3DS Version: NA Nov. 22 EU Nov. 25; The Sonic Generations Mega Thread of Infinite Information

[Arpegius]

Game Title: Sonic Generations | Sonic Generations:White Time in Space (Jp) | Sonic Generations: Blue Adventures (Jp 3DS)
Release Date: Console/PC- November 4th 2011 (UK) | November 1st 2011 (NA) | November 3rd 2011 (AU)
3DS- November 25th 2011 (UK) | November 2011 22nd (NA) | November 2011 (AU)
Platform: Nintendo 3DS | Playstation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC
Publisher/Developer: SEGA Sonic Team | SEGA Sonic Team & Dimps (3DS)
Price: (PS3/Xbox 360) £49.99 | $49.99 (3DS) £39.99 | $39.99

Console Covers:

European/Australian Collector's Editions:

Handheld Cover:

PS3/Xbox 360/PC version
Today is Sonic’s Birthday.
A party is about to start, full of treats Sonic’s friends prepared.
Or so it was supposed to…
A mysterious monster attacks out of the blue,
Sonic’s friends are absorbed into a vortex,
and Sonic is left helpless.
Nothing but a white world in front of his eyes…
What is this place? Where are his friends?
Everything remaining a mystery,
an adventure that crosses both space and time starts!

3DS version
Sonic is invited to a birthday party Tails organized.
With a chili-dog in hand, Sonic is in a good mood. However…
A mysterious monster attacks out of the blue
Tails is absorbed into a vortex
and Sonic is left helpless.
Nothing but a white world in front of his eyes…
What is this place? Where is Tails?
Everything remaining a mystery,
an adventure that crosses both space and time starts!

The ultimate celebration of 20 Years of Sonic gaming, Sonic Generations delivers the definitive experience for Sonic fans new and old.
Sonic’s universe is thrown into chaos when a mysterious new power comes into force, creating ‘time holes’ which take Sonic and his friends back in time. Whilst there, Sonic runs into some very familiar characters from his past including a younger version of himself! Now they must team up to defeat their enemies, save their friends, and find out who is behind this diabolical deed.
Key Features:

• Twice the Fun - Play as both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic in the ultimate Sonic experience. Master the moves of each character as they race through each environment on their own designed built track.
• The Best Bits Just Got Better - Iconic environments from gaming history come to life in beautiful HD for the ultimate Sonic adventure, each revisited, recreated and re-imagined with stunning results.
• All New Experience - Play some of your gaming’s most iconic environments in a whole new way with famous Sonic stages presented in stunning new stereoscopic 3D.
• Unlock New Adventures - Once you complete each level and ‘free’ Sonic’s captured friends, you’ll get to go back and take on more challenges with them at your side.
• Infamous Bosses and Rivals - Take on some of the most notorious characters from Sonic’s past as you fight for ultimate supremacy.
• Master Your Moves - Master Classic Sonics famous spin-dash attack and utilise Modern Sonic’s ‘Boost’ as you complete all new tracks.

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Both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic have been confirmed by SEGA as the only playable characters in the main story arc. Otherwise for both Generation's Co-Op mission mode and cutscenes this includes appearances by:

• Classic Sonic
• Modern Sonic
• Miles "Tails" Prower
• Amy Rose
• Knuckles the Echidna
• Cream the Rabbit
• Rouge the Bat
• Espio the Chameleon
• Charmy Bee
• Vector the Crocodile
• Blaze the Cat

Note: The 3DS version will only have Sonic friends "who are integral to the story"

• Classic Metal Sonic, Stardust Speedway (Sonic CD)
• Death Egg Robot, Death Egg (Sonic the Hedgehog 2)
• Perfect Chaos, Station Square (Sonic Adventure)
• Shadow the Hedgehog, Final Rush (Sonic Adventure 2)
• Silver the Hedgehog, Crisis City (Sonic the Hedgehog 2006)
• Egg Dragoon, Eggmanland (Sonic Unleashed)
• Time Eater, TBA (Sonic Generations)

3DS Bosses

• Big Arm, Launch Base (Sonic 3)
• Metal Sonic, Casino Night (Sonic 2)
• Shadow the Hedgehog, Radical Highway (Sonic Adventure 2)
• Time Eater, TBA (Sonic Generations)

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The stages featured in Sonic Generations will be separated in segments of three eras.

Classic (Genesis), Dreamcast (Including Sonic Heroes) and Modern (Sonic '06, Unleashed, Colors).

So far SEGA has confirmed the following list of stages.

Console

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3DS

Classic Era

• Green Hill (Sonic 1)
• Casino Night (Sonic 2)
• Mushroom Hill (Sonic 3 & Knuckles)

Dreamcast Era

• Emerald Coast (Sonic Adventure)
• Radical Highway (Sonic Adventure 2)

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All New Content

With new and exclusive environments for the Nintendo 3DS, including an un-lockable ‘special stage’. Each includes two tracks – one for Classic Sonic and one for Modern Sonic - designed to showcase each Sonics’ unique features.

