User Rating: 8.6 | SoulCalibur II XBOX
Before I say anything else about it... Fans of earlier Soul Calibur II games will surely be pleased with this game. Gameplay/Control has always been the deciding factor when as to whether or not I enjoy a fighting game. I find either a fighting game lets you and your opponent flow together with the action or it does not. Soal Calibur II as with previous games in the series flows fairly well. Though it can be a fun button masher, people who begin mastering the game with various forms of defense and counters will find it very fulfilling and intense. The extras and unlockables are becoming more and more popular with fighting games as they add to the replay value, plus SCII adds to this by the variations on each match found in the quest mode take away from the repetativness found in other games versions of this mode. Good things: -Action flows nicely -Lots of extras -Great variety in fighting styles -Same action found in previous SC games -Pretty sound and nice graphics -Spawn -Easy to learn, hard to master Bad things: -Little variety in types of arenas (Not much moving in the backround nothing destroyable and no variance in elevation) -Spawn, Link, Haihachi are available only to thier respective systems -Endings aren't worth the effort -all types of defense are VERY risky All in all a GREAT game. The lack of variety in types of levels is the only real disapointment. Still a must have for hardcore fighting fans. 
