Sonic is Back!
SEGA stalwart speeds back onto consoles present and (dare we hope?) future!
Call yourself Knuckles? Take that!
The mighty SEGA has apparently just realised they've got a whole load of bankable IP in the form of a certain spiky blue hedge-dwelling mammal. We've mixed feelings about titles like Mario Baseball, Mario Soccer and Mario Party 7. Surely Nintendo realise that when people clamour for 'more Mario games' that's not quite what they're after?
The new Sonic stuff keeps things strictly on a platform tip. First up is Sonic Gems Collection for the GameCube. The game is a compilation of bits and bobs from SEGA's Sonic-related past. As well as containing six Game Gear titles featuring the speedy one, it also features Sonic CD, Sonic R and Sonic The Fighters, which respectively only appeared on SEGA CD, the Saturn and in the arcade. OK, so The Fighters isn't strictly a platformer...
Releasing across all current generation home consoles is Shadow The Hedgehog. You may remember him if you happened to play the slightly underwhelming Sonic Adventure 2. Some sort of scientificallly created superbeing in hedgehog form, Shadow is being used as the main character in a game which mixes trademark fast platform gameplay and third person shooter action in the Ratchet and Clank mould. We wouldn't be comfortable seeing Sonic toting firearms and neither, it appears, would SEGA. But competition is hotting up in the world of Third Person Shooters with Conker: Live and Reloaded on Xbox and Battalion Wars on 'Cube both forthcoming. We'll reserve judgement on this one for now.
We're more excited about Sonic Rush, coming to DS. The game will be a 2.5D platformer, and the shots we've seen are the most reminiscent yet of previous Sonic games, with loops and corkscrews like the original. They've thrown in a new character too, called Blaze the Cat. Umm, wouldn't a cat try and eat a hedgehog?
Fourth and last in the hedgehog related line-up is Sonic the Hedgehog on mobile phone. Which is just that: the original Megadrive game on your phone. We don't really pay too much attention to this mobile phone gaming malarkey but it's certainly coming on, isn't it?
So we're going to be seeing a lot more of the be-trainered blue one. Rumours are even starting to do the rounds that he's been seen on the Xbox 360. Let's hope his legacy is done justice.
The new Sonic stuff keeps things strictly on a platform tip. First up is Sonic Gems Collection for the GameCube. The game is a compilation of bits and bobs from SEGA's Sonic-related past. As well as containing six Game Gear titles featuring the speedy one, it also features Sonic CD, Sonic R and Sonic The Fighters, which respectively only appeared on SEGA CD, the Saturn and in the arcade. OK, so The Fighters isn't strictly a platformer...
Releasing across all current generation home consoles is Shadow The Hedgehog. You may remember him if you happened to play the slightly underwhelming Sonic Adventure 2. Some sort of scientificallly created superbeing in hedgehog form, Shadow is being used as the main character in a game which mixes trademark fast platform gameplay and third person shooter action in the Ratchet and Clank mould. We wouldn't be comfortable seeing Sonic toting firearms and neither, it appears, would SEGA. But competition is hotting up in the world of Third Person Shooters with Conker: Live and Reloaded on Xbox and Battalion Wars on 'Cube both forthcoming. We'll reserve judgement on this one for now.
We're more excited about Sonic Rush, coming to DS. The game will be a 2.5D platformer, and the shots we've seen are the most reminiscent yet of previous Sonic games, with loops and corkscrews like the original. They've thrown in a new character too, called Blaze the Cat. Umm, wouldn't a cat try and eat a hedgehog?
Fourth and last in the hedgehog related line-up is Sonic the Hedgehog on mobile phone. Which is just that: the original Megadrive game on your phone. We don't really pay too much attention to this mobile phone gaming malarkey but it's certainly coming on, isn't it?
So we're going to be seeing a lot more of the be-trainered blue one. Rumours are even starting to do the rounds that he's been seen on the Xbox 360. Let's hope his legacy is done justice.
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Pilot13 22 May 2005 20:35
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Sonic rocks and if you disagree you're going to be forced to replay everysingle sonic game from his back log for eternity on every system, ever. Didnt they do this for saturn?
Any way, Sonic R is a bit crap, i finished it in an hour...
Any way, Sonic R is a bit crap, i finished it in an hour...