something between 8-9. Ive already given the game almost 20 hours, its really good, the features are more than welcome, and the textures in the characters are flawless and impressive, stuff as seing the dents in the armor, of the forging marks in the swords. I have the PS3 version, but I also played the 360 version. If you activate all the RGB and White settings in the PS3 borh end up looking exactly the same, the advantage though is now with the PS3 thanks to the installation reducing loadings to almost nothing, since loadings in this game are quite lenghty without it. The installations is optional, online mode is still down (of course game was not released ::)). The character selection is wide, the Star Wars characters do not make appearances in the story mode, only Starkiller is on the Arcade in stage 7. There are more than 350 pieces of equipment, most of it unlocked through Honors (a kind of reward system as the one in Devil May Cry 4. There are both offline as online honors.
The gameplay is now focused on attacking and not defending. Defenders are penalized with Soul Crash (armor breaking) and heavy defenders are even further penalized with Critical Finish (a 1 hit KO really hard to pull against a human opponent since you have to deplete the soul gauge of the opponent and then make a Soul Crush). The guest characters (Starkiller, Yoda and Vader dont play badly, and integrate easily on the normal rooster, the force powers can be blocked and parried. Out of the 3 Yoda is the cheapest one, since he cant be grabbed most of the time, and mid hits are always a miss.
All in all its a really good fighter, imo the best of this gen. There are different modes also, the story mode is where you unlock both the Joke weapons and the Soul weapons for each character, fans of the series will have a surprise with the stories of some characters, specially Sophitia. The excuse for the Star Wars characters to be there is that they felt a disturbance in the force, which ended in some guy opening a rift between dimentions allowing them to come to this planet. There they realised about this sword, Yoda wanted to stop them, Vader wanted both to rule the world (the final image of him holding both is priceless) and Starkiller is sent on a mission to get those swords.
You can customize all the characters, except the Star Wars characters and the Mangakas (Manga artists) characters which can only receive new weapons and accessories. The rest can be fully customized into new characters (hair, skin, clothes, etc.)
The game uses an skill system that gives you passive skills, new moves, and stat increasers. The equipment no longer determines whether you are good or evil, and that is now chosen by us in the beginning. The Normal St.yles are not in the game, now its only the Soul St.yles (that means Siegried, Mitsurugi, etc). Darth vader, Yoda and Stakiller cant be used as St.yles though (the possibility to add them more skills would make them too powerfull)
The old characters movesets are back, with some changes, especially in timings, and some combinations too. The stages can be partially destroyed (some background parts as sculptures, the floor or even in one stage, hit the gong :D. The floor thats broken remains broken which is a really cool thing. The combat wasnt noobified as some where afraid of, it remains almost the same as in SC 2.
The modes in the SP are Story, Tower of Souls Ascend which is a mission mode, Tower of Souls Descend which is the survival mode and Arcade. Each character represents an st.yle, that includes the Star Wars characters. This st.yles can be level up which unlocks new skills to use. The max lvl is 9 but its not easily achieved.
In character creation you can increase the stats of your character, with Attack, defense and HP, also other stats as Impact, Power, Gauge, Boost and Special which give you access to the skills.
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