New Sonic Unleashed trailer is AMAZING!!!

I don't really care for the apparent abundance of interactive cutscenes. The 2d sections do look nice, and I liked the music. If anything, this seems to borrow a lot from the Sonic Rush games on DS, which are fun. I guess I'll try it, but this doesn't make me crazy excited.

And you can call me a Negative Ned because this game looks like a giant version of God of War and RE4's Quick Time Events (I think that's what they're called).

How much control over Sonic do you actually HAVE in this game? Looks like more of a rythm game than a sonic game.

It looks good, but I'm still going to wait for a D-toid Review on it.

It looks like you're on rails and you just move left or right to avoid crap. Admittedly, the scenery is beautiful, and its EXTREMELY fast. I dunno tho. This looks like something I'll have to see more of to be sure. One can always hope!

There are a couple of scenes that show Sonic engaging in fights with his homing attack. I think the trailer is trying to show off the fact that the Sonic game will have a heavy focus on speed. There is at least one scene in that trailer where Sonic isn't running.

Don't forget that the original Sonic games where nothing but running right and jumping when appropriate. If you mess up the quick time events, Sonic will obviously smack into a wall or whatever and get slowed down here. Look at it like this: This doesn't look a thing like the last Xbox 360 Sonic game.

Well, at least they didn't replace the platforming with vehicle creation and racing! I'll reserve judgment till I see how much of this is QTEs over platforming.

I WANT to want it.

and contrary to popular belief, classic sonic was NOT all about running and jumping. the speed was the reward for having excellent flow and momentum. you didn't have to barrel through the loop dee loop if you didn't want to.

but most of us forgot about that thanks to the SA games, where fast set pieces were key. and now we'll all settle for going fast through the game.

Are you serious? It look like crap to me. It seems to focus seems almost solely on speed, but that's not was Sonic was ever truly about. The speed was just the frosting on the cake that came in short burst to add some more excitement, but the games really shined in platforming. Seriously, it doesn't look like you do anything except watch and occasionally hit a button. I'm sorry but if anyone thinks of the original Sonic games when they see this, then they really don't know much about good Sonic games. Also, no, I don't consider the Dreamcast Sonic's very good either, Genesis is where it was best.

yeah... Sega trailers are always good. Erm the games....

Wow, I'm blown away, it looks like how a Sonic game should be, and looks pretty damn fun. It looks like Sega has finally figured out how to do Sonic in 3D, and for that, I'm happy.

The 2D/3D element seem to mesh together, quite well. The sense of speed is awesome, and it doesn't look like the game will be playing itself. We'll see how the 3D platforming works out I guess, but this portion of the game look.

Very happy.

I'm fapping right now.

Disclaimer: This trailer is comprised entirely of holding forward on the analog stick.

Damn, even Sonic and the Secret Rings had more gameplay than this. That said, I still have hope for this game. Hopefully they can achieve the right balance of interactivity and fancy shit.

Despite the fact that gameplay seems to be practically non-existent, I do like the fact that he appears to be destroying robots solely with his hyper-accelerated face. Though I would much rather he would take them out with his spiky hedgehogedness like in the old days.

Its like seeing a friend who you thought died years ago; hopeful, you're hopeful but your buddy could be a zombie or a robot assassin. In other words, i'm cautiously optimistic. I want this game to be good.

I'll be the fifteenth to say that this looks like Quick Time Events: Sonic the Hedgehog Edition. Sonic is not all about speed- as was said before, the moments of speed were a sort of reward for passing through more complicated pieces of platforming.

The levels in the Genesis games were full of things that would slow you down, such as enemies, spikes, pits, water hazards, and platforming segments. And you could bypass many of them through quick reflexes and smart use of momentum. In the those games, you would simply have to take an alternate route through the level if you missed a jump- in the later games there was only one path, and missing a jump meant either certain death or a temporary stop in the action. It essentially became nothing more than "Jump through the hoops or die," so to speak.

That said, I'm still hesitant. This is a step in the right direction, but it looks far from great.