2 Player Versus mode
Take on your friends and earn valuable status points.

Street Pass
Collect new content and unlock bonus material, increasing variety, interaction and replayability.

* The Nintendo 3DS version is being co-developed by Sonic Team and Dimps.

* The director of the 3DS version is Tetsu Katano, who directed Sonic and the Black Knight.

* 2D side-scrolling gameplay for both Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic.

* Momentum based gameplay and platforming are fully featured in the Classic Sonic gameplay.

* Modern Sonic plays a lot like the Sonic Rush games and Nintendo DS version of Sonic Colours.

* Nintendo 3DS version will have exclusive stages and boss stages.

* Green Hill Zone will be the only shared stage in both the HD console version and Nintendo 3DS version.

* Casino Night Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is confirmed for the Nintendo 3DS version.

* Story has some differences between the console and Nintendo 3DS versions, but will be fundamentally the same.

* Console version will have many characters, but the Nintendo 3DS version will only feature the ones who are integral to the story.

* Sonic the Hedgehog 3‘s Launch Base Zone ‘Big Arm’ boss fight is in the game, which suggests that stage is also in the game.
* Classic Eggman appears in the above mentioned boss.

* Exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS version are challenges that you can unlock via StreetPass or Play Coins.

* The game also features an exclusive two-player race mode via local wireless connection.

* Modern Sonic stages take advantage of the 3D feature more than the Classic Sonic stages. An example shown and detailed is a part in the Green Hill Zone where Modern Sonic smashes through the bottom of a giant totem pole. The camera then moves to the front of Sonic and lets you see the rest of the pole collapse behind Sonic as he escapes.

* The 3D depth is also highlighted when Modern Sonic occasionally moves between the foreground and the background.

* Jun Senoue and his music team are working on the music for the game.

* Nintendo Power thinks the handful of tracks they’ve heard so far are “fantastic”.

* Special Stages will return to the 3DS version while the Console version will have an alternative method of obtaining them. The Special Stages play style will be similar to that of Sonic Heroes. The player will need to race to earn the Chaos Emerald using the help of speed boosters while avoiding the mind traps.

SEGA has released further info on Sonic Generations' Spot Pass features and thanks to Andriasang we have the low down on what we should expect on release.

Sega lists two activities for Spot Pass: exchanging profile cards and exchanging missions.

For the profile cards, you can record details about how long you've been playing the Sonic series, and also list your favorite amongst Sonic's shitty friends. The card also includes your play record for the 3DS title so others can see how far you've advanced.

Sega says that by exchanging your profile card with lots of people through Spot Pass transfers, your card will be updated in various ways.

For the mission exchange component, the game includes 100 missions, different from the main story missions, which can be unlocked through Spot Pass (can also be bought with game coins).
When you do a Spot Pass exchange with another player, that player appears in your Spot Pass log. Select the player's name, and you'll see that you've received one mission that the player has cleared.

Examples of missions include Revenge, where you must defeat as a certain number of enemies as possible, and Special Trial, where gopher-like enemies appear in Act 1 of Mushroom Hill Zone.

 

[Arpegius]

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-As of August 6-

Original Cam footage
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Updated Onscreen Footage
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-As of August 16-

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-As of August 17-

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-As of August 20-

Better Quality Mushroom Hill Zone Gameplay Vid
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New Improved Big Arm Music
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-As of September 14-
Sky Sanctuary Debut
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TGS 3DS Trailer
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-As of September 16-

"Randolph Ramsay sits down with producer Takashi Iizuka, director Hiroshi Miyamoto and sound director Jun Senoue at TGS 2011 to talk about creating time paradoxes in Sonic Generations!"

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-As of September 26-
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-As of October 5th-

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-As of October 5th-

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-As of October 14th-

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Hub World
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Sky Sanctuary: Classic
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Sky Sanctuary: Modern
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Seaside Hill: Classic
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Seaside Hill: Modern
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-As of October 16th-

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[Arpegius]

-As of August 17-

Mushroom Hill Zone for the 3DS: Act 1 Spring (Classic)

Act 2 Autumn (Modern)

-As of August 25-

Emerald Coast (Sonic Adventure) Casino Night Zone (Sonic The Hedgehog 2)

-As of September 7-

-As of September 12th-
Manga Scan of both Classic and Modern Acts for Casino Night- Thanks to Woun of the Sonic Stadium forums!

-As of September 13th-

Our glimpse of both Sonic's first meeting through time and space. This is where the fun begins!

The famous final battle from Sonic 2's Death Egg Zone. Looks like the devs decided to mix things up with some added platforms. I wonder if we'll go hardcore and fight with no rings, ala classic style. *looks at screen* Nope! Guess not, lol.

Sonic Adventure 2's Space Colony Ark rival battle. Sonic vs. Shadow, yet again!

Finally! A look at what Planet Wisp would have appeared as if Sonic Colors went multi-platform on the PS3 or Xbox 360. Glorious!

