It's easily the best boxart of all of them and they continue their tradition of putting the guest charater front and center on the box.

Ezio is in soul calibur? I suppose thats better than yoda.

Did they just throw something together in the character creator for that blonde dude? I can't even tell what the hell is going on there. There's like a fur coat thing, and some kinda armor on his back sticking out because that makes sense. Namco's goofy. This isn't rocket science. Ezio, pirate dude, some boobs, cover.

Ugh, he's on the cover.

Time to go plug in my Dreamcast.

This isn't rocket science. Ezio, pirate dude, some boobs, cover.

No one told me that guy from Crystal Bearers would be playable in this as well.

@ryanwho said:

This isn't rocket science. Ezio, pirate dude, some boobs, cover.

AHA I see why this cover seemed so weird. Lack of boobs.  Also, the new antagonist looks like shit.

Ugh, it looks tacky.

Decent, but not great. It looks like they just picked a new character, a returning character, and a guest character and threw them on the cover in the first arrangement that would make a lick of sense.

...

Not a fan and it looks like Ezio is photobombing the cover

The cover is fine, it's only a cover. The real issue is the game looks like they reskinned all the models from the last game and decided that was enough for a new game.

@DeeGee said:

The cover is fine, it's only a cover. The real issue is the game looks like they reskinned all the models from the last game and decided that was enough for a new game.

and they added ultra combos, which is pretty funny

Why is Ezio in Soul Calibur?

Secondly... where are the boobs?

It's fine. I still love the Gamecube SCII art, but honestly this series has never had the best boxart. I love Ezio as their guest character, too. He fits with the universe so much better than the Star Wars characters did.

This continues to get me unreasonably excited, considering I haven't devoted any significant time to SC since the second game. I've already got this one pre-ordered though.

Man I still can't believe this game exists. Who's going to buy it in today's fighting game market? It's been a whole new world since SF4.

It's not great. And I'm still not happy that they've done away with most of the old characters just to replace them with kids.

I get the feeling they're just trying to make people think this is a completely reinvented game, rather than doing something genuinely fresh, like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. I've been utterly unimpressed with everything we've seen so far.

pretty nice cover

even though i live in the us i dont really like us covers they focus more on action or the main character

Man I still can't believe this game exists. Who's going to buy it in today's fighting game market? It's been a whole new world since SF4.

@Creamypies said:

Why is Ezio in Soul Calibur?

Secondly... where are the boobs?

because the only way Soul Calibur can try and be remotely relevant these days is by throwing in characters from other well known games or series

Wait is this real, Ezio is in Soul Calibur? That's almost as dumb as the Star Wars crossover.

@kingzetta said:

@XII_Sniper said:

Man I still can't believe this game exists. Who's going to buy it in today's fighting game market? It's been a whole new world since SF4.

I'll totality get. Soul cal is my 3rd favorite fighting game after MK and tekken.

Yeah, and I played the first two games like nothing else when they were new. But, come on, let's be realistic, this series only ever did well because there was nothing else new to play if you were into fighting games. Between like 2002 and 2008 or so, it was a very very grim time for the genre.

@kingzetta said:

@XII_Sniper said:

Man I still can't believe this game exists. Who's going to buy it in today's fighting game market? It's been a whole new world since SF4.

I'll totality get. Soul cal is my 3rd favorite fighting game after MK and tekken.

Yeah, and I played the first two games like nothing else when they were new. But, come on, let's be realistic, this series only ever did well because there was nothing else new to play if you were into fighting games. Between like 2002 and 2008 or so, it was a very very grim time for the genre.

At least they got Soul Edge looking decent again. Nightmare's new design looks a little weird, and at this point I would have expected him and Siegfried to stop being the main characters, but oh well. Hopefully they fix up the character creator, and it'll still be a pretty great time killer like the last few were.

It's good, and then you notice Ezio is there. There is really no reason for him to be there.

Really nice on that cover.

OH COME ON! EZIO? WHAT THE HELL!

One Ezio's face is the same size as two characters' bodies... At that point, you might as well just as Ezio's face...

@Mr_Skeleton said:

Wait is this real, Ezio is in Soul Calibur? That's almost as dumb as the Star Wars crossover.

C'mon, now. Ezio isn't even in the same ballpark of dumb as the Star Wars crossover.

But yeah, Ezio looks out of place on the cover.

stars wars was one of the best of the best movie in the 80s. this era wasnt much interest in star wars. star wars dont even fit in sc universe. assassins creed character in sc for me is soso. kindda look too weak and ordinary compare to sc warriors but atleast better than star wars chars.

the box art was soso. dont really like the pencel art. should of been cg art like previous box art. sc4 box is the best minus star wars chars. ivy should of be in box art cuz she was in most of box art and she is like signiture of sc along with nightmare.

Needs moar Star Wars.

Ha bisogno di piu Ezio sulla copertina.

PIU EZIO PER FAVORE!!!

Ezio is a much better fit than all of the past guest characters.

I welcome Ezio, one less gay/emo looking guy.

Kinda shit. Better than Yoda.

It's okay I guess. Still like the GC boxart for II, but whatevs. I like that the game seems fast like II again. IV was awesome bit a bit sluggish.

Video game ass video game cover. Dull.

needs more codpiece

I love me some minimalistic and elegant design work.

This, however, looks like someone chewed on a box of crayons and then sneezed on a blank sheet of paper.

I hate how they put the guest characters on the box art of Soul Calibur games.

@blueinferno: if they didn't put them on the cover how would people know they were in the game?

@TechHits: The internet.

@themangalist said:

@kingzetta: that's.... Nightmare? Oh wow. Never really played a Soul Calibur game but definitely liked some character designs. The Nightmare I remember was menacing and badass... but here he looks like some weak japanese robot ripoff for some reason :/

You're not the only one. Edit: to think that about this Nightmare design.

Decent, but still much better than 4's.

I don't like it.

What in the hell is that blonde guy wearing?

It looks dope but not as appealing as Soul Calibur 2

@Red12b said:

needs more codpiece

…probably the only thing that could get this series back on track, honestly.

In the tradition of very busy covers, SoulCalibur V follows in the perfectly.