Play dress-up with this new Soulcalibur 5 character creation trailer

by Jordan Mallory on Nov 5th 2011 2:30PM

After you've acquired that snazzy branded Soulcalibur 5 fight stick and modded it out fresh with LEDs and Sanwa/Seimitsu parts, you'll need a customized character to compliment your rogue individuality. Luckily for you, Soul Calibur's character creation mode is returning for the series' fifth installment, and it looks as, uhm, robust as ever.

It really looks like Namco Bandai has tried to include the whole package this time around, allowing players to change fabric patterns, add additional models to pieces of armor, and layer decals to create their own designs. Obviously custom characters will never be allowed at tournaments, but who hasn't always wanted their very own Corrupted Soul Barbie?

Tags: character-creation, microsoft, namco-bandai, playstation, ps3, psp, SC5, sony, soulcalibur-5, soulcalibur-v, the-soul-still-burns, xbox

Reader Comments (18)

As a dude who spent countless hrs customizing a vehicle in NFS: Carbon, I truely appreciate buttloads of options!

Reese's for breakfast?!

Horns on my armor!?

RADICAL!

Man I remember some of those classes you could make in SC3... The dude with the magical growing stone pillar thing was always fun, as was the dancing tambourine character.

@liquidsoap89

That game was awesome and I always thought that the character creation, as well as the game itself, was extremely superior to SC4. I feel like they got rid of a lot of options. Hopefully this one will live up to SC3.

@lastspeedbump I agree... With out the extra move sets or SC3 you are just making clones of all the normal CHaracters which I feel is super pointless...

This is where i spent most of my time in SC 4, im happy to see much more options this time around.... very cool, it feels the void for guys like me who suck/dont have the time at custom 3d modeling character creation.

This is all well and cool and all, but unless you brought back the extra fighting styles from SC3 character creation is just as pointless as it was in SC4.

I'd rather make a character that has different moves from the main cast not just clones of all normal fighters...

@KaySakura Just what I was thinking. It's fun to make another character, but only if it has its own moves and poses... not just "another voldo" or "another taki". That sucks.

"Obviously custom characters will never be allowed at tournaments"

How is this obvious? From what I see in that video custom characters are just clones of normal characters and thus gain no advantage or disadvantage. I see no difference in using Taki or a custom character with Taki's move set...

Unless they bring back new movesets like they had in SC3... that would awesome and add an actual point to character creation...

@KaySakura I doubt they'd let you bring in your own usb drive to plug in every single time. Especially if it's on different machines

I hope they provide better voice samples this time around. The ones in SC4 were... embarrassing. I always skipped the opening sequence with custom fighters. I couldn't bear to watch my creations engage in (poorly) witty banter.

As much as I love customization and practically bought the last game just for it, I'm not getting back in to SC, the fighting is just too frustrating.