

Cervantes - Long-Sword and Pistol sword.Arthur- Katana (found in the Korean version as well as some arcades in the USA).Soulcalibur introduced new characters into the game series. Unknown to them, a group of young warriors met on their journey to stop Soul Edge, and with them three sacred weapons join once again. Europe plunges into a vortex of slaughters as he and his followers claim souls to strengthen the blade in its weakened state. Three years after those events, Soul Edge uses Siegfried as its host, and now Siegfried is Nightmare, a knight wearing azure armor. This was known as the "Evil Seed", bound to bring calamity and death across its path. The moment he took the hilt of the cursed blade, Soul Edge released a bright column of light into the sky.

As it was about to tear itself apart, a young knight ( Siegfried) approached the port town. His reign of terror was soon to start, but the joined efforts of a divine warrior ( Sophitia) and an underground ninja ( Taki) stopped him, breaking one of the twin Soul Edge blades in the process. For the next 25 years he stayed dormant on the remnants of the port town in Valencia, taking the souls of those who reached him during their search of the sword. The mystical sword of the legends, the "Soul Edge", ended in the hands of the dread pirate Cervantes of Spain. Tekken and Virtua Fighter have relatively strict buffering requirements, meaning expert timing is required to pull off many combinations, while Soulcalibur's relatively lenient buffering lets players focus more on the game and less on the controls. It is important for executing quick strings of moves. Soulcalibur also improved game play with "forgiving buffering." Buffering is executing the input for one move before your character has finished recovering from his previous move. This gives the player a sense of freedom and deepens the strategy of the game. In Soulcalibur, simply holding down a joystick direction causes the character to run in that direction. Previous 3D fighters had only limited movement along the third axis, with sidesteps and rolls providing useful but unsustained lateral movement. Soulcalibur, the second game in the series, not the first, was set 3 years after the original and introduced a revolutionary feature, the Eight-Way Run. Luckily for the series, Soulcalibur was picked up for the Sega Dreamcast, and became a smash hit almost overnight. Soul Edge/ Soul Blade had a strong fanbase, but when Soulcalibur was released in the arcades, it was not as popular at the arcades as Namco would have liked or expected. According to a timeline released by Namco on their "Soul Archive" site, Soulcalibur takes place around 1587. Soul Calibur is the name of the holy sword, created to battle the evil sword Soul Edge, around which the games' story-lines revolve. It was released in Japan in Augand in North America as a launch title, in September 9, 1999. Among the differences were the improved graphics (the DC version often being cited as the prettiest game of all time upon its release), tweaked gameplay, new game modes, new costumes, and the inclusion of an extra character Cervantes de Leon. The Dreamcast version of Soulcalibur is often cited as one of the greatest fighting games of all time and as an example of a home conversion of a game being vastly superior to the original.

Soulcalibur was ported and released for the Sega Dreamcast with improved graphics and new features and became one of the best-selling Dreamcast titles overall. Soulcalibur is the sequel of the Playstation game Soul Edge by Namco.
