SEGA's Hashimoto-san talks Sonic Unleashed

  • Posted April 9th, 2008 at 11:47 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Sonic Unleashed lead designer Yoshihisa Hashimoto has said that the game will bare no relation to SEGA’s poorly received Sonic the Hedgehog title, released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2006.

"As a development team, we originally started off this project planning to create Sonic Adventure 3,” said 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".

As such, Hashimoto-san said that the game has been developed from the ground up, and "will purely be Sonic's new product. Of course, players will still be able to enjoy Sonic's symbolic actions such as Spin attack and Homing Attack".

Sonic Unleashed is shaping up to be a return to the series more traditional platforming roots, as well as introducing an entirely fresh concept, allowing gamers to control the blue hedgehog in werewolf form.

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  1. Emo-Mercenary | Clarky-132

    • 11:51am BST - April 9th, 2008

    My thoughts? ha. This game is pathtic, yet another pointless medicore game involving Sonic.

  2. Fiddlesworth

    • 11:53am BST - April 9th, 2008

    I loved Sonic Adventure, the graphical improvements for SA2 were nice but it was much more frustrating to play, harder through cheap annoying level design I think.

  3. Die-romantic | Demon_King

    • 11:54am BST - April 9th, 2008

    WHAT SONIC ADVENTURE 3!!! that could've been a great sequel to the amazing Sonic Adventure 2

  4. frank_magnet | Frank_Magnt

    • 12:23pm BST - April 9th, 2008

    'this game is pathetic'???? its not even out yet you fool !

    werewolf form? not too sure what to make of that.

  5. mikeghtmare | mikeghtmare

    • 12:45pm BST - April 9th, 2008

    you're right Frank, how can someone judge without even playing the game.  I agree I haven't been impressed or interested in sonic games ever since the original, but if this game is as good as the original it would be a great game.
    Why can't they stick to the original sonic formula just like they did with the New Super Mario for the DS?  Why try so hard to change something that is already proven to be good just to fit in the new 3D game category?

  6. Doogal_UK | Doogal_UK

    • 12:46pm BST - April 9th, 2008

    from the trailer it looks good, but sega can sometimes c0ck it up

  7. Syphon_Filter | Syphon_filter2

    • 5:55pm BST - April 9th, 2008

    EMO-MERCENARY, i agree you 100 % man and this game for sure will be wast of time and nothing is improving with this game at all. Its just getting worse and worse. I still have my Genesis Sega and the old Sonic  is way better then new once and i play SONIC 3D BLAST. (:

  8. The_Skul

    • 6:04pm BST - April 9th, 2008

    hopefully they'll finally get it right.  sonic hasn't been good since sonic on the dreamcast. 

  9. gingo | gingo

    • 6:50pm BST - April 9th, 2008

    psn id: gingo... i seriously doubt it will come anywhere to the 2d sonic games just as long as its better than that mess that is hardly worthy being called a sonic game

  10. Lotus

    • 12:49am BST - April 10th, 2008

    I loved sonic back in the day so im hoping this turns out to be a great game but history hasnt been kind to the hedgehog

  11. TaMszz | TaMss

    • 2:10am BST - April 10th, 2008

    Sonic adventure 3 would have been nice. :p

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    December 9th, 2008
    Developer:
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