The kids and I, along with the kids’ Uncle Evan, poked around in Soul Caliber III this afternoon. We discovered that the character generation system is decent but not fantastic (we’re possibly spoiled by such fare as City of Heroes in that respect), and the RTS game mode is far better than I originally feared. Evan was given cause to consider that maybe leaving his Gamecube at the kids’ place for months on end, thus giving Alex ample opportunity for practice at Soul Caliber II, may not have been the best idea he’s ever had. (Let’s not even get into how badly I got thrashed by the boy. Le sigh.)

I’ll be leaving the game system over there for a couple of weeks so they can play around with that game. This also gives my daughter a chance to finish up the first Fullmetal Alchemist game. What a good dad I am, eh?