If you have never played Sonic the Hedgehog for the Xbox 360 or PS3, I urge you to download the demo -- and I am being serious. It is so bad that I was actually impressed by what I saw. The game was so ill-conceived and shoddily designed it was almost artistic. Sonic and the Secret Rings for the Wii, while an improvement, was still a massive disappointment. It seems that Sonic Team knows these facts, as it has gone to great lengths to assure fans that Sonic Unleashed is not like those works of shame.
"As a development team, we originally started off this project planning to create Sonic Adventure 3", stated lead designer Yoshihisa Hashimoto. "In our minds, this game will have more in common with the older Sonic Adventure series. It has no relation to Sonic the Hedgehog [on PS3/Xbox 360] or Sonic and the Secret Rings."
Hashimoto also shared a few slight details about the upcoming game, which will be made available for all three current-gen consoles. He promised that Sonic Unleashed will "purely be Sonic's game" and that the spin attack and homing attack will return. That's fine, provided the homing attack doesn't randomly send you off the edge of cliffs in this one.
That bone of contention, the "Were-Sonic" was also touched upon. In his new monstrous form, Sonic will be "a slightly slower and yet more agile beast. Where Sonic dodges past obstacles, Were-Sonic manhandles them out of the way and can toss enemies around like nobody's business." He's also going to use his long arms to swing across a level as opposed to running.
I am as cynical as the next man about this game, but I am still willing to give it a chance, Werehog and all. We really haven't seen it in action and won't know if it's good or bad until then. By all means, keep the cynicism (we've been burned a LOT by Sonic Team) but still, let's keep an open mind.
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1:16 PM on 04.09.2008
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Just coming out and admitting that all of those games were shit and going back to Sonic Adventure (the 3D Sonic games that were actually good) is a step in the right direction. Hopefully this game won't suck donkey dick
Um, because they want a different style of gameplay? He's big, he's strong, and he's slow. It's not exactly backwards, it's a pretty tried and tested gameplay style.
You sound like Fox News. "Whatever happened to the day of Pong!"
Do you want it to be supremely easy?
@DaedHead8
It could have been worse. Vampire Sonic anyone? That way he can really suck now.
As far as the game goes. I've always been a Sonic fan, but I agree that the 3d games with the exception of Adventure 1, 2 and Heroes were all disappointments.
AH i didnt mean to sound like fox news!
oh and dont forget sonic R and that one song they played over and over again.
I understand the desire for different gameplay. However, I'm one of those folks that really only appreciates the first Sonic game. Therefore all I want out of Sonic is speed and power ups to increase his speed. I guess I'm old fashioned that way.
As I said, be cynical as Hell (I certainly am), but I'm not going to outright say it is absolute shit without having even seen it.
This will probably be rubbish... werewolf? Though if they avoid the typical mess of terrible additional characters, I might go for it. Maybe...
Fair enough, I'll keep an open mind.
@Morrius
If you haven't, check out Sonic CD. It was for sega cd but it also can be found for PC. IMO it's the only sonic game besides the first one thats worth playing, even if it does have a wacky time travel story line.
And TsunamiKitsune, when you read this, please don't kill yourself.
I completely disagree with everything you said, and think you're a dick for saying it.
/non-important rant
Myself, although I'm not excited about "were-sonic", I realize that it could easily be worse, they could've made him "emo with a bad attitude", oh, wait, they did, Shadow (blech). Like the previous post about Sonic games on Dtoid, Sonic was built for platforming first, speed second, so taking a different approach to the platforming COULD be a good thing.
Has Sonic ever had guns? I think that would be a cool new concept if they were really looking for one. Have him run and do some amazing jump off a ramp in to the air, then bust out double uzi's and pull off some Devil May Cry nonsense before landing and getting back to the normal platforming... just a thought. That would be cool in my book but I guess maybe that would be too cool for Sega.
Doesn't even have to be guns really. Could be anything. Missile pack firing, ring tossing, spike shooting, grappling red shoes...
A new hope for Sonic? :D
Wait, you didn't think Heroes was a disappointment? I'm sorry, but that game was worse than both Shadow and the new Sonic the Hedgehog put together...
In my opinion, Sonic Heroes was the stalemate of the franchise. Not quite as good as SA1, not quite as bad as people make it out to be. On one end, it did go back to basics of Emerald collecting and the level design is undoubtedly the best we've seen barring Rush.
The camera angle sucked as usual, but the idea of teams with each person with a different attribute was a novel concept in a gameplay standpoint. Thats why I believe there should be one and ONLY one iteration of that game, but the game was mediocre at best.
The camera always sucked though. This game gives me faith.
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yeah, it's gonna suck. sorry fans.
If they had said, "We're trying to make it like the Genesis games, but with better graphics and more creative levels," then I would be obsessed with this game like a heroin addict. And it would inevitably disappoint me.
:)
I don't care what anyone says, my hopes are officially "up".
Oh and "a slightly slower and yet more agile beast"? Really? That doesn't make any sense to me. Wouldn't bigger/slower also mean less agile? Regardless, I'm holding off judgment until I see what they've actually decided to do with this whole "were-hog" angle.
Rawr.
I think they mean nimble when they say agile. Were-sonic is slower but he's much more flexible and maneuverable whereas regular Sonic is about more reckless speed. Well that's what I reckon anyway
but finally Sonic Adventure 3 this is the kind of thing I want to see :-D
And I don't care what anyone says, Sonic Adventure sucks. The Sonic levels were sort of good, but the shitty camera and loose controls made them a chore. And the extra characters were awful. A fucking slow, fat fishihg cat and a laser shooting robot? For a SONIC game? Were they on paote when they though6 that up?
a SLOWER Sonic?
WHHHHAATATATTTT
Never mind design. These guys don't know how to develop software at all -- except graphics routines, of course.
Hint to Sega Devs. Never say, use or even think "Adventure" when you do anything Sonic. "Adventure" is the cancer that is killing Sonic. Don't beleive me? Look at Sonic Rush then look at Sonic Rush Adventure. What's so wrong with "Robotnik is turning everything into robots and you have to stop him"? No Adventure. No Story. Not another forgetable character to add to the 20 or so you have now. Just Sonic, Robotnik, and a ton of enslaved animal robot's between them? It's not rocket science Sega. Just model the game after "Sonic 3 and Knuckels" (since they should have been one game to begin with) or Sonic CD and go from there.
Also, Show me actual gameplay of a level from start to finish and not some touched up trailer trash that hides how the game actually plays. I know how good you guys can make a trailer. Now show me you can make a game.