Soul calibur II is a 2002 fighting game developed by Project Soul and published by Namco and the third installment in the Soul calibur series of weapon-based fighting games. It is the sequel to Soul calibur, which was released in July 1998. Originally intended to be released on Sega's NAOMI board,[6] the game was released on the Namco System 246 arcade board before being ported to the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox in 2003.