10 Video Game Crossovers That Went Too Far

10. Soul Calibur IV Is Just A Star Wars Game

Out of all Star Wars media, there is only one place to find the fight between Yoda and Darth Vader and it’s, bizarrely, in Soul Calibur IV. That’s a big deal. So big in fact, does anyone remember anything else about the game?

Of course, the Star Wars collaboration was a huge get and clearly Namco Bandai wanted to make a big deal out of it as they so should. However, it became a gigantic shadow over the rest of the title. Seriously, ask most casual viewers of Soul Calibur as a franchise about the fourth entry and they’ll remark that it was “the Star Wars one” and little else.

Yoda and Vader were on all the posters, on the box in fact and they were huge selling points for the game in the sense that the Jedi master was originally exclusive to Xbox and the Sith lord was only on PS3 (until later DLC). Almost every other major Soul Calibur character faded into the background and the game became essentially marketed as the place for a unique Star Wars showdown… and that wasn’t really fair at all to the complete package.

Soul Calibur IV was not marketed as the upcoming sequel in the franchise, it was now a Star Wars vehicle.