Soul Calibur IV First Look Preview (Gamer.tm)

Gamer.tm writes:

"From the information released so far, Soul Calibur IV looks to give the series its most drastic overhaul since the weapon condition/breakage system was removed in the leap from Blade to Calibur. Among the most notable of such changes is the decision to enlarge arenas, meaning that ring outs are likely to be a far less common way of picking up a cheap win. After some of the shockingly tiny stages from III and the proliferation of soft ring out moves (even neutral throws with some characters, such as Raphael, will do the trick), this can only be seen as good news. It has also been reported that some stages will have destructible objects littered about them, possibly leading to some incorporating breakable boundaries as seen in VF4 and indeed SCIII to further banish the ring out to the realms of the uncommon. "