Teen
ESRB Rating
Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
86
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.1
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Soul Calibur Namco Production Staff

ProducerHiroaki Yotoriyama
DirectorKatsutoshi Sasaki
Process ManagerMitsuo Kashiwagi
Technical ManagerShinobu Nimura
Co‑DirectorKatsuhiro Harada
Game DirectorDaishi Odashima
Lead Game DesignerNoriyuki Hiyama
Game DesignersYoshihiro Nakagawa, Yasuhito Kobayashi, Kouhei Ikeda, Sakimori Numata, Satoshi Fukushima, Rei Hata, Takashi Yoshida, Takahiro Noda, Yuji Yamamura, Makoto Kiyokawa, Kazuo Takahashi, Jin Okubo, Mitsunori Nagashima, Daisuke Murano
Lead Game System DesignerShuntaro Nitta
Game System DesignersAkiya Ikeda, Tomoyuki Sasamori, Kaname Noguchi
Game Character DesignersYosihiko Uto, Akinari Ushiguchi, Ryunosuke Okazaki, Yoshinori Takahashi, Yuichi Matsuzawa, Yuichirou Tanaka, Shinji Takino
ScenarioYoshihiro Nakagawa, Sohhei Kamada
Product ManagementMasashi Tomii
Lead ProgrammerMasaaki Hoshino
Program System and Character Select ProgrammerKen Matsumoto

Visual Programming

Lead Visual ProgrammerYoshihito Iwanaga
Visual ProgrammerSei Nakatani

Game System Programmers

Arcade and VS Mode ProgrammerMakoto Watanabe
Game System, Training Mode and AI ProgrammerKenichi Nakaguchi
Release System and Network ProgrammerTakashi Koshigoe
Save Load and Graphic Conversion ProgrammerRyoichi Kaku
Network ProgrammersAkira Kitahara, Hidenori Iwakiri, Takeki Takahashi, Shuji Takahashi, Tsuyoshi Takahashi, Takeshi Ono
Creation Mode ProgrammerTakashi Kumakura
Effect ProgrammersTadashi Obama, Souta Kageyama
Sound ProgrammersTakayuki Kakinuma, Junji Hata

Game Effects Programmers

Physics ProgrammerKen Shinoda
Stage Effects and Options ProgrammerKotaro Mori
Museum and Text System ProgrammerTomoaki Kumasaka
The Tower of Lost Souls ProgrammerTakeki Takahashi
Story Mode ProgrammerTomohiro Chouji
Mode Select and Ranking Mode ProgrammerKohtaka Satoh
System SupportRyunosuke Okazaki
Network SupportKazushige Watanabe, Shuji Takahashi, Haruki Suzaki
Art DirectorMasashi Kubo

Character Illustration

Lead Character IllustratorTakuji Kawano
Character IllustratorSatoko Nakayama

CG Character Art

Lead CG Character Art DesignerKazumasa Habu
CG Character Art DesignerTomoyuki Isozaki
Bonus Character IllustrationMine Yoshizaki (Angol Fear), Hisayuki Hirokazu (Kamikirimusi), Hiroya Oku (Syura), Oh! Great, Yutaka Izubuchi (Scheherazade)

Character and Weapon Design

Lead Character & Weapon DesignerHideo Yoshie
Character & Weapon DesignersAkira Nakajima, Daisuke Fujinami, Hiroaki Kado, Kenji Kimura, Masaya Fukasawa, Shinichiro Ozawa, Tohru Hashimoto, Tomoko Imura, Yasuto Morioka

Character Creation Design

Lead Character Creation DesignersSeidou Ozawa, Shinichi Ikeda
Character Creation DesignersTaichi Higashino, Koushi Watanabe, Shohhei Senda, Shinya Murata, Yuuko Hirano, Aya Takemura, Kouhei Magome

Background Art

Lead Background ArtistYasuyuki Kobori
Background ArtistsAkiko Arima, Chiaki Kido, Chiho Kasia, Daisuke Kataoka, Hiroko Nagao, Jun Mimoto, Keiichi Hirota, Natsuyo Nakayama, Rena Takahashi, Ryo Saida, Tama Ueno, Tomoko Horii

Visual Effects

Lead Visual Effects DesignerSeidou Ozawa
Visual Effects Designer Tomoaki Honma
2D Graphic DesignHirotaka Kawakami, Urara Yakushijin, Katsuhisa Imaoka

Cutscenes

Cutscene DirectorJaehyung An
Cutscene AnimatorsTatsuya Ishiyama, Kazuyo Yoshida, Nobuko Nimura, Katsuya Honda
Cutscene Visual DesignersShinichi Katahira, Masatsugu Furusawa, Kei Hotaka

Applications Engineers

Lead Applications EngineerRyo Takahashi
Applications EngineersNaotaka Kaneda, Kazuki Takahashi

