SOUL CALIBUR (R) III Limited Edition Fighter's Guide

By Brady Games

BradyGames "SOULCALIBURIII Limited Edition Fighter s Guide" includes the following: A bonus game soundtrack, poster and much more Extensive versus strategy. Detailed area maps pinpointing unlockables.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0744006562
• ISBN13: 9780744006568
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: BradyGames
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.1" x 0.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

In depth look into Soul Calibur III

This review is for the normal version of this guide, I believe the only difference is that the limited edition comes with a soundtrack CD (and the covers are different). This thick guide starts off by explaining the basics of the game, things like moving around, guarding, and different types of attacks. It then goes into more detail regarding more advanced techniques likes impact guard, guard breaking and delayed attacks. Reading through these gives you a good sense of the options available to your fighter. The guide also covers the different game modes and explains a bit about each. One gripe I do have though is that while they cover the Chronicles of the Sword mode, they don't really give too much stragetic advice or recommend which types of fighters to use. Still, that section is informative enough. The meat of this guide comes with the fighter profiles. Filled with colorful pictures and easy to read text thanks to a nice, organized layout the guide proceeds to list all of the moves for each fighter broken down by type. A nice explanation of how the fighter performs at different ranges is very helpful as is an overall summary which gives the player a good view of how to use that specific fighter. If that wasn't enough they also provide a section dedicated to favorite/best moves to use with each fighter. Very handy. The guide also covers all of the unlockable characters as well although not in as much detail. The remainder of the guide is dedicated to the complete shop lists as well as prices and conditions to unlock. There is a complete unlockable section dedicted to all of the games secrets as well. Included is a nice foldout map which shows all of the main characters and their weapons with descriptions of different properties. Another small gripe is that I was hoping that they might include pictures of the different types of armor, but again that can be viewed in the game. Now one ommission that I could not find was that the guide did not lay out all of the possible pathways for the Tales of the Sword mode. Example being, the guide mentions to unlock Hwang you must defeat him in the Tales of the Sword mode but it doesn't specify how to actually go about facing him. Not a major deal but still would have been nice. Overall, it's a great guide with plenty of useful information to help you with the game.