I’ve seen a ton of you talking about it in the comments, so it’s definitely no secret at this point, but there is a brand new Sonic Unleashed Werehog video available for the public. This video being revealed only days before E3 is certainly reason to believe we might see something very special come SEGA’s private showing.
I’m still on the road at this point, so I’ll leave the speculation up to you for now (just try to keep things clean, flame-free, and for heavens sake let’s work on our grammar folks). The full video can be seen after the jump:
@DarkChaos: Sounds great! I only have Wii!
I love SU! And some more serious thing isn’t wrong.
FIRST COMMENT
…sweet trailer!(so far the best) cant wait for E3 ^-^
FIRST TO COMMENT
Well I noticed that it the werehog comes on a full moon but wasn’t it destroyed in SA2. So shouldn’t werehog should come out only on full moon and not when it is dark. Also this speculate that Japan could be a level or that NY could be night level.
oops i got second. I type slow.
Note:in my comment I meant Tokyo Japan due to there is alot of kanji in some parts of the level. Also I think it would be tight weresonic throwing cars, jumping buildings, and causing rampage in the night.
That.Was.Creepy!
Just when you think there is no news whatsoever, BAM. SEGA DOES THIS SORT OF THING. (do it more often, please!)
The mixture of live action footage with the CG seems to cement that Sonic’s Earth is a version of our Earth. Man, this is…awesome, I don’t know what to say…
BRING ON E3!
TSSZ says that the fandom has had an overwhelming negative reaction to the trailer!
…if you count the Sonic Retro and SonicEatsRings forums as the entire fandom.
(sorry for ranting so much about that, it’s just that such generalizing gets on my neeeeeerves. What does Weresonic have in common with the Cloverfield monster other than that camera in the video? Is Weresonic several feet tall? Does it have crab parasites? Will Hud be in Sonic Unleashed despite having half of his body chewed off by the Cloverfield monster? …nah. No, he won’t.)
“(just try to keep things clean, flame-free, and for heavens sake let’s work on our grammar folks)”
*puts on grammar police hat*
… *takes off grammar police hat seeing as she has no control over people’s action* Seriously, people, spell right. It makes you look smart.
Admin I think your news thing (i dont know what it is called) seems to be broken cause it skipped the Poll Results and the Wii Rumor.
*notices error on previous post*
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*puts on dunce hat and sits in the corner*
You notice that the trailer has some kind of…exact timeline for the events? Maybe that might come into play during the actual game? I honestly doubt it, but it might be cool…
TSSZ News has a new poll asking how the new trailer makes you feel about the game…and from what I’ve seen, the progress shows that as many people are excited as they are concerned. You can access the poll at the front page at tssznews.com
…They also have high quality and low quality versions of the trailer for download.
Also, check out this cover version of the High Europe music using only guitars!
@Sonicman: Hm, I didn’t really notice that, but sometimes when I go to use it…all the headlines are jambled on top of each other…it’s weird. I’m using Firefox, so I suppose that has something to do with it?
@Sonicman: nah, I only have it show featured stories. The other posts still show up below the scroller.
Still on the road. Its a long drive, but I might get home at a reasonable time tonight. Big thanks to the 20 plus people who sent me a heads up of the trailer, and even more of you who mentioned it here. Just got to check my email, and got swamped with our community letting me know just after posting this, Haha.
Will be around most of the day! First time in a while!
@iNAUDiBLE: the hi and low res versions are available on sega’s PR server as well. I haven’t gotten to take a good look around elsewhere yet… Getting onto a laptop real soon.
@David Leggett: Welcome back.
Yeah, that is where TSSZ News got them from too.
It’s crazy, ain’t it? Also, they say that a gaming magazine got another unintended peek at something…at Amy Rose, supposedly in a “playable” form. Admittedly, they have no clue whether they saw it in a minigame or actually in-game…
Hashimoto confirms what we already know, that the characters are “mostly” in the minigames.
…”mostly” is defined as “for the greatest part, for the most part, as a rule” along with other definitions. I believe that it might be a lapse in speech on Hashimoto’s part, he might speak English purty nice, but there’s still some lapses here and there. He uses…a lot of ambiguous terms.
