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Soul Calibur: Prima's Official Strategy Guide

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Soul Calibur is the hottest fighting game on the market today, and it's also one of the hardest to master. You need a strategy guide! Fortunately, the ubiquitous Prima guides are out and about, and they've released one for Soul Calibur.

As far as guides go, it's not bad. There are many pictures, and all of the moves are displayed, but the emphasis here seems to be on style over substance. The book is pretty to look at, sure, but the strategies sound like they are coming from an amateur and, quite frankly, could have been better. Sure, they're great for players just starting the game, but experts want more. Overall, though, a worthy purchase for improving your game.

The bottom line with this particular guide is: "How experienced are you?"

If you're new to the game, you will probably want this. If you've been playing for around six months to a year, you won't get much of anything out of it.

What You Get: This guide is designed perhaps entirely for the Dreamcast console as opposed to the arcade version. It is full-color, attractive and accurate. It provides the basics for the system, a little on strategy, and complete moves lists for all characters. But that's about it.

In comparison to the Tekken 3 guide by Prima, however, you will be left with a sense of loss. There is no data on fighting against specific opponents. The strategy offered in this guide is skimpy. You will find similar data for the arcade version at the official site. Go there and you'll have a pretty good idea of what this book will have.

Overall, this guide is indeed a lazy effort, and will prove useless against even most intermediate opponents. But if you're just getting started, you may want to pay its reasonable price.

This is a rather amazing strategy guide. Not only is there no strategy aside from limited advice on how to play the characters but the bulk of the text was cut and pasted straight from Namco's own documentation on the game! If you want the moves listed out in a bound and portable format, there's your only reason for buying this guide. You won't improve your game with this guide nor will you learn anything that doesn't ship with the game as it is. This is a very lazy effort at producing a strategy guide. Aren't they supposed to help you with game strategy?

If you are a great fan of Soul Blade and Soul Calibur, you will need this book to show you the techniques to beat the living crap out of your opponent. It provides the strength and weakness of each character and the various combo that charcter has. It will be awhile before you become a true master. So many moves.... so many reading to do...ugh! But well worth it if you want to master the ways of the Soul Calibur! This is my bible to Soul Calibur!

Soul caliber is a very straight forward game. Kill things with your big old sword. You're bad you're good. You fight dirty when you bad.You with me? Didn't think so. To make a long story short, I bought the guide because was a dead up stumped. WHAT NEXT! I would scream at the TV screen. It was a dark period in my life. I bought the guide, things looked up. This guide could make Allundra look simple. MAN O MAN and I told all my friends I had no help. That is exactly why this must remain confidential! HAHAH. Maps and strategy guide are a must if you plan on getting throught this game with out pulling your hair out. That about as detailed as I want to get (don't want to give anything away!) To my homies who play, how funny was the part with the monkey! Don't worry, you'll see. MORE FUN THAN D & D!