The best PS2 fighting game!
Soul Calibur III is the best package a fighting gamer could want. Awesome graphics, rock-solid gameplay, tons of cool characters and meaty modes that will keep you busy for hours. The Character Creation mode is superb, letting you play with various looks and new 'jobs' like assassins, saints and samurai. The Chronicles of the Sword is a kind of RTS, though it just boils down to a fighting game where you have to run to your opponents and spend a lot of time breaking down doors- it's tedious but quite absorbing once you get into it.
Best of all, the Japanese version is completely bilingual, with full english voice, subtitle and text option- which is great for me to use on my Japanese PS3. And this game looks awesome on a HDTV. I'll keep playing this gem till Soul Calibur IV shows up!

Cool...
This game is AWESOME! It was really smart of Namco to add three new characters: Tira, Setsuka, and Zasalamel. If they weren't there, Soul Calibur would get boring. The Soul Edge and Soul Calibur weapons are awesome, and the plot is amazing! If you like the Soul Series, I bet you'd grab this game immediately!

Keeps em coming back
Though I had to say that I liked the idea of special characters in the 2nd version, this new version allows you to make their own. If you liked the smooth graphics and outlandishly huge weapons of the others this game is right up your alley and something that will keep you entertained for hours at a time.

Zasalamel
This game is awesome yes, you can select up to 30 characters, the story is awesome, graphics rulez but it is too hard.... sometime the cpu is very very b*****d..

great buy at Playasia
not the best game out there (if this game would to come out 5 years ago, if would have received 11/10), but for $14.90, who would say this is a bad deal?