Now for the 3DS screens. Even though we've seen Casino Night Zone a few times in the past, at least this time if you check out the second screen you can catch a Metal Sonic appearance. Looks like we're going to race him on both the console and 3DS versions!

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Speed Highway (Sonic Adventure)

Radical Highway (Sonic Adventure 2)

-As of October 11th -

I added this Seaside Hill screen just for kicks to show the new modified cart from Sonic Heroes. Looks very Legoish to me, hahaha.

I hope everyone finds this thread useful. As time goes by I will update with the latest info and media. Please let me know what you think! Also fill free to post anything new and I'll make sure to add it to the main post. Thanks!

 

[NintenDan]

Thank you Arpegius for all this great information! This looks like Sonic's gonna be awwwweeeeesooommme! And I barely play Sonic, but this has convinced me it will be pretty worthwhile, heh.

 

[Arpegius]

Thank you Arpegius for all this great information! This looks like Sonic's gonna be awwwweeeeesooommme! And I barely play Sonic, but this has convinced me it will be pretty worthwhile, heh.

Awesome! Glad to have you on board.

Oh, and you're very welcome!

 

[YokaiNeko]

woooooot sonic in san franisco goooooooooooo!!! >-< i love that video epp im near san franisco ahh to much info -dashes-

 

[Arpegius]

woooooot sonic in san franisco goooooooooooo!!! >-< i love that video epp im near san franisco ahh to much info -dashes-

It's looking real good. Station Square is looking even more like 'Frisco than it did in Adventure 2. So much influence since SEGA is based in San Fran. I would love to visit the city and SEGA soon.

 

[YokaiNeko]

o-o arpergius want to visit san franisco >-> hmm -idea-

 

[Arpegius]

Idea? What's on your mind, eh?

 

[Spyci26]

This game looks pretty dang amazing. I am getting this on my PS3 for sure! If the 3DS version gets good ratings, I may grab it as well.

 

[Arpegius]

Update: August 6th

New gameplay added the Video section. This time we get a glimpse of the second zone playable in Generations, Chemical Plant Zone. It's off cam footage but you can see plenty of both Classic and Modern gameplay demonstrated in the zone. As a bonus you have some more City Escape gameplay as well.

The following video has some good info on the plot and over all feel of Generations. Also anyone who played/bought Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 will be happy to hear that Episode 2 is in the works! You'll see some concept art and a glimpse of the title screen featuring both Sonic and Tails ala Sonic 2. Also, it looks like Amy Rose is tagging along for the ride. Will we see a Sonic CD reunion? *I sure hope so!*

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08tUvC4q5oU[/media]

 

[TheUltimateKoopa]

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[Arpegius]

Thanks I was away from the computer and was just about to post the same vid. I'll add it to the Video section.

 

[Arpegius]

Update: August 8th

Hey folks, Arpegius here with another update. Anyone in the U.S who missed out on E3 or the Sonic Boom event will have the opportunity to try out Sonic Generations and Mario & Sonic at the London Olympic Games at your nearest participating mall. Check the listing to see if you can find a mall near you:

I'll keep on the look out and report back if there are any similar events planned outside the U.S.

Also based on the last entry on the list, it looks like Generations is still on track for a November/December release. Can't wait!

Until next time!

 

[Yoshi64Mario]

Thanks for this information! I kinda don't wanna watch the videos - they could wreck my thoughts of what the game will look like.

I'm just glad Tails is in there (he'd better be these days) and Metal Sonic was actually a surprise.

 

[Arpegius]

Update: August 12th


Sonic The Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 info maybe headed our way based on what Sega West CEO Mike Hayes has to say. This could be given to us as soon as Gamescom or may spread out towards the Tokyo Game Show. Either way it's refreshing to hear some long needed news for Sonic 4. It has been almost a year since the 1st episode has been released and another episode, especially with Metal Sonic hinted, would be great.

http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/11/sonic-4-episode-2-info-coming-very-soon-says-sega-west-boss/

 

[Zaphire/Shelke]

seeeeggaaa -giggle- yaya another sonic the hegdehog 4.2 n-n look like it going to be awesome. also i cant wait for sonic event in my area im going to take pic woot. and if i do see sonic i will video tape a brawl of next level hug on him or next level superb sonic lol.

 

[Arpegius]

Update: August 16th

New trailer added to the Video section. SEGA has released a new trailer titled, Two Sonics, featuring more glimpse of stages such as Seaside Hill, Chemical Plant, and Roof Top Run. Not only that, you can catch a quick peek of both Modern and Classic Tails towards the end. Also check out Classic Robotnik's mech. Looks familiar doesn't it?

 

[Arpegius]

Update: August 17th


Added new 3DS screenshots to the Screenshot section.

Looks like we're in for a real treat 3DS owners! SEGA has revealed Mushroom Hill Zone from the classic Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Check out the screens above and marvel over our first glimpse of Floating/Angel Island.

 

[Link 70222]

I thought Sega said that only handheld stages besides Green Hill were to be in the 3DS version. So far we only got stages from console games. I'm starting to think they lied.