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Archive Sonic Generations: Previews [Review Topic opening October 24]

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Welcome to the revamped Sonic Generations: Preview Topic!

This topic will serve as a hub for discussing, posting and archiving the previews, interviews and various Q&A's for this game. With so many pages circulating the debates this revamped OP will serve as an archival for the hot news of things to come.

Due to video limitations that are imposed in posts previews or videos that are on YouTube won't be posted unless the source site can be located. These previews will go down into the Video section instead.

This is an encompassing initiative so everything counts. If there's an old preview missing in this list however that has information worth having, drop me a PM and I'll add it.

Joystiq

As of October 17, the Preview Topic is no longer in commission. If members want to add more previews, PM them and they'll be added into the main archive. Look forward to the Review Topic, opening October 24th.

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Gamereactor.se confirmed that the writers of the game are the Colors writers.

Awesome! If I wasn't already, I am now Day 1.

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While Sonic's older iteration stuck with a fixed 2D camera, the younger version is more brazen, switching from first-person to 2D and exploring many in-betweens along the way (controlled by the game and not the player, notably).

Oh jeez now this is confusing.

He says "Sonic's older iteration", which could mean Classic (being older chronologically) or Modern (being more 'grown up' than his classic counterpart, but then says it's stuck on a fixed 2D plane, which means Classic, right? But THEN he says the 'younger version' (Classic), is more brazen, switching from first-person (don't you mean 3D?) to 2D.

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Oh yeah I should also mention;

Gamereactor.se confirmed that the writers of the game are the Colors writers.

hopefully it'll have a better sense of humor, and more mature jokes.

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Oh yeah I should also mention;

Gamereactor.se confirmed that the writers of the game are the Colors writers.

Awesome, but which one? The Wii or DS version?

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Joystiq can't make their mind up about which Sonic is which! Haha! I love that part about the mechanical fish chasing you though. Sounds pretty immense.

@ sonicfan1984: The Wii version obviously, that's why they've mentioned it. The DS script was nothing special, and was built from the Wii one.

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Though the skinnier, younger version of Sonic embraces speed and various camera angles (giving the impression of a deeper, more involved game), his version of Green Hill Zone felt more like an on-rails pinball machine. Skinny Sonic was tossed mercilessly around the stage with little inspiration from the Xbox controller, reminding me why I haven't been inclined towards Sonic titles in recent years. A handful of QTEs and scripted encounters helped to make this mode feel "bigger," but the actual interaction seemed distinctly scaled back to allow for cinematic events.

I'm rather worried by this. It sounds like Modern Sonic gameplay is going to have the same problems as before.

Oh yeah I should also mention;

Gamereactor.se confirmed that the writers of the game are the Colors writers.

I'm also worried by this. Hopefully this time they'll be targeting the game at everyone rather than just little children.

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"In [sonic the Hedgehog 4] Episode I, we didn't actually return to the old physics, and nor did we try to create something totally new," Iizuka says, "What we tried to do was respond to the voices we heard in the fans, and create something based on the feedback we were receiving from fans. On this occasion, with Sonic Generations, we've created a game with a totally different game and with completely different physics."

Different, but for classic 2D Sonic it's exactly the same – or, more accurately, it's exactly the same as you remember it. Sonic's movement seems much less stilted in Generations than it was in Sonic the Hedgehog 4, and gaining and maintaining momentum is a much more satisfying affair.

That's good to hear.

I'm rather worried by this. It sounds like Modern Sonic gameplay is going to have the same problems as before.

Automatic stuff has been there since 12 years. Did you really think it would change?

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as modern Sonic, I was playing a three-dimensional game, running, jumping air-dashing, building a boost meter and tricking in the air.

KOTAKU seems to imply that you'll have to work a bit harder to build boost this time around. It also vaguely mentions tricks, but I've heard that one before on past games, so I'll wait for some confirmation on that front before getting excited about a Rush - esc trick system.

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Looks like people completely forgot this screenshot:

SG_ghz_mo_11_med.jpg

This gives me hope of actual 3D platforming.

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Looks like people completely forgot this screenshot:

SG_ghz_mo_11_med.jpg

This gives me hope of actual 3D platforming.