Graphic Design

Graphic DesignerTakaharu Suzuki

Animation

Lead AnimatorYusuke Shibata
Senior AnimatorsHiroki Minami, Isamu Sawada
AnimatorsTomoe Hirata, Yui Matsumoto, Kaori Sato, Manabu Morimoto, Keiko Saito, Yoshiyuki Nemoto, Hidekazu Shirai, Keiichiro Yoshitake, Yoshihiro Kaneko, Mika Kamataki, Yoshitaka Morimune, Kosuke Sasaki, Ryuji ikeda, Koji Motoume, Masao Hanai
Facial AnimatorSaori Ogiya
Motion Capture Technical StaffToshio Murata, Tetsuya Kono, Sumio Itou, Tetsuya Kanakubo, Kaoru Suzuki, Kumiko Naemura, Naoaki Ishida, Yasunobu Samata, Mio Sato, Naoko Yoshiyama, Jun Osone

Music & Sound Effects

Sound DirectorJunichi Nakatsuru
Music ComposersJunichi Nakatsuru, Keiki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Fujita
Lead Sound DesignerYoshihito Yano
Sound DesignersTomomitsu Kaneko, Shouichi Hiyama
Dialogue EditorYukiko Yamamoto
Nu Sound (Common Library)Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Yoshihiro Kurohata, Shogo Nakamura, Kazue Yamada, Tsuyoshi Fukutomi, Hiroyuki Hiraishi, All Nulib Staff

Quality Assurance

QA LeadShinichi Tsuruya, Ryo Sakamoto, Furukawa Manabu, Takemoto Shingo, Kazuya Ikeno, Kamata Masaki, Kaneko Yu-ki, Takahashi Tomomi, Yoshinari Norihiro, and All QA Staff

Consumer Software Company International Business Dept.

General ManagerTakefumi Hyoudou
Senior Localization ManagerSeiko Fujisawa
Localization ManagerMichael Murray
Localization ProducerEmi Takeuchi
Associate Localization ProducerHidetoshi Nakatsukasa
Localization SupportJeremy Clark, Austin Keys, Shoko Doi
Marketing Manager (US & Europe)Tatsuya Kubota
Marketing Manager (Asia)Noriko Ichikawa
Marketing Manager (Korea)Youngmi Ahn
Marketing SupportNaruo Uchida, Yuri Saito, Jun Tauchi, Rie Kataoka

CS Production

General ManagerRyuichi Osada
ProducersYoshitaka Goto, Hirofumi Inagaki, Michinori Ozawa, Daisuke Uchiyama

CS Promotion

CS Promotion General ManagerHirotaka Watanabe
CS Promotion ManagerGo Kurosawa
Promotion SupportSatoshi Ikeda, Shin Date, Kohei Oishi, Maiko Negishi
Contents License DepartmentNaoki Kudo, Chuya Ishida, Kei Umeki, Seita Ooshima, Natsuko Kaneko
Patent DepartmentKenichiro Minematsu
Legal Services DepartmentRie Tanaka, Takahiro Anzai

CS Sales

Sales General ManagerFuyuki Nishizawa
Sales TeamKazuhiro Takabayashi, Hiroshi Saiki, Naoki Kumada, Daisuke Takahashi, Yoichiro Mogi, Aya Morioka, Tatsuaki Fujii, Kenji Tsuchiya, Hiroshi Onodera, Shoya Yamazaki, Hirosi Matsuda, Kenichi Toida, Emoto Youhei, Yoshiba Syouichi, Sakata Keisuke, Kitayama Megumi, Satoru Nishibata, Harumi Noguchi, Yumi Ariga, Masatada Yagi, Hideyuki Yamazaki, Makiko Tamura, Masaki Hoshiai, Megumi Nozawa, Wakako Hazama, Hiroki Tomoko, Asai Maki, Itou Daio, Kikuchi Youhei
Special Thanks ToHiroaki Kawagoe, Kento Kojima, Kiuchi Tsuyoshi, Masataka Ishiguro, Motoko Takahei, Shintarou Hotta, Yoshihisa Yaguchi, Yuuta Kasama, Yoshinari Mizushima, Taisuke Aihara, Hiroyuki Kobota, Shigeto Murata, Shigeya Muto, Tetsuya Ohtaguro, Ryutaro Osafune, Masanori Yamada, Takashi Suzuki, Kei Kudo, Kouichirou Watanabe, Takashi Imagire, Shigeru Kitsutaka, Koichiro Tsutsumi, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Masao Kasamatsu, Jun Imamiya, Morikazu Orikasa, Keita Kiso, Junichi Sakamoto

Namco Bandai Games America Inc.

