New Sonic Unleashed Pre-E3 Trailer
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:
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FIRST COMMENT :D…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. :D
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 :P
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! :D
@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. :D
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! :D 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! :D 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 :D
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)