Namco has released a large set of images from Soul Calibur V and portraying the well-known fighters Hilde, Maxi, Tira, and Vold. The story is set chronologically seventeen years after the events in the fourth installment in the series. Many of the most famous fighters in the series will also meet again in the fifth chapter as Siegfried and Mitsurugi, the latter will have a much more aged than the other characters.