When it comes to fighting games, there are only a select few that have been strong enough to build a franchise around: Street Fighter, Tekken, and of course, SoulCalibur. Namco's weapon-based fighting series has survived for more than a decade due to its fast paced arcade style action, wild characters, and cameos from some pretty big-name guest fighters (Spawn, Link, Darth Vader, and Yoda to name just a few). As popular as the SoulCalibur series is though, surprisingly it's never managed to make its way to portable game systems. Until now.
Assassin's Creed's Ezio and The Witcher's Geralt have been excellent guest characters in the Soul Calibur series.
Phil writes, "If you've been around SuperPhillip Central for a little while (it's still okay if you haven't, so no harm done), then you know that I like talking about underrated and overlooked games. I've done various series on the subject. However, most of the time, the games mentioned in these articles are from wholly new or overlooked franchises themselves.
There are also a multitude of series that I can think of that have one, two, or a handful of games in it that aren't viewed as highly as the others, whether just or not.
These ideas are where the concept of All-Star Franchises, Underrated Entries comes from, and since our 13th edition, I've come up with six more underrated entries to big-time franchises, some bigger than others."
Carl Williams writes, "In video games, we don’t see too many crossover events. It is probably due to the fact that video game companies are quite litigious with each other. That is a shame, though, as it would be interesting to see more gaming crossover events that are not Super Smash Bros or a Capcom and SNK fighting game. While it was a little bit of work, we have tracked down five awesome gaming crossovers that you have forgotten about."
