GamesCritics has a review of Soul Calibur. They gave the game an overall score of 9.0 rating.
Here is an excerpt:
Aside from the default one-player ‘Arcade’ and ‘Two-player Versus’ modes, there were also more home-exclusive ones that held my interest like the ‘Mission Battle’ mode. This is a mode that has players hopping around in a board game-like interface and completing missions that almost always involve fighting some character, but with slight additional twists like environmental dangers (extreme blowing winds, sinking sand, deadly mice) or specific objectives (ring-out required, first to hit the floor loses).
