Sonic Unleashed
From Sonic Retro
Sonic Unleashed is an upcoming video game in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The name was trademarked by Sega on March 12, 2008. Screenshots of cut scenes and gameplay were posted on March 22, 2008 along with a video shortly after. The same site that first posted the screenshots later indicated that Sega had confirmed them as official material, although no major gaming news sites have received such confirmation. The game will have gameplay similar to the Sonic Rush series, while occasionally changing to a more Sonic Adventure experience in levels. It has been confirmed for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii, and Playstation 2.
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Story
The story starts with Eggman's battlefleet in orbit of Earth, and Sonic goes to stop him. Eggman then unleashes one of his robots and captures Sonic. But Sonic turns super and breakes free. With his creation destroyed Eggman flees with Super Sonic pursueing. Eggman the leads him to another machine he made. He then lures Super Sonic into a chamber which rips the Chaos Emeralds from him and harnesses their power to unleash a beast from the center of the planet which breakes it apart. But there were two unintended side effects the chaos emeralds are changed somehow and Sonic turns into a Werehog. Sonic then falls torward the broken planet. Sonic must put Earth (now in chaos) back together.
Development
According to the Sonic CulT, the game is currently being developed by Sega's development teams from Japan, the United States, and Europe in an attempt to reinvent the franchise for a multiplatform release in November 2008.
The current confirmed playable characters are Sonic and his new werewolf form. Tails has also been confirmed as playable, although in mini-games rather than actual 'Sonic' gameplay.
The daytime level design of the PS2 and Wii versions is being handled by Dimps (creators of the Sonic Advance series and Sonic Rush) instead of members from the former Sonic Team. The game will feature an entirely different engine rather than the Hedgehog Engine.
Yoshihisa Hashimoto claims that “…The whole development team is aiming to make Sonic Unleashed the best Sonic game ever, and that includes the Genesis-era titles! We hope that even people who haven’t played Sonic games will feel “Wow, Sonic is back!”…”
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| Sonic games for the Xbox 360 |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) | Sonic the Hedgehog (Live Arcade) (2007) | Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Live Arcade) (2007) | Sonic Unleashed (upcoming) |
| Sonic games for the Sony Playstation 3 |
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| Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) | Sonic Unleashed (upcoming) |
| Sonic games for the Sony Playstation 2 |
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| Sonic Heroes (2003/2004) | Sonic Mega Collection Plus (2004/2005) | Sonic Gems Collection (2005) | Shadow the Hedgehog (2005) | Sonic Riders (2006) | Sega Genesis Collection (2006) | Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008) | Sonic Unleashed (upcoming) |
| Sonic games for the Nintendo Wii |
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| Sonic and the Secret Rings (2007) | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007) | Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (2008) | Sonic Unleashed (upcoming) | Sonic and the Black Knight (upcoming) |
