Sure, new iPods and iTunes and whatever are great, but the best Apple platform news
for us this week is the release of Gameloft's
Blades of Fury. Between the voice acting, the idea of playing a 3D fighter on iPhone, and, well, Gameloft's willingness to
openly and unashamedly rip off
Soul Calibur, this is one of the most entertaining iPhone releases yet, and we haven't even played the thing (which Touch Arcade says is actually
pretty good). You're going to enjoy the trailer after the break.
In fact, the only way to approach
Blades of Fury as anything other than just a
Soul Calibur clone is to believe that Gameloft released it this week as an
homage to
Soul Calibur, ten years after the Dreamcast release.
[Via
Touch Arcade]
{ Sep 9th 2009 at 11:45PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mars @ Sep 9th 2009 11:53PM
wow, first ganstar, modern combat, and now this? gameloft is like the chinese rolex of the gaming industry.
Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 10th 2009 12:05AM
actually, first it was hero of sparta which is a clone of god of war. but even though they're clones, they're high quality (for the iphone) clones.
CheeziePotato @ Sep 10th 2009 12:09AM
Hero of Sparta was terrible. It was slow and the controls were awful. Fuck iPhone games
tobz1000 @ Sep 10th 2009 12:55AM
Sly: If you have to justify a statement by adding 'for a ___ game', there's a good chance it's not the case.
CaramelZappa @ Sep 10th 2009 12:01AM
It seems that with the ipod touch/iphone becoming such a serious software platform, apple should make one actually dedicated to gaming, with real buttons. It could be quite formidable against say, the psp go or the dsi.
tmacairjordan87 @ Sep 10th 2009 12:03AM
Seeing how good Soul Calibur looks for PSP, I'm definitely not impressed by what I just saw. You could probably make a pretty good argument that the original dreamcast version looked better than that.
Cena @ Sep 10th 2009 12:40AM
PSP Soulcalibur is fail.
[ArchiGamer] @ Sep 10th 2009 12:05AM
How do you even play this?!
CheeziePotato @ Sep 10th 2009 12:11AM
By touching the damn phone
Sly Cooper, Attorney at Law @ Sep 10th 2009 12:56AM
well you're a cheeky little bastard aren't you?
CheeziePotato @ Sep 10th 2009 1:55AM
I try
RKN @ Sep 10th 2009 12:09AM
Holy blatant knockoff badman!
HeXeN {KevinConroyDefeatsBatman} @ Sep 10th 2009 12:34AM
Either my computer is slow or those are pretty terrible frame rate drops.
Cena @ Sep 10th 2009 12:41AM
At least it isn't as bad as Broken Destiny.
HeXeN {KevinConroyDefeatsBatman} @ Sep 10th 2009 1:19AM
And Modern Warefare for the wii has better graphics than the PS360 and PC versions.
justinslot @ Sep 10th 2009 1:22AM
You really didn't like it? I think Broken Destiny is great. I mean Dampierre alone is fantastic.
FeaturePreacher @ Sep 10th 2009 1:09AM
How can this even be considered a knock off? No Mitsurugi, Kilik, Taki, or Maxi. Most of all, a total lack of breast physics. What a shame. Just imagine the stuff you could do with multi-touch and ginormous jubblies.
Bones3D @ Sep 10th 2009 1:13AM
The game actually does work pretty well despite only having input via the touch screen. It's a combination of gesturing and an on-screen D-pad.
That aside, I can't help but find it amazing as to how quickly gameloft is growing. Any idea how many people are working for them these daya?
RKN @ Sep 10th 2009 1:25AM
I'm just curious about what Namco is going to do, if they even know this exists yet.
whylekat @ Sep 10th 2009 10:32AM
Really what could they do.. There's nothing wrong or illegal about releasing cloned games. Short of developing soul calibur for the iPhone, all they can do is sit and watch gameloft make money and slap their foreheads for not thinking of it first.
Someone insert that piccard forehead slap failure pic for me.
LunarAura @ Sep 10th 2009 4:36AM
This looks more like Mace the Dark Age mixed with Soul Edge than a Soul Calibur ripoff.
OrientalSoulman @ Sep 10th 2009 5:26AM
How do they not get sued for this crap?! That game is blatently a ripoff of Soul Calibur..... I mean who does that shit...!!
whylekat @ Sep 10th 2009 10:42AM
It's just like those two popular burger joints..
See Mcdonalds has the Big Mac ... McDowells has the Big Mic ;)
Faceman @ Sep 10th 2009 10:24AM
this was pretty lame until I saw one of the fighters do a super move.
WiNG [XBL&Steam: WiNGSPANTT] from lifeinagame.com @ Sep 10th 2009 10:32AM
I am also baffled by the controls. It has a dpad on screen, that's it? I assume there should at least be an attack button and some other kind of button for kicks/throws/blocking?
NeoMahi @ Sep 10th 2009 6:32PM
Wow.... Steve Jobs is the ass I've heard him out to be. Apple is becoming just like their arch-nemesis. What happened to innovation and creativity? Now Mac is slipping? This is despiration at its worst. Now Apple is ripping off ideas and stealing idea's from other. Poor business on their side. I still hate Microsoft anyway, but I have only and iPod touch, and this is disgusting. Bad form!
manaman @ Sep 23rd 2009 12:30AM
I'm sorry, but I fail to see how a game released by Gameloft has anything to do with Apple and their state of innovation or what have you.
redys @ Sep 11th 2009 3:44PM
@NeoMahi in case you're not just being ironic:
Gameloft != Apple
I haven't played my PSP much at all since the App Store arrived. PSP games usually have more depth and generally better graphical quality than iPhone apps. But they cost 4-8x as much and rarely hold my attention very long anyway.
Has anyone tried this game out much? Is it worth the purchase price? $7 is cheap, to be sure, but it's over my "don't worry about it, give it a shot" threshold.