There's not much there, but it's something. And it looks pretty. And lets not forget that Unleashed HD did have some 3D platforming. Jungle Joyride, anyone?

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Here's one thing I am curious about... Are the stages going to have the exact same layout, but Modern Sonic switches to 3D during certain points of the game, or does Modern Sonic get a completely different stage layout?

Either way, the transitional part we knew would be automated. Gamespot doesn't list all the same things that Joystiq did, though.

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Looks like people completely forgot this screenshot:

SG_ghz_mo_11_med.jpg

This gives me hope of actual 3D platforming.

It looks like it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. Considering how Unleashed and Colors were, it is very possible that on that picture you can only go on the platform with the spring but not on the little platforms above it, and that you're still confined in a narrow corridor.

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Sonic Generations will be out later this year for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A Sega rep told me there's no Wii version because the game is fully HD. Odd. Sonic's been a star on Wii. They must have something else planned... (Sonic as a Vitality Sensor launch game? Make it happen!)

Well now we know why Wii won't be getting this game. Hmmm but what does Sega have up their sleeves? We all know Sega is gonna do something special for the wii (M&S does not count).

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Looks like people completely forgot this screenshot:

SG_ghz_mo_11_med.jpg

This gives me hope of actual 3D platforming.

While it does look like a hope spot, what most of us(?) are hoping for is more space along the...... um...... *checks wikipedia* Y axis?

Wider paths rather than the usual corridor fest that Unleashed suffered from.

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Here's one thing I am curious about... Are the stages going to have the exact same layout, but Modern Sonic switches to 3D during certain points of the game, or does Modern Sonic get a completely different stage layout?

Either way, the transitional part we knew would be automated. Gamespot doesn't list all the same things that Joystiq did, though.

No, from the sounds and looks of it C.Sonic and M.Sonic will have their own stage completely. Makes me wonder how they do the bosses though...

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According to every preview, there were more than one path through each stage, usually involving a bottom, middle, and top path type of deal like the old games.

Also, it sounds like what their doing is that they are making it that both Sonic's have different stages entirely, set in the same location, but their way through it is different. It's not just "He's got 3D and he

s got 2D" but the levels themselves are different and depending who you select you take their version of the level. Classic Sonic jumps, runs, spin dashes, and rolls while Modern Sonic uses homing attacks, the third dimension, boosting, etc.

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While it does look like a hope spot, what most of us(?) are hoping for is more space along the...... um...... *checks wikipedia* Y axis?

Wider paths rather than the usual corridor fest that Unleashed suffered from.

There is something above that though. It might be the case that you fall down into that area if you ain't good enough.

See the path cutting across the top there, that could be a different route.

Also, making a game wide isn't as easy as it seems, I mean they've got to have a cut-off point somewhere, and making things too wide could either cause people to not know where to go, or could result in just a vast empty space. Both of those things are not good.

It would be nice to see that in the future, but right now, the streamlined approach works just fine.

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A handful of QTEs and scripted encounters helped to make this mode feel "bigger," but the actual interaction seemed distinctly scaled back to allow for cinematic events.

Noooooooooooooooo! Hope they're not like Unleashed's. :(

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Man that Joystiq preview's got me worried for modern Sonic's gameplay.

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Noooooooooooooooo! Hope they're not like Unleashed's. :(

Meh, most of 'em were fine. Just as long as they aren't Eggmanland calibre bullshit. It would be just fine for staying on x route, or ascending to a higher level or something.

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Man that Joystiq preview's got me worried for modern Sonic's gameplay.

Stay cautious, but I don't think there's too much to worry about based just on that. We are talking about the first zone, after all; of course it's going to be easy and focus mostly on looking pretty, especially in a game where the player has to handle two different-ish playstyles at once.

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He said "recent" Sonic games,as in the general consensus on how 3d Sonic games typically play, not Unleashed specifically.

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Oh yeah I should also mention;

Gamereactor.se confirmed that the writers of the game are the Colors writers.

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You have made my day. Colors had some low points, but overall, it was superb after the series plot quality plummeted during the Heroes-Sonic 06 era.

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