Soulcalibur V coming to PS3, Xbox 360 in 2012

by Ludwig Kietzmann on May 11th 2011 6:30AM

Namco Bandai's tale of souls and swords, chain whips, undead pirates, gas-mask fetishists, murderous ex-monks, Todd McFarlane rejects, bipedal lizards, elvis impersonators, razor-sharp hula hoops, and Siegfried Schtauffen, will continue in 2012 with the release of Soulcalibur V.

Shown during a press conference at Namco Bandai's "Level Up Dubai 2011" event, Soulcalibur V is set to launch on Xbox 360 and PS3, with a story that takes place 17 years after the faux-historical events of the previous game. At the rate technology is advancing in the Soulcalibur universe -- and the rate at which the women's clothes are shrinking -- we'll probably have all-nude musket duels within the next few games.

Namco has yet to send out a full character roster, but Siegfried and Nightmare already appear in the first trailer. The game's story is focused on a new character called Patroklos, son of Sopithia. Expect to see a little more media when the countdown on the game's teaser website concludes later today.

Update: You'll find the teaser trailer after the break.

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Source: 8wayrun, Andriasang

Tags: fighting, japan, level-up-2011, microsoft, namco-bandai, playstation, ps3, soulcalibur-5, soulcalibur-v, step-up-dubai-2011, xbox

Reader Comments (97)

Woo!

Glad they're shaking things up a bit by doing a bigger time jump than usual. Just hope there's plenty of modes to keep us all busy.

@Zal I'm worried they might shake up things too much. And introduce a magical fountain of youth that explains why characters aren't aging. Then again...Namco also has Heihachi and others fighting...

@Zal

POUR DEVILS POT OF TEA!

He was kick ass in the PSP version, instantly became one of my favourite characters, he HAS to be in SC5.

I think its offcial, fighting games can't get enough of Kratos' badassness.

@ToolroomKnight
Gray Mitsurigi was the first thing to come to my mind

@Zal. This place is going to be MILF paradise.

@ToolroomKnight

Ironically enough, some of the characters actually looked older in Broken Destiny, which is odd because that was supposed to be in a time frame before even the first Soul Calibur. Seong Mina or whatever the hell her name is, comes to mind as a good example.

And another Soul Calibur I shall buy.

@KazamaSogetsu
Yep. Another game to look forward too!

@KazamaSogetsu *adding to personal wish list*

Ivy will probably be wearing nothing but dental floss this game.

@(Unverified)

Before or after the clothing damage?

@The Blank Mage Returns

I heard clothes made out of air are the in thing nowadays.

@Bekefel Ivy will be in her 50s if this 17-year time skip thing is true. So think about that for a minute.

@Roto13 It's true, Ivy will have been quite on the downward slide since the current Soul Calibur games. I'd be quite surprised if she's in it, I expect a mostly new cast maybe with a few holdovers (Old Mitsurugi, anyone?) and for them to create a whole new female character that's wearing practically nothing.

@Bekefel After SC4, i didn't think their clothes can get any skimpier.

....Of course, their going to prove me wrong.

@Bekefel

Her boobs will be so big, they'll be the exclusive characters.
Left for PS3, right for Xbox 360

@Raiki Given the effects of gravity over 17 years, I'm pretty sure Ivy will be able to retire her sword whip.

Just realized the downside of cross-over characters - I'm totally gonna be bummed that Starkiller isn't in this one. He was such a fun character to play in 4.

@Punkrawk Bbob
Yeah, I personally really liked to play as Spawn on Soul Caliber II for Xbox.

@Punkrawk Bbob

I'm looking forward to Commander Sheperd as a guest character. I mean after going hand to hand against the Shadow Broker, I have no doubt that he could beat the hell out of Mitsurugi, and we could finally find out if Mitsurugi actually learned to deflect bullets with his sword or not.

I'd like to see a bunch of new characters. Something, anything to shake it up. As much as I love the Soul Calibur series, I was starting to feel burnt out on it with IV.

