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(More customer reviews)If you're reading this it's because;
A) You're gamer and you're considering this game for purchase
or
B) You're adult considering purchasing this for your friend or loved one.
Not that the two are mutually exclusive or anything.
Anyway, I'll skip telling you what you can already gather from the other reviews. Yes, Star Wars characters are in it, yadda yadda yadda.
I will add however that I disagree that adding the Dark Apprentice (Star Killer) to this game was a smart move. Why? Because he looks good! I know that sounds weird but anyone who's played the demo of Force Unleashed knows that the appretice's head look like a rotting grapefruit about to split compared to his SC4 likeness. He looks waaay better in SC4. More, well,...human.
Now, the Premium edition is just another marketing scheme to get more money out of you. The T-shirts are pretty flimsy, and the other content in the tin likely cost the publisher less than a third of what we're being charged for it. The tin itself is of more value than it's contents, other than the game itself, of course. So unless you're a die hard SC fan like me, and absolutely MUST HAVE all things SC, just buy the regular version of the game, so publishers will stop throwing cheap novelty crap in with a game and calling it a special edition, then charging us an arm and a leg for it.
The content is pretty kid friendly. I'd say it's safe for anyone over 10 years old as long as they have a pretty good grasp on reality vs. fiction. There's next to no gore or blood, despite the heavy use of weapons in this series, and there's absolutely no cursing. It has a teen rating from the ESRB because of "Animated violence" and "Suggestive themes," meaning which loosely translated into human-speak means that the characters are sticking each other with swords in a fasion that WOULD be violent if there were blood and gore to go with it, and some of the females dress kinda skimpy,... okay really skimpy, like dominatrix skimpy.
So it really depends on what kind of content you as a parent decide what's appropriate for your child.
Online, you can expect the usual mix, of screaming children, and angsty teens, and amused adults. The ESRB can rate the online content because they can't be responsible for what some idiot online is going to expose your child to. Considering that this is a game that features a character creator, you may want to take that into consideration. I myself have created a "Party boy" character based on the guy from the show "Jackass" who dances in front of strangers in thong underwear. (I did this to both amuse and disturb the people I play the game with. Yes, I'm a sick, sick person.)
Outside of that, while the game's has a deep supernatural bent, dealing with demonically possessed swords and all that, it really doesn't touch on anything religous or political, so I would imagine only the most conservative of parents would be offended by the story content of the game.
That's going to be the extent of this review because my opinion is far too biased in favor of the Soul Calibur series, to truely write a non-judgemental review of the game. I've been a die-hard fan of the series and in my opinion this has been the best release to date. Yes, there are some flaws most of which are aptly described by other reviewers, but thanks to that wonderous thing called internet Bandai Namco can fix and improve this game until the end of time via downloadable content and patches. Let's hope they're on their toes.
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