New Soul Calibur fighter revealed

As Namco’s frantic fighter (published over here by Ubisoft) nears release, another character has been revealed. And it’s not all about the Star Wars cash-in either. Say hello to Algol...

Hideo Yoshie, character designer, explained, "We aimed to make a character that is the ’king’ of an ultra ancient civilization and a character that obviously proves the setting of being the strongest character ever in SC series.

"So, he’s wearing a costume from the ancient kingdom that isn’t recorded in history, and it was really difficult and troublesome to make the design of his costume as so just by looking at it. The final motif of the amour ended up being the ’bird’, but there were many other ideas like the lion, cobra, dinosaur and more. I believe the design combined dynamism and splendor, and is very cool.

"His right hand glows red and his left hand glows blue because he holds the Soul Edge in his right and the Soul Calibur in his left. Also he has ten kinds of weapons built in his body and shows a variety of fights never seen before, including flying in the air and sitting in the throne. I want people to have fun by his buzzard actions. There was an idea for an additional option which he causes an off-site brawl with a pipe chair instead of the throne, but we were not able to put the idea in the game this time.

"By the way, the Algol that shows up in the opening demo is Algol when he was still a human.. That’s why his hair has a different colour from within the game. There are some more detailed differences, so please go on and find more differences on him for fun through the game."

Right then, all sounds good. But we bet he’s not the hardest fighter ever to appear in the series. That’s got to be either Yoda or Darth Vader surely? First shots below.