Another game release, another special edition. The Soul Calibur IV special edition has recently been detailed by Namco Bandai and includes your standard special edition trinkets.Over-sized tin? Check. Art book? Check. T-Shirt? Check. Also included is a "Tournament Kit," a rather grandiose way of saying a reusable blank tournament bracket card. Interesting note to Star Wars fans, the Xbox 360 special edition includes a white t-shirt with Yoda/Siegfried art while the PS3 version includes a black Darth Vader/Mitsurugi tee (all versions are XL). We'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not the collection warrants the $80 price-tag.
[via Silconera]
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4-23-2008 @ 12:14PM
Gavin said...
DARK vader?!?!?
What are you, from Canada?
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4-23-2008 @ 12:24PM
Xav de Matos said...
HAHAHA.
Yeah. My bad.
I guess my lack of interest in all things Star Wars kinda just came out.
4-23-2008 @ 12:21PM
Tony said...
I don't know if I could be any less excited about Star Wars characters in this series.
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4-23-2008 @ 12:25PM
Neuromancer said...
Agreed, this is absolutely ridiculous. The only way I could be less excited about it would be if I were dead.
4-23-2008 @ 12:53PM
nerrrrrrd said...
If i had no shame wearing a combination of fighting video game + star wars t-shirt, then this is a nice lil collector's package.
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4-23-2008 @ 1:03PM
zOmBiEcLoWn said...
I'm seeing a trend here.... Starwars characters in Soul Calibur.... D.C. vs Mortal Kombat....
What's next? Carebears in GTA4?
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4-23-2008 @ 1:20PM
Michael Paul said...
OK, if the T-shirt is XXL I'll go for it. They'd better plan ahead on this...
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4-23-2008 @ 8:55PM
AoE said...
I think they did actually; most of the world is... *ahem* not quite as well fed as a lot of Americans are. XL is the happy medium that seems to work for the majority, which is why you'll find with most things that pack in a shirt, XL is the size they go with.
4-23-2008 @ 1:24PM
Britton said...
Hahaha, +1, Gavin...
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4-23-2008 @ 1:26PM
NukeAssault said...
Id like it... but not for 80 bucks.... regular for me. =D
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4-23-2008 @ 4:16PM
Deck said...
Considering a shirt is probably gonna cost $15 by itself anyway (if not more) this is actually a pretty good deal.
I love Star Wars, and I like Sould Calibur. I am not opposed to them together though I do believe it does not make sense. Nonetheless I may be picking this up just for the shirt (well, the game obviously too!)
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4-23-2008 @ 4:43PM
webster1990 said...
XL!? im only a S, spose i should wolf down some pies....or just not buy the special edition.
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4-23-2008 @ 8:52PM
AoE said...
WTF? Siegfried and Yoda on a shirt? It looks like an invitation to get punched in the face. :(
I'd get it but... no, wait, I lie. After they announced the awful star wars tie-in (damn you star wars fans, for being legion) I died a little inside, so no special edition for me... it's going to be painful enough getting the regular edition, knowing what cross-marketing horrors lie inside.
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4-23-2008 @ 8:58PM
AoE said...
Btw, whose idea was it to combine these two forces anyway? I don't know too many soul calibur/fighting game fans in general who give a crap about star wars, and based on the few star wars games i've played, it doesn't seem like star wars fans give a crap about good video games... so why the tie-in? Is this namco's way of gently telling us SCIV will be like a star wars game, and suck?
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4-26-2008 @ 4:23AM
cocobunny said...
The game will retail $60 anyway, so another $20 for the extras doesn't seem too awfully high. Still, I'm not sure if I will even be buying this game at all, but we'll see.
As a side note, I enjoy both Star Wars and fighting games (I figured most nerds do). Here (in my opnion) is a list of good Star Wars games for those who think they all "suck".
-Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi (SNES "Super" versions)
-Shadows of the Empire (N64)
-Rogue Sqaudron series (N64, Gamecube)
-Jedi Power Battles (PS1)
-Jedi Knight/Academy/Outcast (PC)
-Knights of the Old Republic I and II (XBOX)
-Galactic Battlegrounds (PC)
-Force Unleashed (360) looks to have serious potential
-Lego Star Wars series (360)
-Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
Seems like a decent list to me...
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