Ya... this does not look like much imo... honestly it's looks like it's nothign but the god of war target event things; those were pretty cool, but the real gameplay was just about everything else... i can't really see what the player is really doing... and i'm really turned off by the whole "just barrel through all the enemies"; i remember back when running into an enemy was one the biggest messes you could get into when moving at high speeds. I'm with jestarinc on this... really, the old sonic game were NOT about speed

i tired to find the old article that mentioned downright everything that sega needed to do to make a good sonic game... but i can't find it for the life of me... i remember one of the points being that Sonic was a platformer FIRST and a speed game like second...

And while looking for that article i stumbled upon this from sonic and the secret rings....
http://www.destructoid.com/sonic-wii-video-footage-a-new-sonic-game-that-doesn-t-suck--29573.phtml#comment
Key line...
"Believe it or not, it seems as if SEGA may actually be capable of making a Sonic game that doesn't suck. I know, it's odd to think of, but the more footage that slips out for Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii, the more it appears as if these peeps finally got their act together."

ah, how history repeats itself...
do yourselves a favor, and don;t get excited or overhyped... it will only make the fall hurt a lot more... keep low expectation and you can never be hurt (and if it turns out to be good, then its still a plus, win-win)

@golemnist
zombie? robot? No no no, you see in this case it's a werewolf kinda thing...

I looks nice and I am glad they have kinda stepped back more into the roots of the game.

However, I think too looks too linear... I did notice some altern\aztive routes in that trailer, however not enough for my liking.

The thing I liked about the original ones where the fact that you could choose to a pretty high degree your exact route and have a choice and combination of many.

This looks like every so often you can go one way or the other which ain't enough for me.

Shame as it had potential if only there was more routes open like the original sonic games abck in the old Megadrive days.

Seeing the title, I expected a revelation from SEGA, a true realisation about what made their games entertaining and a return to form. What I saw was a pretty QTA game.

Was Sonic a QTA game when it was released? No, it wasn't. It was a platformer. Don't get me wrong, if the game is a fun QTA game, then who am I to argue that it's wrong. The problem is that SEGA apparently just aren't getting it - they're not good at them.

Just look at that video. Did the player crash once? No, that's why it looked like fun. What about when you crash, lose a third of your health bar, spend 10 seconds recovering, and then die a moment later when it happens twice more? Will it be fun then?

There are two ways the sonic franchise can go, effectively returning to form as close as possible. One is a 2D, HD Sonic game - the equivalent of Street Fighter HD - the original style of platforming elements, some dry wit and self reference, and a massive cast of sonic characters for fun.

If however the franchise has to go 3D, I would be partial to seeing a more open-world style of platforming. One that doesn't require you to do anything, but that you want to do because it's there. But honestly, doing a 3D sonic game would require a massive overhaul of their current attitude, more than just a simple "hey, this is what you should do".

@RAB

I agree, the music does sound like shit. It sounds like a rejected track from a Mcdonald's commercial.

sonic heroes, while fucking shit, had two things that are KEY for a good sonic game:

awesome looking levels

and

amazing music.


let's just keep that in mind, sega.

I'll be honest, I was never really ever into sonic, but is it strange that i now have sexual feelings for this new and improved beauty? looks sweet. sounds sweet, lets see how it plays

It looks like it plays itself. Fast paced QTE actions to Giggy music. But, i do not think that this is the game itself because we don't know its control schemes yet and we've seen only some bits of Gameplay.
I don't know what to feel guys, seriously. I hope this is a real change of Sonic franchise.... But, I can't be too excited....

this looks freaking awesome! now if they put as much effort into the gameplay as they did with the trailers, sonic wouldn't be crap

This looks just like the Wii game that's already out, but with a camera that every so often turns it into a side-scroller. And that Wii game only held my interest for barely 20 minutes.

In this trailer with all of the bad guys jumping up on you, there seems to be zero rection time. Which probably explains why the levels seem so barren of enemies. They need to get rid of almost all the behind the back camera shots, only use them for emphasis of things like corkscrews and loops. Just bring it back to its side-scrolling roots, but in 2.5-D, like New Super Mario Brothers. That would get every Sonic fan an unlimited amount of joy. That would be "doing it right".

(Or, you know. There's that whole High Def 2D thing that 9url=http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sega/2008/04/sonic-the-hedgehog-2-hd-remix-may-become-reality.html]their fan-base is going to beat them to[/url].)