SoulCalibur is a weapons-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 . 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 and became available on Xbox 360's Xbox Live Marketplace in 2008. It is widely regarded as one of the best Dreamcast games and was one of the critically best received fighting games of all time. The mystical sword of the legends, the "Soul Edge", ended up in the hands of the... dreaded pirate Cervantes de Leon of Spain. For the next 25 years he stayed dormant on the remnants of a Spanish port town, taking the souls of those who reached him during their search of the sword. His reign of terror was soon to start, but through the joined efforts of a Greek divine warrior Sophitia Alexandra and a Japanese female ninja Taki stopped him, breaking one of the twin Soul Edge blades in the process. As it was about to tear itself apart, a young German knight Siegfried approached the port town.
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