It seems that Namco and Tecmo have started a competition for the title of "Most Ridiculous Breasts in a Videogame". After all of the various incarnations of Dead or Alive it looked like the crown would be going to Tecmo, but things are swinging back in Namco's favour with the release of 19 new screenshots for the forthcoming Soul Calibur IV. I mean, seriously, some of those women would be utterly crippled in real life, let alone able to wield blades with deadly precision. We're talking chronic back problems here.

It's all a bit ludicrous if you ask me, and quite sad. You'd think that by now video games might have moved on from such an utterly absurd and simplistic portrayal of women. Instead, large breasts and exposed flesh seem to be considered "features" of a game. I think it's about time that developers realised that not everyone who plays games is a Nuts reading "lad".

Don't get me wrong, I like breasts as much as everyone else, but there's a time and a place for them, and using over-exagerated female anatomy as a selling point for a game strikes me as childish.

Source cvg.com