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No mission mode or online play for Soul Calibur explained

Thursday 3-Jul-2008 10:48 AM Producer explains how the memory limit meant mission mode was hacked out.

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The producer of the Soul Calibur XBLA port, Robert Johnson, has explained why it's missing the original's mission mode and doesn't have online play.

Despite being a port of the Dreamcast version, its mission mode isn't included in the Xbox Live Arcade version. Johnson explains why.

"We started this project with the full intention of hitting the 150MB size limitation as required by Microsoft," he says. "However, the original game was much larger so we did have to make one major adjustment, and that was to remove the Mission Battle Mode... it wasn't until the end of the project that file size limitations were no longer an issue, but at that point it was too late to put Mission Battle Mode back in."

He also reveals why the decision was made not to include online play for Soul Calibur.

"We wanted to avoid the same pitfalls of other retro fighting games that have been ported to the 360," Johnson explains. "In most cases online play was simply tacked on and the gameplay experience was lessened because of it. We don't want the players' impression of Soul Calibur to be tarnished by the restrictions that would have occurred by including online play in this game, which was never designed for that feature."

So now you know why. The lack of an online mode in particular is a shame but regardless, it's still a damn fun game. Check out issue 37 of OXM for the full interview.

Ryan King