Link here
…personally I’m doubting the information since it also says that the game is going to be called “Sonic World Adventure” in Japan. While it wouldn’t be the first time in recent memory that a Sonic game would have two different names depending on region (Zero Gravity/Shooting Star Story), SEGA of Europe confirmed that the name was an early development title, NOT the actual title for the game a long time ago. Heck, even Hashimoto confirmed it. So, doubt the source until we can get some scans…or get E3 footage and info, whichever comes first.
Link here
I’ve watched the trailer 4 times:
1) wtf? fake?
2)Creepy
3)Funny
4)Oh no, what if the werehog sucks?
Yup, my thoughts on it xD
seems like everything is going well
that werewolf thing looks like reality even if it is fake.
i better like this.
SEGA DO YOUR THING!!!!!
The Image at 1:08, Is pure awesomeness. Heck, Look at the fangs on him! O__O Hurry up, E3! I don’t care if you’re in 3 days, come now!
Is it just me, or do those “hairs” look like blue glowsticks? LOL! >-<
I am ecstatic right now! This new trailer has made my week! *picks up iNAUDiBLE’s grammar police hat and puts it on* HA! I am the Grammar Police! Fear me!
@Hannah the Echidna:
I thought It looked like christmas tree tinsel! XD
I eam the gramear opisiton.
NOea grules jere plz!
I wonder what e3 will bring..
To bad I am away during it..
@iNAUDiBLE: I have a couple theories to the “timeline” in the trailer. My first guess was that it had to do with news events related to Sonic Unleashed. For example, the Sonic Unleashed leaks were discovered right around March 13th. April 1st is only a few day difference from the day the first were-hog teaser came out. My other theory is much simplier and probably the correct one of the two. It’s probably just in one month increments for full moons, giving a hint at the werewolf-ness of it. The onlt problem with this is that if they did intend this, then they weren’t acurate with the full moons at all, being that May 20th was the full moon. Actually, May 3rd was the new moon, I believe.
Oy! I think I’m looking into this too much… -_-’
@Hannah the Echidna: Well, it could be completely random, but you could also be onto something I suppose. It would be interesting to see some sort of Sonic Unleashed based Alternate Reality Game of sorts, but this seems a little too – - market-esque to be anything of that nature.
My guess is that we’ll see a lot more of the Werehog at E3
Just a guess of course.
lol that´s the coolest trailer I´ve ever seen xD
Was the moon not destroyed on SA2B or is this an alternate time line where it never happend because that way Shadow would not be in this game. Just my thoughts.
The moon may be full because I believe that in Sonic X Eggman repaired the moon by making the destroyed part into machinery. Also, it’s a game, it could be that Sega just decided to ignore that little bit of detail or maybe this isn’t the same planet that had the moon get destroyed on. Could be anything really.
@DarkChaos: Oh thanks for explaning that to me.
@Hannah the Echidna: They look…sort of like hedgehog spines? Blue ones? Hmm…
That hat looks nice on ya, miss~<3
Interesting theory as well…I always thought that Sonic Team isn’t sticking to the full moon for Sonic’s transformations, meaning that he would transform every night…hoo boy. o___o
@Cman: The moon wasn’t destroyed, it just got a big chuck of it took out of it. The moon appeared perfectly intact in Shadow’s game, and seeing how that game affects the main Sonic continuity in one way or another, I assume that Sonic Unleashed will have an intact moon.
…I also assume that they managed to fix the moon in one way or another. If they can have fully functioning space stations with planet destroying cannons 50 years ago in their Earth, while our Earth only just started the space race in the ’50s, then they can fix the freakin’ moon!
@David Leggett: Sonic…ARG?
*BIG SQUEAL* Admittedly, if that was the plan, they would’ve executed that a bit better than they did
…I personally would’ve loved an ARG for Shadow’s game. Classified G.U.N. files for everyone~!
Wait, E3 is on the 14th now, right? ….haaaa.
I guess the moon turned a bit because of the blast,rendering the destroyed part invisible.
O.well
We all know sega is just forgetting this little detail.
hmmm… sonic will began kill humans (maybe)
thats it, I’m gettin’ this game.
