Gamespot was lucky enough to interview Sega of America team producer Patrick Rileyk during Sega’s Gamer’s Day on May 14th, and Patrick was kind enough to share a few things we haven’t heard before.
Since the first screenshots for Sonic Unleashed were revealed, there was a lot of speculation as to where some of the locations were in the game. Some suggested that one of the levels looked a lot like Greece, which was later confirmed to be true by Sega. In the interview, Patrick reveals that the level is actually the very first daytime level in the game, and is more specifically Mykonos, Greece.
During the first few stages (such as Mykonos and a level based on Europe — which is confirmed to be about the 4th level), the player will spend time learning Sonic’s new abilities, such as the the Sonic Drift and Quick Step. Throughout the game, as Sonic gains experience, he will be able to learn new abilities as in previous titles. All stages are said to be based off real world locations.
There have been other concerns in the Sonic community in regards to the new Ring Energy Meter that shows in the HUD of several Unleashed screenshots. According to Patrick, ring energy is filled by collecting rings, but the rate at which you collect rings also plays a role in how fast the meter is filled. Using ring energy will allow Sonic to “engage another new mechanic called Sonic Boost“, which will essentially send Sonic soaring at speeds up to 300mph.
“It’s kind of a turbo for Sonic“. Yeah… Kind of.
It was reiterated in the interview that Sonic Unleashed is about Sonic. There will be times that you play as other characters throughout the game, but about 95% of the time, Sonic will take the stage.
Chao Gardens, Night Stages, Weresonic… What say you Patrick?
“We’re not talking about that yet…”
“Um, uh, we’ll be talking about that at a later date…“
“Closer to E3…“
YES. That’s not too long a wait folks. Remember, the Summit gathers between July 15-17th this year!
Thanks for the heads up Mike!
Portugal should be a level in sonic unleashed! Or at least Brasil
if only there was a way to know if Canada will be a level in sonic unleashed T^T we are important too!!
What the heck?
That is A LOT of stuff.
I’m going to assume that is all Chinese for
“Sonic Unleashed will be AWESOME”
and call it a day. (laugh out loud)
Justam is epical win.. adn the chao garden thing were-sonic in the garden = fail/hax. But the night and day raising would be awesome and instead of hero/dark chao atribute maybe they could add in something else. Maybe give em elements:
( fire,water,wind,light,darkness) i think they should expand on the chao raising thing, and keep it old school. I played SADx again recently and all i did was hate on the graphics and MOUTH MOVEMENT! but then i realised from what justam said that its fast and they dont have that moving boxes and opening dorrs **** i hate. then i compared it to SA2 and its way better. amazing story if you replay it and walkthrough it, where as SA2 is all about new things which failed ( it was fun and cool with shadows story and not having to use a bunch of characters in their own story like Big and Amy) but you get what I mean… i think. any ways Sonic unleashed will be awesome especially with the continent thing going on. cant wait i luv the rush system. I hope super sonic is playable. and I want shadow to appear say something and then go away. Tails and Knuckles to do barely anything: like move a box and then go back to cut scenes, amy to hold were-sonic, get hurt, he looks at her with confused eyes, then hops away. He feels bad, isolates himself by running into a near-by volcano/lava infested place.
( fire level anyone). and as Were-sonic id love a different path after you change, i dont wanna be doing loops with that thing O_o. and how’s he soppose to clear a level when 90% of the time you wanna be boosting. different paths with jumping and stuf would be great, could be a new strategy for time attack. any ways i thinx thats all i got. omg i just had the greatest idea. ‘ At the beginning of game you get a limited super sonic use maybe fly around or hit eggman a few times… then at the end of game you gain control of supersonic again but with some of the powers of a were-hog… maybe heightened senses to see incoming attacks from eggman, or something.. i still want him palyable in levels though.) SEGA there is no point in not including super sonic in stages if so many people are asking for it.. It’s not like the majority is saying no and you’ll lose money.) and even if that was the case people would still buy it because super sonic would be an option. Not like Sonic the hedgehog 2 where 1 jump = uncontrollable for 50 seconds(wasn’t that bad, but wasn’t epic.) Epic = 9:30 time… super sonic transformation…reached at 9:58… thank you Casinopolis for that dream come true. Anyways i need teh shut up now. =_=. night pplz
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Can’t wait for the game, the trailers and screenshots look awsome so far, I just don’t understand why there were baloons in the new trailer for “high europe”…what is there perpose in sonic unleashed??
weresonic in a chao garden… okay but they gotta put chao world in it i mean that was so awsome except how do u improve the skills are they gonna put animals or what?
welll this sweet game combined with chao garden is gonna sell!
@flash:
Yeah, if Sonic wants to get mugged and lose rings!
@ stereo:
I think a were-Sonic would scare the chao, no?
Keep on going for it, SEGA! Oh, and I’m all for delaying the game for better development, too. Thanks, justam!
If they did choose to add chao gardens, it would probably be like SA1, in which you had to find the gardens from the overworld. if so, how would you influence the chao’s dark/light allignment? there’s not a dark/hero story… perhaps just with fruit, like SA1? or, instead of dark/light, it could be night/day.
weresonic in a chao garden…hmm
95% sonic… based on the nature of the game so far, 95% you’ll be REQUIRED to beat a level as sonic. maybe any level could be cleared as any character afterward. no treasure hunting or shooting levels.