Classic fighter and the warm up to the Soul Calibur series.
This is the 1st soul calibur game that started a new fighting system in the type of weapons based Fighting game combat.
The gameplay isnt as fast as later Titles in the SC series but its still pretty fun and addictive with occasional rock-paper-scissors style swordfights and weapon locks its everything a swordfight should be.
The characters are quite fun with the psycho s and m freak voldo and the usual samurai assasin lone-wofl mitsurugi.
The graphics are very dated but are pretty good acually! the opening FMV is very impressive and is my the best opening in the SC series fo sho!
The sound is ummm well orchestral which doesnt really fit in well but is alright but the one thing i hate is the narrator....u may recognise him from the other SC games but in this one his samples are so bad that he contradicts himself!!! the grueling battle ended with the..of...seung mina!
OMG why havent they fired him yet.
Anyway apart from the horrible narration this is a grand game that derserves to be played if only to see where it all began.