Now, I remember when fighters used to have stories that made sense. You know, not sense sense, but a bit of sense. Like Ken and Ryu being friends, and the scar on Sagat's chest, and parts of Tekken, and, oh, I don't know, maybe Battle Arena Toshinden read like Iain Banks at his best. Such concepts of narrative now seem to be condemned to the "nice idea, but nobody buys this crap for money" pile in developer's conference rooms.

Furthering this trend we have the announcement from Namco that alongside Yoda and Darth Vader, the latest installment of the Soul Calibur series will also feature... "the secret apprentice" from forthcoming Star Wars 'em up The Force Unleashed. So that's cool and all, but, he doesn't even have a name. "Cervantes, versus, the Secret Apprentice from the forthcoming LucasArts title The Force Unleashed." Doesn't really have a ring to it does it?

Despite my cynicism about most things, I must admit, the screenshots of Vader and Yoda look pretty cool, and controlling a muppet on speed while he wafts about a lazer sword has always been an ambition of mine.

BUT.

And as you can see, that is a big but. The last Star Wars fighting game, Masters of The Teras Kasi was horrible beyond words, and whilst the Soul Calibur series has its own pedigree, I can't help but shudder at the sight of Star Wars characters involved in one on one brawls. It was that bad.

Plus, this guy can bring a Star Destroyer down on his own, what good's a pointy stick going to be against that?

Source Xboxic.com