Video: 24 custom Soul Calibur IV characters

by Christopher Grant { Jul 31st 2008 at 5:50PM }

What if an army of large-breasted female warriors, Darth Vader, and Yoda still weren't enough to satisfy your most illicit fanboy fantasies? Mathematically speaking, that puts you in a very small percentile but, never one to back down from a challenge, Namco has included a character creation tool in Soul Calibur IV to fill in whatever gaps you may feel are inexcusable.

For inspiration, we've got this video from CanoodleStrudel, showing off 24 different handmade fighters. There's a heavy focus on characters from Japanese games – Onimusha, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Metal Gear Solid, and Final Fantasy VII – but there's also some Western treats, like Arthas from the Warcraft universe and the Prince (of Persia), light and dark versions. But it's not all video game characters, we've also got Leonidas from 300 and Bruce Lee from ... real life.

So are there technically 24 characters? Sure, but only if you consider armor changes to be unique characters ... and yes, we're including Dante and Nero in the "armor change" category. We wonder how long internet memesters can resist from crafting a Pirate versus Ninja battle ... or a Chuck Norris versus Jack Bauer showdown ...

[Thanks, Tim]

Tags: Namco, SCIV, Soul-Calibur-IV

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

F1 & The Way PC used to be. @ Jul 31st 2008 5:56PM

Chuck Norris would win. It's written in the stars.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Aug 1st 2008 6:52AM

Well duh. Chuck Norris was the one who wrote that in the stars.

Tim The Enchanter @ Aug 1st 2008 11:03AM

It's also tatooted on the knuckles of his third fist, under his beard.

lawke @ Jul 31st 2008 6:00PM

not to mention the PSN store just updated with some more customizable add-on for SC4. i think its $1.50.

Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Jul 31st 2008 6:17PM

Its on Xbox Live as well.

I wonder when we'll get to download Vader for the 360 and Yoda for PS3, its inevitable.

I was hoping we could adjust the height for the characters in CAS but whatever, its really fun! : )

juju187 @ Jul 31st 2008 6:02PM

his ryu is garbage

Chase @ Jul 31st 2008 6:05PM

I expected more boobies.

rv @ Jul 31st 2008 11:03PM

Isn't that always the case?

warchild @ Jul 31st 2008 6:10PM

Great 12 different mitzerugi's.

J @ Jul 31st 2008 6:24PM

The random character creator in Soul Calibur III was good for nearly endless laughs; however, the custom character creator was pretty limited in choices, so I hope they've expanded substantially on that aspect.

mr mobius @ Jul 31st 2008 6:32PM

Gandalf and Link are two characters I'd like to see custom made. Link was brilliant in the last Soul Calibur.

Sora @ Jul 31st 2008 7:27PM

Link wasn't in Soul Calibur III...

mr mobius @ Jul 31st 2008 7:29PM

In the Gamecube version he was.

Someone Sneaky @ Jul 31st 2008 10:36PM

Link was in Soul Calibur 2 on the GC.

mr mobius @ Aug 1st 2008 10:43AM

My bad.

Kamizar @ Jul 31st 2008 6:38PM

Some of those were pretty cool, and others were meh...

airan @ Jul 31st 2008 6:57PM

Raiden as Xianghua was a nice touch :P

mics @ Jul 31st 2008 7:01PM

I thought this was gonna be about a custom Jack Bauer and President Palmer in Soul Caliber IV...disappointed.

KeenCommander @ Jul 31st 2008 7:17PM

That Dante was pretty win, some of the others not so much. Still looks better than most of the SC3 customs.

blah @ Jul 31st 2008 7:22PM

Lich King Arthas was bad ass

embassy @ Jul 31st 2008 7:38PM

he should've done a few more onimusha characters, don't think he had enough.

F1 & The Way PC used to be. @ Jul 31st 2008 8:00PM

Its nice to see a Guild Wars reference.

Youthinized @ Jul 31st 2008 8:34PM

Bruce Lee.

Fucking win.

Now I need this game.

T @ Jul 31st 2008 9:04PM

Wow, how obvious is the that giant open spot between Yoda and Apprentice? Yeah, Vader's just sitting on that disc waiting to be unlocked.

Eh @ Jul 31st 2008 9:18PM

Can you make a large breasted darth vader?

Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Jul 31st 2008 10:34PM

Sadly no, you don't have access to the guest character's clothing in CAS, as far as I can see with played the game. : (

Microswirl (MKWii:1676- 4270-3674) @ Jul 31st 2008 10:37PM

Does this game let you make anything other than white people?

SuperGayParade @ Jul 31st 2008 11:31PM

any color or shade.... if you wanted a GREEN person you could make it. I think most of those characters were fair because they were referential to japanese characters

dark_inchworm @ Aug 1st 2008 9:36AM

Kanye says: Namco doesn't care about black people.

Wiinterfang @ Jul 31st 2008 11:35PM

Those are goddamn awful, all male characters had the same face.

iFester @ Aug 1st 2008 12:48AM

If I had a video camera, I'd show the same stuff, but I've been making all Marvel and DC heroes and villains. Changing the skin colour is fun, but the Hulk looks a bit scrawny.

Rikturscale @ Aug 1st 2008 3:58AM

Here is My Lara Croft...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnHFcCO0XKM&eurl=http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit2?ns=1&video_id=MnHFcCO0XKM&next=%2Fmy_videos2%3Fpi%3D0%26ps%3D20iurl=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/MnHFcCO0XKM/default.jpg

And yes I know... everyone could kick my butt at this game :)

merf1350 @ Aug 1st 2008 4:23AM

Where's the love for FF4, I have Kain, Cecil (though he looks alot like siegfriede) and Rosa so far.

censorman @ Aug 1st 2008 11:40AM

This would have been 1000 times better without nerd commentary. Why is it when mom gives up the camcorder (he didn't record this direct either...technology much?) bloggernerdlings feel they need to croon on.

Intarweb movie-starz ftl.

JeffyP00 @ Aug 1st 2008 12:30PM

THIS is a way better character creation video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqXoQWg2-oU

ZeroCorpse @ Aug 1st 2008 4:09PM

Blood? Dismemberment? Wounding?

No?!?!

Forget it. Soul Calibur needs to grow up.

ZeroCorpse @ Aug 1st 2008 4:15PM

Oh, and all this character creation video proves is that all anime-style characters look alike, so it's easy to crank them without much effort.

Sam @ Aug 2nd 2008 6:26PM

"I only play mature rated games for mature gamers such as myself"

Idiot. You want blood, gore and realism in a game where people are slashed repeatedly, and even lightsabers slice freely through peoples bodies?

I can see it now.

"FIGHT ONE"
*Opponent 1 slices Opponent 2 clean in half*
"PLAYER ONE WINS"

Seriously. Shut the fuck up and go back to playing grand theft auto or gears of war or whatever it is you play. Blood and gore is DETRIMENTAL to the fighting game experience.