Soulcalibur III (PlayStation 2)

This page details one or more prototype versions of Soulcalibur III (PlayStation 2).

To do: Organize the differences and be more specific! Add screenshots/videos to compare with the final game. There's at least three or so demos floating around, one for the Official PlayStation Magazine, one for the 2005 Holiday Demo Disc, one for the Press Kit discussed in the beginning of this page. Find what differences between them are!

A press kit demo for Soulcalibur III was released around the same time as the Official PlayStation Magazine Demo Disc Issue 98 in November 2005. It comes with pre-final footage taken from the Tokyo Game Show event in 2005 as a bonus before beginning the demo. It has quite a lot of interesting differences. Watch on YouTube

Menus#

Mode Select#

To do: Record a video of GIF of the different videos that play when a game mode is highlighted.

Demo	Final

The player is not greeted with the announcer the the player "Welcome to the new stage of history." after entering the Mode Select Menu.

The Mode Select menu also features several different designs compared to the final game; notably the border on either side of the screen have a different, though just as ornate, design, with no elements to suggest they are columns and different coloration.

The border around the Mode Select header is more simple and lacks the prominent shadow background in the demo. The text is also written in both upper and lower case, as opposed to just upper case in the final.

The books that act as the indicators for the different selectable modes feature a slightly different design, with different coloration and more subtle ornamentation around the icons, which are also slightly different. The icon for Single Player Modes features a helmet with a more prominent gorget and opening on the visor. The inaccessible Options features two cogs instead of just one.

The border around the dialogue box also features a different border. Having an ornate gold design as opposed to a more simplistic blue with crystal embellishments.

Demo	Final

Demo	Final

The Single Player and VS modes have a different background, featuring an open landscape and the Soul Embrace (fusion of Soul Edge and the titular Soul Calibur) on the left page as opposed to archways looking out to an open sky.

The change to the header border as seen in the main Mode Select menu extends to here as well. The text was made just a slight bit smaller though.

A number of game modes are also inaccessible to the player, with the sizzle reel of content replaced with the Project Soul logo with "Not Available" plastered over top.

Differences#

• Dialogue subtitles are not yet present.
• The name of the music track is not displayed during the pre-battle panorama.
• Tales of Souls uses a placeholder video as opposed to story text and gameplay cutscenes in the final game.
• The Character Select Screen is slightly different and has different lighting.
• The Episode Screen for Tales of Souls Mode is very different.
• The slider for reading the story text in Tales of Souls Mode is different.
• The weapon text for the weapon you use isn't present.
• The choose branching path text for Tales of Souls Mode is different.
• The lighting for the Secret Money Pit stage is different.
• Kilik's Ling Sheng Su intro dialogue is slightly delayed.
• Tira's introduction cutscene was much shorter than what it is in the final game.
• Kilik's dialogue when beginning to fight Tira was completely different.
• The Wings of Despair music track was a bit different.
• The description text for the Dancer and Ninja class in Character Creation Mode was different.
• The character frame for Character Creation Mode was different and a different colour.
• The menus for Character Creation Mode were unfinished.
• Naming your character wasn't added to Character Creation Mode yet.
• The Man and Old Man voice for Character Creation Mode was absent.
• The announcer doesn't say vs class on the creation battle loading screen.
• Shulong uses Hwang's attire.
• The custom characters weapons have different sound effects.
• The Ninja has a left side judo throw which isn't even in the final game.
• Olga uses Astaroth's double sweep attack which isn't even used by the knight class in the final game.
• Many attacks were originally more powerful.