I also remember spending a long time in the Weapons Master Mode, a story mode told through a lot of reading, but still a story mode nonetheless. My question is did the fans ask for a barebones selection of modes, removal of several favourite characters and the worst story mode I have ever encountered in a game ever? What I fondly remember about Soul II was playing through the arcade mode and getting the story endings for each character, who all had fairly detailed back stories. One of the main developers was even taking feedback and suggestions from his Twitter account. Sure enough the Facebook petition was a success. With Soul Calibur IV rumoured to be the last in the series, it was said that another game would be possible if the fans wanted it. What I mean is what the Soul fans have received with Soulcalibur V is a step backwards for the series. If you’re still reading this, you’re probably what I meant by the first sentence of this review. With Soulcalibur V on the release cycle this year, I decided it was a perfect time to pick up what I assumed would be the most updated entry in this series. Soul Calibur III eventually came out, not on the GameCube however, so that plan failed. Despite this, I was more than happy to play a future instalment despite knowing that Link wouldn’t be in them. Oh, and yes I used him during the majority of my time playing the game. Ok, I’ll admit the main reason I bought it is because it featured Link from The Legend of Zelda series in it as a guest character. I haven’t played a Soul game since the outstanding Soul Calibur II on the GameCube. Of course, just like most fighters, if you’re new to the game, just button-mash away. Like most fighters, it can take quite a while to learn the complicated commands for just one fighter, let alone the 28 characters available in the game. Its main use allows fighters to fill up a metre which enables the execution of a “super move”. Newly introduced to Soul V is the “Critical Edge” system. Using a combination of these buttons, along with the control stick, allows for combos, throws and special moves. The controls are relatively simple, with a different button for horizontal attacks, vertical attacks, kicks, as well as guarding.
The character play styles are designed with their weapons in mind so you can’t swap the ninja’s blades with the Zweihander. The characters are mainly differentiated by their different weapons such as the standard sword and shield setup, ninja blades, a Zweihander (large two-handed sword), nunchuks and an axe. It’s also possible to win a round by knocking the opponent out of the arena, known as a Ring-Out. Like most fighting games, battles consist of two combatants facing each other and the aim is to attack your opponent until their health metre empties, thus a Knock-Out (KO). This review is based on the Playstation 3 version, though Soul V is also on the Xbox 360. Every other game since has been released under the title of Soulcalibur. It’s a 3D weapon based fighting game that began with Soul Edge in 1996 which was released in the arcades and ported to the Playstation. Soulcalibur V is the sixth (yes that’s correct) game in Namco’s Soul series. (Although from memory, I think SSD doesn’t make Civil 3D any faster, although I think some technical guru told me it would, when the RAM was exceeded, although with 16GB min in our computers, we don’t get close to that situation).Well fans, sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. The secretary’s PC is not SSD, whereas all our Civil 3D computers are, and you sure can notice how slow HD’s are in machine and program startup, compared to SSD.
At some point in the Win 10 update it lost its recognition of the ethernet card, and despite 4 hours on the If you are buying new PC’s from a shop, make sure they are fully spec’d up to optimise AutoCAD Civil 3D – at the minimum solid state drive (preferably the pcie (or whatever it’s called) version), 64-bit, min 8GB RAM, dedicated graphics card. We recently got a HP PC for the secretary (not using AutoCAD, etc) that was Win 7 but came with a Win 10 install disk, and so ensued 2 days of virtual sweat getting Win 10 installed, updated, and the PC fully operational. If it was me, I’d ask the computer company that you are getting your new computers from, to also ensure that the Win 10 is fully updated, and has all the drivers working.