Now I’m scared to sleep at night. >.>;
I wish that was real!
But of course that’s just me. I’m really excited about this game, I can’t wait for it to come out. Even though the trailer was fake it looked so real! 
I thought the moon was supposed to be half gone from the Eclipse Cannon blasting part of it to bits…they must of fixed it or something. Anyway, awesome trailer. It made my day, I can’t wait to see more of the werehog 
Um . . . this looks like a fake. First off when they find ‘blue hair’, they’re glowsticks, simple glowsticks. But towards the end it looked more real, i dont know what to think of this video. Anyone else think it’s a fake?
@WiiFP: It’s real. It’s on SEGA’s PR server. Both in Hi res and Low res.
Also, it was posted at one of the SEGA blogs.
@iNAUDiBLE: Scans are coming
One of our readers just sent ‘em to me. I’m currently traveling at 65MPH down the highway, and downloading at a whoppin 25KB/sec, so it’ll be a little longer before you see them. I’ll probably have a full writeup and the scans posted by the end of the day!
That beginning part looked fake, which kind of swayed me a bit, but towards the end it seemed to get more believable, so I’m sticking with this as real in my opinion!
I wouldn’t want to meet him in a dark alleyway, that’s for sure!
Lawl the blue hair looked like glow sticks or plastic. xD But wow, you can really see Weresonic fitting into the real world. really amazing trailer; keep it up SEGA!
@David Leggett: WoW that was really exciting i showed my older brother it he was soooo excited so am i and the scans are they the PS2 UK scans i sent you? if it was i hope i get a campsonic pin or a tshirt most favorable a t-shirt cause i could advertise wherever i go.
No, no, you know what I want to see in this game?
A game that changes from day and night depending on the internal clock of the console, kinda like Animal Crossing! (if you don’t know what that game is, look it up) But instead of it being, “oh, it’s just night time!” you suddenly change into Were-Sonic once the clock hits a certain time, and certain pathways close off and new ones open up to you, making the game experience SO much more interesting!
…That’s my opinion at least. Yes, no, maybe? >_>
This will be THE BEST GAME EVER!
@Aregulardude: yeah that would be really cool i’d like it alot if they did it in the overworld hubs cause they said that in the real levels day and night time are based on the level not an everchanging world but they didnt say you couldnt do that in the overworld that’s a pretty nice idea
guys E3 starts on Monday!!!
Cool! and HAHA!
@David Leggett: Hey, I’d like to ask. Are you planning on attending E3? Or do you know a different website that will have info on it?
@Link451: he said that when SEGA is holding the closed doors Sonic Unleashed invitational only event that he has an inside man on Ripten who will be attending E3 and the Sonic Unleashed showing and he will report info to him so we’ll be very up to date on sonic news but also check Ripten.com because all the info will be posted there first.
O.O … …
Ohh! I can´t wait for the E3, this game will be so awesome! =D
Folks, you should all go check out our write-up on gamesTM article about Sonic Unleashed. I think it holds the answers to lots of your questions, and probably addresses a few things you haven’t thought about yet!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! BLUE HAIR!
lol this video was absolutely freaking hilarious!
It may just be me, but this Trailer is giving me good vibes. For one, I look back on SEGA’s past, and I remember, the last time we had a “real” commercial with real people was, DING! SA2:B.
Where they had the blue hedgehog and the black hedgehog with the two scientists or animalist or whatever they were xD
Secondly, the usage of life footage may be a just a teasing way of saying “The graphics are going to be THIS frickin’ good!”.
The only thing that worries me is that, I can’t seem to find a single scene where Sonic is shown (were-sonic that is).
I see someone managed to SS one part where you can see him, but other than that, I have to question whether SEGA really is done designing Were-Sonic or not. Whether they even plan on keeping him in the game or not.
Regardless of this, My theory on gameplay is going to remain as such for now. There will be TWO acts per “World”. One during the day, and one at night. At least, this is what I’m hoping for xD
@Lyon the Groundhog: Oh I believe SEGA has designed him, they’re just milking us as much as possible. They have a tendancy of doing that.
