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P.P.A. wrote:I never liked S3K's levels. Not only were they way too long, but they often lacked alternate routes and the flow was horribly broken. Doors and rising sand in SPZ2 anyone?

I'll hazzard a guess that you are about 14 and your first game was Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, right?

I read that somewhere too, but I suppose they just couldn't resist the big money.

Until I see weresonic with some terrible gameplay mechanic, that you're forced to play through on multiple occasions even if you don't want to, I think as a character it's a fairly good compromise within the fanbase. There are many fans who, for whatever reason despise the character of Shadow, and y...

According to Sega Europe the game has been delayed again, this time it's Q1 2008 for everyone. See here.

It strikes me as kind of funny that a company with a solid interest an in creating games for Western audiences, still insists that some of its games are handled by teams with largely Japanese developers. Why not devolve responsibility for main Sonic games to some of the newly acquired western studio...

Shame about the release date too. I just hope the video is old.

Pepperidge wrote:And according to the NID.com people, it's likely already been over a year in development.

Actual programming time began last November I believe, although overall development time is another story.

The controls in that video do look broken, but it could be any number of factors to be honest. I reckon he's standing too close to the sensor bar, as the jerky motion of the pointer on screen always occurs when you do that. Or maybe the batteries are running out? Heck, it's a busy show :cool:. Anywa...

Hmm, I'm not too keen on the voice. When American voice actors try to use the British accent it always hurts my ears, it's never quite "right" and sounds forced and exaggerated for the most part.

The trailer's been released, and you'll find it here: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/player.php?mode=article&id=1005 There's also some screens here: http://uk.media.ds.ign.com/media/900/900363/imgs_1.html The trailer has taken me by surprise actually. I've kind of had my doubts about this game...

Maybe comparing it to Toy Kingdom wasn't the best way to describe all of it. It just doesn't seem Sonic-y to me. There are too many bold solid colours, things seem bland and cartoonish, ect. If this was a Kirby game it'd be fine, but it's just not the same style Sonic games usually have. This serio...

http://www.sega.com/gamesite/sonicrushadv/

The official site is up. I like first theme, but the rest is generic crap really. Also the ice level looks fairly dull and lifeless in the shots they've put up, though I'll reserve judgement until we see some videos.

http://segadirect.jp/Catalog/CustomPages/CustomDetail2.aspx?File=sonicrushad_nds.htm Courtesy of a Gamefaqs poster, the rest of the level names are all confirmed here. Some of these levels sounds fairly interesting I must admit. It's been noted however that none of the tracks have the funky names of...

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/07/qa-bioware-spea.html A new interview, pretty much full of the same questions and answers as you'd expect at this stage. However, there's a few lines in this one that make me feel a bit more confident, the wording of this segment in particular: We plan on taking th...

Couple of the main previews are up: http://uk.gamespot.com/wii/action/nightsjourneyofdreams/news.html?sid=6174475&om_act=convert&om_clk=newlyadded&tag=newlyadded;title;1 http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/803/803661p1.html IGN thinks the frame rate is choppy and Gamespot seem to think it's solid, so tak...

Well I just rewatched these videos again, and overall it's more positive impressions for me now. The gameplay does seem fairly sparse and bitty, particularly the distribution of loops amongst other things, but this is obviously a pretty early build of the game, not least because of the lack of music...

WW, what's it like being blind?

It looks about on par with Shadow the Hedgehog. I mean technically, rather than stylistically, of course. It's pretty sad, considering how fantastic Secret Rings looked. I guess Sonic Team USA really isn't strong in this department. I wonder if they're making the game in Renderware. I don't know, i...

The webmaster of the site the image comes from just posted this on Sonic Stadium: Ah, Cold Dog must have picked up that banner from my site then! Okay, let me clear things up for you. Yes, the banner is official. I'm not going to say "because I got it from a very reliable source" or anything like th...

While this is true, I don't get why both Sega of America and Sega Europe would have left news of any additional characters out of their press releases. I mean heck they even mentioned Tails in both, so if they had other characters to reveal they'd have divulged surely? Also, everything Segaholic2 ju...

Edit : Damn beaten to it.

It's almost certainly fanmade though. Nowhere else seems to have it.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=162369 This is fairly interesting. The original composer is back on board doing the music for Journey of Dreams according to Iizuka. Not sure what to make of this though: "The sequel is built around a dramatic storyline that will engage the player ...

Haha Esrever that picture comparison. I would say however, that this game is obviously nowhere near finished, and over the time between now and Autumn extra detail is likely to be added. These are also only a few snapshots, and may or may not be an accurate reflection of the rest of the level and/or...

http://www.sega.com have some additional details. It confirms that there will be 2 acts per level, as with Sonic Rush, and there's also going to be a snowboarding section apparently. Incidentally, I am really glad that this is a single player game (so far at least), this was one of my few gripes wit...

Here's Captain Whiskers. I'm sure I've seen this guy somewhere before...