Nice!
this and the the Tekken CG movie thats coming made me really hype.

They're still bothering with this series? As far as fighters go it's all about Capcom, Mortal Kombat and Smash Bros. Anything else is not necessary now.

@Banksyliveraa in Bizarro World.

@Banksyliveraa

Tekken, Blazblue, Guilty Gear, even Deadliest Warrior is pretty sweet. You're just a snob for some reason. MK has blown up until a week ago, so I wouldn't even consider that a strong franchise. Just a lucky throwback

@Banksyliveraa

You heard the man, Namco.

Shut it down. Shut it all down.

You're no longer needed. We appreciate your efforts, but variety is apparently the spice of blah blah blah nobody gives a shit.

All kidding aside, the idea of MvC, SSB and MK being the only fighting games that are "necessary" is, in a word, superf*ckingstupid.

Which isn't really a word, but it communicates my position on the matter rather succinctly.

@Urethra Alfredo

Despite how right you are, Joystiq will only let me click the + button once. Weird, they should allow at least three bumps for that.

Thank you.finally

Oooh sounds exciting! I wonder if the cast will be mostly new, given that it takes place 17 years after the last one.

God of War 4, Mass Effect 3 and Soul Calibur 5 in 2012 :)
Now Aksys just need to announce Agarest 2 will come out in 2012

More characters and a true way around rage quitters is all i ask for.
Heh i spent a year of my life playing Unchardted 2 and Soulcalibur 4 fo 6 hours every morning after work, when U3 and soul5 are both out it will be another year of that beautiful routine.

that seriously just looked like Soul Calibur 4 :P I suppose we'll see more in 5 hours.

@Playace I thought so too, but verything was so washed out in that video. It may just be us subconciously projecting they're last look onto it.

. . . that sounded a lot more like psycologic crap than it did in my head.

@HayabusaTaichou Edit: Turns out part of the movie was from SC4.

A tale of swords and souls, eternally retold

i am ready for more

I wonder who will be the guest characters in this game? Charlie Sheen?

@Jay Z
They're always the most random people, aren't they? I'm gonna go with... Ryu Hayabusa, Captian Quint from Jaws, and "The Macho Man" Randy Savage.

@Jay Z
Charlie Sheen's Sword is possessed by the Soul Edge!

If they don't bring back Weapon Master Mode from Part 2, then I do not care.

@HandsomeBoyGraduate
Yeah. Though I can't say I feel quite as strongly as you do, I really liked that mode.

crosses fingers, lets just hope they announce Move support

All I know is this better have a guest character or 2.
Main reason that'll push me to grab the game day 1.
If not I'll end up just waiting. I had way to much fun with spawn and vader.

I'm ready for this game are ya'll

3 things:
Decrease bust size - (it's getting absurd)
Tell the dev team to break out SC2 and simulate it's engine
Keep armor breaking and custom characters/styles.

Regardless, it's a must by for me.

@Codeman
Agreed...on all three.

@Codeman
"the size of those breasts are absurd and unrealistic! Now, Lizard Man's combo is particularly strong against Yoda here, but not Spawn. If only he too had a BLADE HULAHOOP, he'd be unstoppable".

@Codeman

you lost me at decrease bust size.

@RickGhastly While I do voted you up for being awesome, I don't think realism is the proper term. I mean, there's a point where, to most people at least, breasts are too huge to be appealing.

http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/04/15/6/1572/15721474/b3/pix2009021518244465.jpg

I think several Soul Calibur characters are there, or aproaching it. And if every character was "stylized" or had exaggerated features, you could chalk it up to that. But it's not that. It's adults whose breasts apparently grow between franchise outings and soon will be considered low orbiting sattelites if things keep going. Damn, even DOA keeps breasts consistent from Game to game, mostly.

@PedoJokerBear
Some Peodbear

Just keep piling on games for next year.

Can't wait to see this game in action. I wonder are they gonna do any exclusive characters again...

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Soulcalibur V coming to PS3, Xbox 360 in 2012

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