next Spring. The package wraps all of the World Heroes games you’ve come to know (and forget) into one convenient title. You get World Heroes, World Heroes 2, World Heroes 2 Jet, and World Heroes Perfect.
It’s only a matter of time before each of these winds up on the Wii Virtual Console. For 900 Wii Points each.
Source: Kotaku
