  Revealed: How Stars Wars got into Soul Calibur  Namco doing it
for the consumers  How exactly did Darth Vader and Yoda end up
in Soul Calibur IV?  Did George Lucas emerge from the closet to
reveal himself a massive fan of the beat-'em-up and came begging
at Namco's door for their inclusion?  Not exactly.  Speaking to,
the game's director Katsutoshi Sasaki provided this rather non-
glamorous explanation of how the Force daddies made it into the
sequel:  "The thing that I want to make clear is that we make
the game for consumers... It's not for us, it's not for the
company. When we think about what makes the consumers happy,
what do they want to play, what makes them excited about the
game, that was guest characters.  When we thought about what
guest characters would fit in the Soul Calibur universe, we
naturally ended up with Vader and Yoda."  The gaming world did a
double-take last week when it was confirmed that Darth Vader and
Yoda were appearing in Soul Calibur IV.