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Game entry

SoulCalibur

1998 · Fighting, Arcade · Xbox 360, Dreamcast, Arcade, iOS, Android · Namco

SoulCalibur carries 1,799 ELO points on GameForever and holds position no. 204 in the world ranking, with 84% of duels won out of 134 played. Its most contested head-to-head pits it against Street Fighter II: 2 wins to 1 across 3 duels. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 7 out of 257 (Fighting).

World rank

no. 204

ELO score

1,799

Wins

84%

Duels played

134

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About SoulCalibur

SoulCalibur is a weapon-based 3D fighting game developed by Project Soul and produced by Namco. It is the second game in the Soul series, preceded by Soul Edge (1996). Originally released in arcades in 1998, it ran on the Namco System 12 hardware. In 1999 it was ported to the Dreamcast with improved graphics and new features. The North American version was released in September 1999 as a launch title for the Dreamcast and was part of the successful launch of the new console. It became available as a downloadable title on Xbox 360's Xbox Live Marketplace in 2008.
The title brought many innovations to the fighting game genre that include a heavy emphasis on weapons and a unique eight-way movement system. Soulcalibur is widely regarded as one of the best Dreamcast titles and is one of the most critically acclaimed fighting games of all time.

The community says

Another thread about where it sits, same arguments every time honestly, but yeah it deserves better than 118th I guess.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,799 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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Around this spot

The games SoulCalibur sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 201 Pokémon HeartGold Version 1,800
  2. 202 Pikmin 2 1,800
  3. 203 Kerbal Space Program 1,799
  4. 204 SoulCalibur 1,799
  5. 205 F-Zero X 1,798
  6. 206 Call of Duty: Black Ops 1,797
  7. 207 Cuphead 1,797

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The standing

Where SoulCalibur ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where SoulCalibur stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 7 out of 257 (Fighting).

Where SoulCalibur ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 204 5,110
Fighting 7 257
1990s 37 655
1998 8 76

The community

The debate

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  1. HaileyKnight

    Another thread about where it sits, same arguments every time honestly, but yeah it deserves better than 118th I guess.

    SilentDragon

    Replying to Tristan_42

    Et pendant ce temps le classement, lui, ne bouge quasiment jamais malgré tous ces débats

    Tristan_42

    tkt on a tous ce debat toutes les semaines mais moi c'est mon pote qui m'a ruiné en pièces d'arcade

    IronWolf

    Je l'assume, je vote pour lui à chaque fois, tant pis si c'est pas objectif

    VinylByte

    Same arguments every time, sure, but I still remember borrowing a friend's Dreamcast for a whole weekend just for this.

  2. RogueNinja97

    The 3D movement feels ahead of its time, though some matches still boil down to spamming the same weapon trick until it works, so I land somewhere in the middle on how good it really was compared to what people remember, and I say that as someone who still boots it up sometimes

    Pixel_Poirier

    La spam d'une seule technique, j'y ai pensé aussi en le relançant, sauf que perso je trouvais ça plus fun que frustrant, enfin au début, après un moment ça saoule un peu, faut dire

  3. Coop_Hagenes

    The arcade cabinet had a charm the ports never fully captured for me

    Susan_82

    Le classement récompense surtout la mémoire qu'on en garde plus que l'expérience réelle de rejouer aujourd'hui.

  4. thompson_raleigh

    My son found the disc in a drawer and asked what it was, so I dusted off the old setup for him, faults and all in my explanation of half the roster since I barely remembered the names myself.

    IronDragon41

    Half the roster forgotten and it still beats most of what's in this ranking

  5. raphael_rempel

    You'll probably say the roster carries it, but the weapon system deserves credit too

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