President & CEOGenichi Ito
Executive VP & COOMakoto Iwai
Senior VP & CFOShuji Nakata
Executive VP of Sales & MarketingAndrew Lelchuk
Director of LocalizationTakahiro Sasanoi
Senior Localization ManagerTakashi Akiyama
Localization ManagerRyota Toyama
Localization ProducerMinako Takahashi
Localization SpecialistStephanie M. Fernandez
Director of Marketing and Public RelationsTodd Thorson
Senior Product Marketing ManagerDennis Lee
Product Marketing ManagerWayne Shiu
Associate Product Marketing ManagerKristeen L. Kennedy
Marketing TranslatorChiemi Kuroyanagi
Senior Public Relations ManagerArne Cual-Pedroso
Public Relations CoordinatorNick O'Leary
Strategic Business Manager & Guest Character ConceptBrian Schorr
Director of SalesChris Lee
National Sales ManagerTerry Carlson
Senior Business Development DirectorZack Karlsson
Legal CounselJanna Smith
Senior Operations ManagerJennifer Tersigni
Senior QA ManagerTad Hirabayashi
QA SupervisorMichael Peterson
Product CoordinatorJesse Mejia
QA LeadKenrick Mah
QA Assistant LeadsDamon Bernal, Nikolas Carey
CQC TestersGreg Anderson, Luis Castillo, Ryan Dagley, Billy Dal Porto
QA TestersDarren Agellon, Josh Aguiar, Taylor Benson, Stephen Chin, Meys Cobos, Michael Desenganio, Leticia C. DueƱas, Brian P. Harris, Robert Hart, Ryan Matsuba, Royce Moreno, John Moya, Ross Nice, Ricky Ortiz, Y Pham, Jared Rosmarin, Tim Schmitz, Jon Stoner-Holk, Ricky P. Tran, Adrian Valbuena, Abelina Villegas, Alex Wagner, Cameo Wininger, Shaun Woo, Gary Yamashita, Jhune Dela Cruz, Tyler Knoot, Mike Jackson, Adam De Anda, Wes Moots
Very Special ThanksLucasArts, Ada Duan, Peter Hirschmann, Atsuko Matsumoto, Darragh O'Farrell, Joey MacArthur, Kim Reininger, W. Haden Blackman, Brett Rector, Kevin Kurtz, Margaret Grohne, Adam Kahn, Douglas Reilly, Anne-Marie Hawkins, Kim Morgan
Lucas LicensingHoward Roffman, Stacy Cheregotis, Leland Y. Chee, Ashley Matheson
LucasfilmBill Gannon, Pablo Hidalgo
Executive ProducersShukuo Ishikawa, Shin Unozawa, Takashi Shoji, Nakatani Hajime, Yuji Tsuyuki
Special ThanksFontworks Japan Inc.

Other Games

In addition to this game, the following people are listed as working on other games. No more than 25 people are listed here, even if there are more than 25 people who have also worked on other games.

Brian Schorr, 83 other games
Todd Thorson, 81 other games
Darragh O'Farrell, 72 other games
Atsuko Matsumoto, 72 other games
Dennis Lee, 59 other games
Jennifer Tersigni, 56 other games
Chris Lee, 46 other games
Adam Kahn, 40 other games
Peter Hirschmann, 37 other games
Stacy Cheregotis, 35 other games
Jesse Mejia, 32 other games
Shinichi Tsuruya, 31 other games
Anne-Marie Hawkins, 30 other games
Douglas Reilly, 29 other games
Takefumi Hyoudou, 28 other games
W. Haden Blackman, 28 other games
Michael Peterson, 27 other games
Leland Y. Chee, 26 other games
Howard Roffman, 25 other games
Shin Unozawa, 24 other games
Naruo Uchida, 24 other games
Makoto Iwai, 23 other games
Genichi Ito, 22 other games
Hirotaka Watanabe, 21 other games
Arne Cual-Pedroso, 21 other games

Collaborations

People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:

Tekken 5, a group of 56 people
Beautiful Katamari, a group of 48 people
Afro Samurai, a group of 47 people
Bounty Hounds, a group of 44 people
Tekken: Dark Resurrection, a group of 42 people
Urban Reign, a group of 40 people
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, a group of 35 people
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, a group of 33 people
Tekken 4, a group of 32 people
SoulCalibur II, a group of 31 people
SoulCalibur III, a group of 31 people
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War, a group of 25 people
Namco Museum: Virtual Arcade, a group of 23 people
Tales of Legendia, a group of 21 people
We Ski, a group of 20 people
Tekken 3, a group of 20 people
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a group of 20 people
Time Crisis II, a group of 20 people
Soul Blade, a group of 18 people
Star Fox Assault, a group of 18 people
Katamari Damacy, a group of 18 people
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a group of 18 people
Namco Museum DS, a group of 17 people
Warhammer: Mark of Chaos - Battle March, a group of 17 people
Hellgate: London, a group of 15 people

Credits for this game were contributed by DJP Mom (10805)


 

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