Would not count it out just yet. Iizuka(Sonic Team lead) said he wanted to change the structure of Sonic games. The way you progress. Also from tease image alot of noticed that way the world is designed may lend itself to open world. Like a revamp of Action and adventure scense.

Anything that was not CGI was gameplay. More than half the trailer was gameplay

For some reason the thing that stood out was the figure 8 running... but it looks great to me :)

THey could barely get it to work in those old 3d SOnic games, the camera only was a pain, you expect to get it right in an open world setting? I envy your optisim. BUt im not seeing it. I would buy that day1 with whatever system its for(minus Xbone), if it worked.

The trailer was a letdown for me to be honest :( It looks to kiddy. More kiddy than usual Sonic games.

The trailer starts with the 6bad guys coming out of nowhere to attack small animals... Reminds me of Mario games where it always start with Bowser coming out of nowhere to kidnap Peach. I'm afraid this game will be to kiddy with a crappy story such as ''6 bad guys came to do missdeads. We don't know why, they just do, so Sonic needs to save the day!''. I hope I'm wrong tho. Also those 6bad guys growling and doing their evil laughs like they were straight from a cartoon for 8years old did'nt do it for me at all.

That game has to much of a skylander feel to me. And sadly everything from that trailer points me into thinking that that game has been made to attract that Skylander crowd, wich we all know are 8year olds.

Well, it has a 3DS version also being made from the ground up. There both the same game, just different system.

If I can convert 2D into 3D for Home Console gaming by the time I go to get this game, then I will get e Wii U version, otherwise I will get the 3DS version.

You can convert GameCube games & 7th Gen Home Console games into 3D too. I'm not sure about N64 because it might look like flat prices of cardboard with space in between them like the PS2 & Xbox does.

This thread needs moar figure 8 GIFs!

Anyways, all this awesome Sonic news...

well of course most companies know what they are doing. But im not talking about those guys im talking about Sonic Team in general. SOnic 06 was the last full 3d Sonic and that had TERRIBLE cameras, horrid. In there defense they did rush it out the door, but even Unleased had some bad cameras. YOur idea is kind of flawed TBH because you cant compare most open world to SOnic. THey move at a much slower clip so the camera issue is not that serious as their is not that much happening. YOu want Sonic to be able to run around full speed in an open world, with precise controls his kind of game demands. Not gonna happen.

Honestly the story has always been a side thing. Generations story was "big evil darkness thing messes with time...um, fix it!" and I had a blast with it because it had greta level design and tight controls.  Sonic has had some...interesting story devleopments and they even half mock it in Generations.

The animals remind me of the gensis entries and the enemies are different, I would be fine with Robotnik / Eggman taking a break here.

On the 3DS any word on Sprites or Polygons for character models?  I love me some sprites...but will accept polys.