That was sweet! Were-Sonic looks faster than we first thought. (To me anyway)
First of all I love night-time its my favorite time, and ever since Sonic Adventure I wanted a Sonic game with a day and night system my dream of a day and night system was almost completed with Sonic Next Gen (that game had so many disappointments) but it was cut. I just hope it doesn’t turn night according to the story but according to the time of day.
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww!!!
that was a pretty good video, yet it sucked all the same… sorta…
anyway i hope you guys missed me cause im back! also the graphics might not be what we hoped for on the wii, i havent seen any blue glow of sonics speed anywhere on the wii images, although i think sega has realized the error of their ways on satsr, they need sonics fur to be lighter blue or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what are your thoughts guys (im talking about wii version, although i do suspect the africa one to be wii, just a little)
PS
i am a wii fan and think 360s and ps3s are over rated.
PSS
which continent or island does David Legget live in anyway, personnaly i live on bainbridge island (north west USA)
by the way there is not an internal clock day night system from what i read on the SU mini site available from sega . com srry guys =(
call me X for short save some typing… =P
@iNAUDiBLE:
Sorry for my grammar error. I was just rushing when I made the comment.
PS. I’m actually a guy.
@David Leggett:
Thanks for answering my question admin.
PS. You rock, I didn’t know much about Sonic Unleashed back in March until I found your site.
@Link451: While I will not be personally attending, a contact of mine who IS attending, and who WAS invited to the private showing of Unleashed will be doing a writeup for Camp Sonic.
We may have some help from the folks at Ripten as well.
@Xeternalstar: We operate on Camp Sonic Time (sometimes better known as EST time) from the South East USA in Atlanta, GA.
@Hannah the Echidna:
Mostly, my concern is that some people are still speculating whether it’s actually Sonic, or a different character.
It brings a couple theories to mind, like the one I mentioned before where acts are split into day and night.
Another possibility would be choosing whether you go at night or day, which would affect who you played as.
But the main concern is also something that has happened in the archie comics in the past. When Super Sonic and Sonic broke apart, I wonder if the same possibility could be happening here. If Were-Sonic and Sonic are co-existing at the same time.
That could definitely lead to a deep and crazy storyline, not that I doubt this game’s plot isn’t already crazy xD
what day will sonic unleashed be discussed in E3. I’ve probably missed something but I just went on their calendar and couldnt find it. Obviously its there but could someone tell me when?
Thanks heaps if you can help.
King Kong meets WereSonic…
FIGHT TO THE DEATH!
i love the trailer. i think it’s a bit funny too. but they said he was just turning into the werehog in the night hours so which is it? full moon or night hours? i’m hoping it’s night hours because if it was just full moon then we wouldn’t play as the were-hog much during the game.
@Lyon the Groundhog: First off, official SEGA calls Sonic a Were-hog, since they were the ones who named the first teaser “Were-hog teaser trailer”. Second, I believe you mean the UK Sonic the Comic when you talk about Super Sonic bneing separate from Sonic. Lastly, the game’s official catsh phrase is: “When the sun goes down, a new adventure begins.” This and the above mentioned teaser name AND Official Nintendo Magazine specifically calling him a werewolf give me more than enough reason to believe that Sonic and his beastly alter-ego are one and the same.
I’mm unsure where I read it from but they said Wolf Sonic will play alot like Donkey Kong he uses his large arms to swing from place to place but his legs are very short so he can’t run that fast but he has really quick reflexes
I imagine him as a beast that moves quickly kinda rapid like a and very scary at night i would think that Weresonic is really fierce i mean look at those fangs he looks like he’s ready to kill something for food (in a good way not negatively) man i cant wait!!!
looks cool, hope the game is better though
@Hannah the Echidna:
You’re probably right. I just don’t really ever believe things until they come out, that way I can look at the possibility of many views.
I mean, maybe SEGA wants us to think that they’re both the same character, so they can keep the secret well hidden.
But I also tend to think WAY too much on the subject, and the fact that it probably IS sonic is almost 100% assured.
And yes I was referring when, I think it was like bad emeralds or misuse of the emeralds that lead to the two being split apart. It was also one heck of a battle xD
THAT WAS SO AWESOME! lol i liked the vid and it made me laugh at its comments! i SO cant wait for the game AND for E3!
