Great Sword

Great Sword (グレートソード, Great Sword^?) is one of Strife's weapons in Soulcalibur III, and Siegfried's weapons in Soulcalibur IV.

Its appearance in Soulcalibur IV is similar to Edge Master's unnamed Zweihänder from Soulcalibur, but its design and name was changed to a nodachi from Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny onwards.

Soulcalibur III

Great Sword (SCIII)
Wielder	Strife
Weapon type	Iron Sword
Price	Free

Great Sword is the starting weapon for all users of the Iron Sword discipline.

Soulcalibur IV

Great Sword (SCIV)
Wielder	Siegfried
Weapon type	Zweihänder
Price	Free
Attack	120
Defense	50
HP	35
Power	30
Impact	0
Boost	0
Gauge	0
Special	30
Native skill	Alignment

It, along with Soul Calibur, is available by default. It has Alignment equipped by default as a skill, which increases or decreases the player's stats depending on the opponent's alignment.

Trivia

• Great Sword's Soulcalibur IV design appeared earlier in Soulcalibur III, as Siegfried's version of The Ancient.
  • However, in Soulcalibur Broken Destiny, its appearance was changed to that of a Japanese Ōdachi, and it also gets its name changed from グレートソード (Great Sword) to 大太刀 (Ōdachi). These changes were retained in Soulcalibur V and Soulcalibur VI, although the latter finally gave it a new English name: Large Tachi.
• A 2005 Sony Europe press disc included numerous promo images related to Soulcalibur III, including images of various weapons in the game. However, the render for the Iron Sword showed a weapon that is not actually seen in the final game. This design is actually that of Cervantes' Falchion from Soulcalibur II. While this Iron Sword goes unnamed, as the disc only contains images for the first weapons of each category, it can be assumed that this was what Great Sword originally looked like before being changed to its final design.

Gallery

A render of an Iron Sword, present on Sony PS2 press materials DVD (2005). It resembles Cervantes' Falchion from Soulcalibur II, and it does not appear in the final game.