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celine on 09 April 2008

The latest edition of Official Nintendo Magazine details the upcoming multi-platform Sonic outing: Unleashed.

  • Originally penned to be Sonic Adventure 3

  • Has no/little relation to previous 3D sonics, including 2006 and Secret Rings

  • The power of the 7 Chaos Emeralds are misused by Eggman and something changes inside Sonic's body.

  • Sonic heads around the world, with various different realistic locations.

  • No direct mechanics from Wii's Sonic Rings, but uses a move known as "quick step" to allow for fast movement left or right.

  • Sonic Boost allows for a quick boost in speed (much like in Secret Rings) by collecting rings throughout the course, as well as a Sonic Dash move.

  • Sonic's classic moves like spin and homing attacks make a return.

  • The game turns from day to night at times, day seeing Sonic in his usual form and at night players will slow down and manipulate objects...

  • In Unleashed players will also use the Nunchuck in some form (presumably for analogue movement)

  • New robot creatures developed by eggman, some darker elements and some colossal beasts (one would be about 7m tall)

  • Developed from scratch to be a completely new take on Sonic.

  • Interview with lead game designer Yoshihisa Hashimoto.
    • Sonic Unleashed is due for release later this year. The Official Nintendo magazine hits stores on April 11th.

    Thanks C3 for the summary and Kotaku for the scan. 


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    SleepWaking on 09 April 2008

    So it is really coming to Wii after all, thx for this news I didn't know it yet.



    fazz on 09 April 2008

    So, those screens where really from the Wii version huh? WHO would have thought that...



    celine on 09 April 2008
    fazz said:
    So, those screens where really from the Wii version huh? WHO would have thought that...
    Well, it seems so ...

     



     “In the entertainment business, there are only heaven and hell, and nothing in between and as soon as our customers bore of our products, we will crash.”  Hiroshi Yamauchi

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    SleepWaking on 09 April 2008

    Only thing I need to know now: is it exclusive? Otherwise they just could have used the xbox360/Ps3 screens.

     

     

    ok lol already seen it. still i think they used the xbox360 screens 



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    Alpheus on 09 April 2008

    I am not going to get my hopes up(or down for that matter).

    I will just quietly wait on the corner,until it is possible to determine whether this will be as horrible as the last few 3D Sonic games or if it will actually be worth the cash.

     Hopefully the Official Nintendo Magazine is going to help us determine that. 



    ClaudeLv250 on 09 April 2008

    Og god - oh god if those screens really are from the Wii game, someone needs to necro that thread so I can laugh at a lot of people in a snarky, pompous manner.



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    stof on 09 April 2008

    They're not the Wii version. Sorry, but there really isn't any room for debate on that.



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    sc94597 on 09 April 2008

    Oh I thought the wii couldn't do the all powerful sonic unleashed gfx.



    Supposed on 09 April 2008

    People need to stop getting their hopes up for this game.