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 Send to email | Sonic Unleashed: Half Classic, Half Stretchy Werewolf [E308] in E308 Impressions Original Sega sonic unleashed |  By Mike Fahey
el 17-Jul-2008 |  Oooo, so very close. I sat in on a presentation of Sonic Unleashed at the Sega booth today, and things look pretty much as I feared when I first heard about the game. On one hand you have the daylight gameplay, which features Sonic racing across levels inspired by real-world locations such as Greece and China, alterating between the 3D platforming we know from Sonic Adventure and the 2D perspective from classic Sonic titles.
The sense of speed in the daylight sections is completely amazing. The Sega rep informed us that once Sonic fills up his ring power and boosts he can reach the real-world equivalent of 300 miles per hour. Watching Sonic speed through the levels made my hands ache to get my hands on the controller. Then the evening comes. Sonic Unleashed begins with Dr. Eggman using the chaos emeralds on Sonic, cursing him to evenings filled with beat-em up platforming and fuzzy, implausibly stretchy arms. Yes, Sonic becomes a were-hog, a hulking beast that runs slowly on all fours, beats up hordes of enemies at a time with his giant fists, and uses his elastic arms to help him navigate some traditional platforming segments. The difference between gameplay neatly parallels the shifting of my emotions while watching the demo in action. The daylight portions had me grinning from ear-to-ear, bringing to mind the magic of Sonic games long since past. Why does Sega then shift gears and give us a beat-em-up, with gameplay elements that have nothing to do with the original premise of the franchise? I'd imagine the idea men at Sega are as split as Sonic is over this next game. A part of them realizes http://publish.kotaku.com/ged/5026505?poststatus=savedthat fans want gameplay similar to the 2D platformers of the past, while another portion believes they are keeping the franchise fresh and new by adding these new concepts. With 50% of the game night and 50% of the game day, Sega has effectively halved my interest in the title. When we said we hated the stupid tacked on 3D gimmicky elements of the 3D Sonic games, we didn't mean we hated them only 50% of the time. 50% of crap and marshmallows is still 50% crap.
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| Sonic Unleashed: Half Classic, Half Stretchy Werewolf [E308] | | Oooo, so very close. I sat in on a presentation of Sonic Unleashed at the Sega booth today, and things look pretty much as I feared when I first heard about the game. On one hand you have the daylight gameplay, which features Sonic racing across levels inspired by real-wo [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Jul-2008 by Mike Fahey in E308 Impressions Original Sega sonic unleashed
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| TGS 08: We love Sonic Unleashed's Werehog ... costume |  Filed under: Culture, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
As much as we hate how Sonic's roots have been clawed out by some furry, fanged and stretchy-limbed abomination, we must grudgingly admit that t [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Oct-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in CosplayRandomnessSonicSonic-the-HedgehogSonic-UnleashedTGS-08TGS-2008
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Coming this holiday, Sonic Unleashed is the first Sega title built on the Sonic-loving "Hedgehog Engine," a next-gen platform in development since 2005. Perhaps to show off the new engine's muscle, Sonic Unleashed [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-May-2008 by Brian Crecente in OriginalSegaSega game daySonicsonic unleashed
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| New Sonic Unleashed Screens [Sonic Team] | | There's little doubt, Sonic Unleashed is looking a lot better than Sonic Team's other recent outing most of us are still trying to forget. In fact, any Sonic game without a blue hedgehog's desire to t [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Sep-2008 by Adam Barenblat in sonic team Ps2 PS3 Screens sonic unleashed Wii Xbox 360
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| Sega Japan NoThankYou.JPGs Sonic Unleashed For PS2 [Sonic] | | Sonic Unleashed is getting, erm, unleashed on every console under the North American sun: Xbox 360, Wii, PLAYSTATION 3 and PlayStation. Retitled as Sonic: World Adventure for the Japanese market, the SEGA game is not getting a PS2 release in The Land of the Rising Sun. [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Oct-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Sonic Japan Nothankyou Ps2 sonic unleashed thunderforce IV
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| Team Sonic Upbeat About Sonic Criticism [Sega] | | Sonic has it rough. His games like 2006's Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic Heroes often get torn apart by many. That must be pretty damn hard for the Team Sonic developers. Actually, according to Sonic Unleashed director Yoshihisa Hashimoto (not pictured), [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Nov-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in Sega News sonic unleashed
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| TGS 08: Sonic Unleashed meets us halfway | | Filed under: Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, TGS
Comparing Sonic Unleashed to 2006's Sonic The Hedgehog nightmare is an utterly useless endeavor. Y [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Oct-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in JoystiqFeaturesSegaSonicSonic-UnleashedTGS-2008
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| Eyeball Panic! [Night Note] | | To: Crecente From: Bashcraft RE: Back in the Saddle Again While putting my disposable contacts in this morning, one of them split in half while it was in my eye. Half of got stuck in the upper eyelid, and the other half getting stuck in my lower lid. I couldn't see anything as my eye went bloodshot. Started to getting panicky like until Mrs. Bashcraft was [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Oct-2008 by Brian Ashcraft in night note Note
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| Hands-On The Force Unleashed Impressions [Pre E308] | | Going in to my time with Star Wars The Force Unleashed, I figured the best the game could do was recapture the fun of playing Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II on a console. While The Force Unleashed pushes the graphics and, to some degree, the AI, forward, the experience of playing Unleashed was, as I had [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Jul-2008 by Brian Crecente in
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| Readers pick best webcomic: Lego my statue |  Filed under: Culture, Online, Polls
Tim Harding has redeemed his score change. His one-half contribution to 2P Start's "Lego my statue" strip this week one-half earned him one-half of the award for the week's best game-related [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-May-2008 by Ross Miller in 2p-startfanboysindiana-joneslegolego-indiana-joneswebcomicxkcd
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