New Sonic Game

[Demon_Skeith]

SEGA has announced Sonic Boom, a fresh branch of the Sonic universe that includes a video game, toys and a new CG animated television series.

Sonic Boom will introduce redesigned versions of the popular hedgehog and his companions. To get your first glimpse at their new looks, check out the debut trailer for the Sonic Boom video game below, coming exclusively to Wii U and 3DS.

Starring Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy Rose, the Sonic Boom game will serve as a prequel to the TV series and will focus on collaborative gameplay. The third title in the exclusive Nintendo-Sega partnership following Sonic: Lost World and Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, it'll feature all the speed you'd expect from a Sonic game, alongside elements of exploration, combat and "a new Enerbeam tether mechanic".

The TV series will debut on Cartoon Network during the 2014/2015 season and will be made up of 52 episodes, each 11 minutes long. As you'd expect, a range of accompanying toys and merchandise will be produced featuring the new-look characters.

Update: Sonic Boom will not be released in Japan, and the Japanese Sonic Team are working on titles in parallel with the new western developers.

While Sonic Boom and its revamped characters are being designed by Big Red Button and Sanzaru for Wii U and 3DS respectively, veteran Sonic Team member Takashi Iizuka confirmed to Polygon that there were other titles in development.

It's been confirmed that the redesigned characters of Boom are not going to replace the classic images of the characters but will rather exist in parallel, and that the scarves on the characters are because veteran Naughty Dog developers are involved in the project.

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[ToCool74]

Not liking the Sonic Heroes vibe I'm getting from it (which was one of my least favorite sonic games).

But other than that it appears that Sonic has regained his speed since Lost World, and I actually like the redesign of Knuckles and Amy, this looks like a fun ride to me. ^_^

The level design definitely looks like its inspired by the Ratchet and Clank series to me, I hear that some of the team worked on Ratchet and Clank in the past which would explain this.

Hate that its exclusive to the Wii though, but I saw a picture posted by Sega that had a confirmed sonic game for 2015 for Xbox One,Wii U, and PS4, hopefully its the long awaited Sonic Adventure 3.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm not liking their designs at all, I think it's time for the sonic series to be put to bed for good.

 

[ToCool74]

I'm not liking their designs at all, I think it's time for the sonic series to be put to bed for good.

Come on now man, this is a "side game" set in another universe, its ok to experiment a bit with things in my opinion.

They have already said the original series will still be making games, this series is just something they are trying with a North American audience, I hear Japan isn't even getting this game.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

If Japan isn't getting the game then what does that say about it? Not to mention they completely messed up knuckles.

 

[ToCool74]

If Japan isn't getting the game then what does that say about it?

Remember the part where I said, "This series is something they are trying with a North American Audience and is a experiment"?
That is why its not coming out for Japan, its being geared towards the Western audience rather than Eastern, something Sega has been up front about since it was revealed.

Its reflects nothing on the quality of the game.

Sega doesn't even have Sonic Team making this, now they have a American team at the helm with the Sonic team only supervising the project.