New Sonic 06 trailer, Looks very actiony, but a bit cliche'

For anyone wanting to see the next gen Emerald Coast:

http://www.jeux-france.com/news17359_sonic...-en-action.html

I think it might be a new level, since I don't recall Sonic grabbing onto the whale's fin to cross an area of the level. Also, I'm glad to be seeing some colorful levels, rather than the whole level being an angry angst fest.

...is that the Pirates of the Carribean theme playing in the background? Sure as hell sounds like it.

I admit I watched this twice. I almost think it'd be cooler as a movie, because the cutscenes look pretty impressive but the actual gaming footage doesn't really grab me so far. I'll wait until I play it though, and I'll actually give it a chance, even though Sonic Team's recent offerings make me unable to get really hyped on this.

Edit: Just watched it again. For the love of Christ, I hope they don't mess this game up. I love how epic it looks and the stuff like Sonic tipping the Swatbot-ish thing over. If the gameplay is as good as the cinematics then I'd really want to play this. The only thing I don't like is realistic Eggman and the princess seems kinda lame (too bad it's not set in the comics universe, Princess Sally would have been pretty neat), but I'd be willing to look past that if the gameplay is good.

The gameplay looks fine IMO, especially Sonic's. Shadow's COULD be good if they use a good vehicle physics engine, but Silver looks boring :< I think there's actually a use for vehicles in the game this time though, in the new trailer you see Shadow plowing through boxes and crap. Cool kinda, but still, he should be able to chaos control through all of them :< Also, I agree with Klobber. The CG in this would be perfect for a movie, and the cut scenes look fantastic.

It kind of reminds me of Batman Begins compared to the older Batman movies (which were awesome too!). They have a good chance here to reboot the franchise and get some new fans instead of the hardcore ones. And as epic as the trailer looks, I'm just imagining all the stuff they could do in this new style. Re-introducing stuff like Mecha Sonic or the floating island in this new way could be really sweet if they do it correctly, or imagine the Death Egg making an appearance.

I wish it were animals instead of humans (apart from Robotnik), because the humans seem kinda out of place, but I like the opportunities they have here.

I also hope they get some original orchestrated music like in the trailer, that really adds to the feel of things. Get some classic Sonic-style rock for the speed levels but some more dramatic music for those cutscenes, I think it'd be awesome.

I should probably stop getting myself interested in this because it probably won't be anything like I imagine, or like the trailer leads me to believe, but the trailer has succeeded in making me, a very pessimistic oldschool Sonic fan, at least somewhat interested in playing this, where I had no interest whatsoever before. It's not a return of the oldschool Sonic I've wanted, and part of me thinks I should hate this, but for some reason I don't. The oldschool Sonic hasn't translated very well to 3D gameplay for me, so taking it in a completely different direction could be a great idea.

Please please please let this be a good game >.<

This post has been edited by Klobber on Sep 8 2006, 10:06 PM

I remember somewhere they said it was meant to be like "What if Sonic and friends were real", likely the reason there's many more lifelike environments and more humans, though SA had random people scattered on the event fields and SA2 had a scene that displayed people all over the world going oh no we're all gonna die. Atleast in this game they'll be cool looking.

I think Sonic in real life isn't a horrible idea, but it's kinda weird seeing Sonic in a realistic invironment, not to mention him doing cartoony acts such as pulling a Bugs Bunny and taping that robot with his foot lightly and it falling. I like stuff like that to be in a Sonic game, but it's weird seeing it in a realistic invironment. I'd like to see where this game goes though.

I didn't think the humor was out of place, I mean, we do have a blue cartoony looking hedgehog running around otherwise realistic environments. Like you said, Sonic's a cocky asshole, so him doing stuff like that didn't strike me as out of place.

It still reminds me more of a movie than a game though, especially because of realistic Eggman. It just looks like the kind of thing you'd see in a live action movie, a real actor with a fake 'stache to look like Robotnik.

The realistic environments/humans are what makes it look a little odd, I think the environments could be realistic but at the same time they should be more stylistic, so it doesn't look so out of place. But it's not really bothering me right now.

i can guarantee some crackpot affiliated with Sega will try to ask Sega for a deal in making a Sonic movie after this

Can someone link to the character page on that Japanese site, or post images? For some reason my browser's not even showing the link, or I'm just stupid and can't find it.

Also I now want an animated gif avatar of ugly robotnik just to freak everyone out

I wouldn't bother updrading my graphics card, I'd just play it on a lower graphics level.

Okay, I got around to watching the trailer.

The trailer presetned itself like a movie trailer, which I liked. And for the most part I liked what I saw. Like Sonic riding on an eagle. However:

I don't care about Silver and Shadow. F**k them.
I don't care about that girl, but it makes for awesome scenes like her and Sonic on the motorcycle (I like sonic on the motorcycle but not shadow. huh)
Eggman looks so f**king stupid I can't even comprehend it.

I hope, despite the new dumb characters, and Robotnik's stupid ass new look that they can manage to make a decent game.

Also the music was neat.

That beach level looks beautiful and I can atleast say I'm more interested in the game now; but also, I really don't like the looks of Shadow and Silver's levels. This game promised to deliver speed, and if it's Sonic Adventure 2 all over again I'll be pissed.

I'm happy that each character gets 10 levels, 10 speed, 10 action, 10 puzzle (Or what ever it'd be classified as). It's good enough for me, plus there will be unlockable and downloadable levels too so that's 10+ speedy levels.

I didn't hear that, but I guess it sounds good. Then again, that means 40 levels per character... 120 levels total... That can't be individual levels can it? Though I could understand many crossing over, though I hope that the different playstyles provide enough of a uniqe run though because going through the same blown up red city three times may get dull, though if it's been in production for a while they could avoid level design with lots of levels like Emerald Coast... either way I want snow and casino night style levels

No, each character gets 10, which means 30 levels total, not counting secret levels and downloadable ones.

Music's back on the site, but no lyrics.
http://sonic.sega.jp/sonic/
Just alot of violin. ._.

This post has been edited by OSM on Sep 10 2006, 12:24 AM

Damn, that sucks, it's just a loop of the first part of the song. Oh well, maybe they're re-singing it or something so it's less cheesy. Anyway, I hope we'll see more of the town stages soon, apparent'y they're more in depth and bigger than the ones in Sonic Adventure (Thank God, because those were pretty small). I hope all 3 of them (I heard that there are 3 total town stages) are about as big, if not bigger than the HUB world of SMS.

holy **** the site is really messed now, hard to click on stuff and the bg music doesnt work. must be adding to it or something

This post has been edited by OSM on Sep 10 2006, 01:04 PM

I figured they just decided to use a faster loading loop rather then what I would guess is what plays during an intro, as I'd expect the final credits song to be longer, if it's not a different song ala Shadow the Hedgehog.

YES.