Sonic's success is about more than a questionable redesign.
We can all agree that Sonic and his buddies have too many wraps around their hands and feet in the upcoming Sonic Boom. But when The Blunder Busters looked closer, there are some strong indicators--beyond gameplay, beyond 'roided-out Knuckles--that Sonic Boom is SEGA's greatest effort to revitalize the franchise in a long while. Here's why it might work.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
Sega had such a turbulent existence from the mid-90s to when they dropped out of console manufacturing entirely in 2001, it’s understandable if you’ve never heard of the Genesis Nomad.
You all say you are excited about a new Sonic game and then when it is actually released you are back hating it again. The same will happen with Sonic Boom, you will be all positive at first and then you will be back to bashing it again.
There has never been anything really wrong with newer Sonic games, it's just that so many people are stuck in the past and get all caught up in nostalgia. If these newer Sonic games weren't actually called Sonic then these games would have nothing but positive reviews.
Generations was tons of fun and (just my opinion deal with it)Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is one of the best kart racers out there. But yes there have been some flops but it all hasn't been doom and gloom for the franchise.
The only problem I have with the new look is how Knuckles looks, he just looks plain weird. I think the other characters look fine though.
Somebody better check Knuckles for PED's. We dont want him to drag gaming into the Steroid Scandals that plague other sports.
Haven't felt good about a Sonic game in a long time. This looks good though, real good. Hope it can bring back the nostalgia of my childhood where all I did was play sonic.
Like the character revamps as well.