@Kev: …Kill something in a good way? Not that made me giggle!
@Lyon the Groundhog: I don’t think SEGA is cruel enough to give us false information just to keep a plot secret under wraps…
…and I’m a big fan of the comic series. I believe Sonic was overexposed to the emeralds or something. ^_^
i havn’t posted for awhile but that was the coolest sonic commercial i have seen in the history of history and also it kinda looked like mephiles at some points it was strange
Lol, SEGA, not CRUEL? obviously, we’ve over-looked the past 3-4 games they’ve pumped out for the home consoles to make such a statement xDD
I joke, I actually enjoyed most of the games pumped out, even though their faults have been there. But, I wouldn’t put it past them, I mean, it’s a huge part of the game itself, it’s not a small tid bit like “Silver isn’t in the game” or “Amy Rose is killed by Were-sonic” (HEY, I can dream!)
As far as the comic goes
it was over-exposure? lol, sounds even more familiar.
xD
That was a pretty sweet trailer for sonic unleashed the whole were-hog thig is so gonna work
Oh **** thats awsome, a little fake yet freaky
NOTE: when it shows the footage of the werehog jumping the highway PAUSE right after the first time it shows the footage, and you could see part of his legs!
also the “traces of blue hair” look like a plastic blue string, or a straw,
and lastly, holy sh*t! when i saw the face with the beddy eyes and huge fangs it scared the sh*t out of me. TRY HARD TO PAUSE AT THAT PIC, IT WILL SCARE THE SH*T OUT OF YOU
nice work
PS: igotta stop saying sh*t
awesome i can’t wait for thursday
dude that **** was amazing now it just proof and insperation that sonic is really real.i was right all along.ha my friends were wrong.im happy
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D i love sonic
nice why is it like real cities in real life
Wow. Sega must have done research on forensic science, because SEGA has successfully taken “murder mysteries” to the next level. It’s like “Sonic the Hedgehog Meets Resident Evil!” Only without zombies! You know, there should be another motto: “Super Sonic is gone on holiday…and Were-Sonic is here to stay…” It would be kick-*** if Were-Sonic said that line himself.
Man! This is what the trailers I wanted to look like were I live! It doesn’t look like hair though,It looks like glow sticks.
@Imprena Yeah. I guess that was the only disadvantage of the trailer.
That was creepy! It makes me afraid of were-sonic big time.
OOOEEEEOOOOOH! (@.@) The X-Files.
@Dart: Ha ha, that’s actually a good idea. Agent Mulder tracking down Werehog Sonic. XD. I can’t wait to see what Agent Scully will say about this. She always tries to rationalise cases like this. Or maybe Sega can put Werehog Sonic and a semi-final boss in another “The House of the Dead?”
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@ Matthew: What happens there?
@Golden~Hedgy: A really really short peek of Sonic the Werehog appears. It’s a low-quality screenshot which is later seen in the intro for Sonic Unleashed.
@Mystery the Hedgehog: Speaking of The House of the Dead, a new spinoff rail-gun shooter called “The House of the Dead EX” is coming soon! I officially vote for Sonic the Werehog to cameo appear as a semi-final boss in that game! (Even though he’s not a zombie)
at the end messed up because they already used that ending a little bit.When he smashed it said “holiday 20o8″ really it should be him flip the ring about 3 times,he looks at it,it turns night he becomes into werehog,and then he smashed the ring but it didn’t say “holiday 20o8″ it just showed a ring. so??????? wut up with that. and also i’m getting the game on the xbox360. go sega !!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS SOOOOOO COOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant WAIT TIL IT COMES OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VIDEO GAME!
ya so werid how the ring did tat
hedgy well it show a full form of werehog
guys you got to beliee me put one time at 10.30 at moon i look up at it and i was goin inside and i saw someting it was a bear so i sandid like a shassu and it went in the woods so i run as fast as i coud put i herd a huge rarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr so laod it wock up the baby so i got a pcar of the ting and moon down i wock up an lookd at the picr and….it….WAS…WERE….HOG! NOW IM SO SCARD