Gamespot’s Live Demonstration of Sonic Unleashed
Just in case you missed the actual live footage of Sonic Unleashed being played by Assistant Product Marketing Manager at SoA, Ken Balough and Executive Producer at Gamespot, Ryan Mac Donald, the video has now been made available for you viewing pleasure – All 25 minutes of it.
If you’ve been looking for some real gameplay of Sonic Unleashed, this may be the best thing you’ll see all of E3. Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Werehog… it’s all there folks, and in much better quality that we saw streaming live earlier. You can set up the quality of the video from the Menu in Gamespots viewer!
Thanks to iNAUDiBLE and Timmit for bringing this to our attention. And thanks to everyone else who kept reminding me while I was out!
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@ pirpuu agreed
that was the first stage of sonic unleashed
I see! So that’s how it works! Works good enough!
I would like a vitality system the most.
It is used already in this game,but I mean something else.
Here is what I thought up:
How more rings you have,the less damage you take,and you lose some rings.Rings heal you,and you heal automatically,but even faster with more rings.
However,it depends on what hit you.
Hitting a regular robot isn’t really an ,but a laser instantly kills you on lower rings counts.
You also lose more rings after a strong hit,and some rings just are destroyed,only a few shatter.
Just an example how the ring system could work in a more subtle way.
@KuroBit: You could go backwards in Sonic and the Secret rings, it was just really awkward. Also, you couldn’t see where you were going, so there was often the chance, that whilst going backward you’d run into something, like water, or an enemy you’d misssed, causing you to get hurt/die.
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I do like how the game is coming along, but I just hope that some of the other characters don’t invade too much. Other than that, I like how the Were-hog gameplay works.
Sega said it’s 99% Sonic…I really doubt other characters will be anything more than optional characters or short segment minigames.
Since when have any of the 2D Sonic games been difficult? I mean, they were hard because I was a kid back then and not very good at games. But when I played again recently…I find Crazy Gadget and Final Rush harder than Scrap Brain Zone. But that’s me. Bottomless pits are….what kills me.
I’m fine with the games as they are, I was just brainstorming anyway. Maybe some enemies should bring back automatic death, like getting crushed used to do?
I generally agree with Chaotic Fox here, so I won’t reiterate. Back to the game…we got the locations. If it’s 9 worlds, so far we know:
-Greece
-New York
-China
-Africa
What about other locations? It seems likely we’ll get something based on other regions on the planet. Maybe an artic level set in either of the poles? And I also except a space level.
Do you’ll think they’ll try to include a level from the seven world continents? I’d much rather have them not include Austrailian or South American levels, and get second levels from North America and Asia (Las Vegas and …Tokyo?)
the actual game will probably be a lot harder than the demo like it was in sonic 06
@Izzy: Oh… well the game still has Sonic Adventure style movement :P…
Also, anyone notice that sonic games somewhat started to go downhill right around when Mario stopped being Sonics rival? (And I mean Sega and Nintendo being rivals)
kurobit
i agree ;)
my friend said he didn’t exactly like the way the werehog looked in the first pic. of him but when he gets back and sees this he’ll change his mind.
So that covers up a few misunderstandings. Sounds exciting. It might even become as great as Sonic Rush Adventure.
like in sonic adventure they were going to add a hub or as i call it a world map…
too bad they didnt show that :(
I can’t wait to play Sonic Unleashed!
I am so excited!
The gameplay does look a lot like sonic adventure…
I just really hope Chaos will come back, as well as Crush40 doing the music = ( i really liked them in the sonic adventure series (live and learn was sonic’s theme in brawl, so theres a good chance)
But as people stated before, I want to see that hub world! Nintendo Power interview said that there was a free hub world that you can run around and talk to people… I want to see this!
Also, any word on multiplayer?
what are you ,10 ,if you would have played the old games youll see he always loses all his rings when hit@juaouad:
@william: too much 3d, sega again has failed
@william:
So 50% 2D and 50% 3D isn’t good enough for you? The attempt to make BOTH of those aspects of Sonic work together too weird for ya?
Despite all that we’ve been shown up to this point, you’re chalking it up as another failure before you and everybody else gets the change to play it?
You should be fail for jumping to conclusions. >:U
So far, CampSonic is the friendliest Sonic community…. probably the only decent one. However the angry people are starting to arrive.
@dog@bird.net: I don’t usually tolerate crap. If someone get’s too out of line, there won’t be warning, just a ban.
@David Leggett: that’s why i like this site the person in charge doesnt let people run their mouths like crazy it’s just too the point and if u dont have anything good to say and ur personality is rotted with swears and disrespect… well u wont be here very long..
whoa this looks really amazing and fun to play i cant wait till i get my hands on this!
@iNAUDiBLE: you tell em iNAUDiBLE!
-Greece
-New York
-China
-Africa
And High europe
SonicTeam talks about a snowboard stage i think @_@
@David Leggett:
Did you ban people yet?
Anyway,I like the casual feeling here,and that you can say whatever you want unless you become offending to people.
@william:
and william..
The 3d is used when it offers the best gameplay.
The loops will just be 2d again.
And the ring system is a bit outdated sometimes,sonic has become more complex last years,so just losing all rings is to simple.
You are pehaps worried about the wherehog,and to be honest,I am worried as well.But it is still in delevopment.Don’t go jumping to conclusions early. @william:
STOP MOVING YOUR HANDS SEGA GUY WEEEE GET IT!!!!!!!!! The game looks freakin awsome like a KH game with the heartess!!!! COOL!!!! the guy sucks i could beat that level easy!!!! I LOVE IT, now amy and werehog has to shown….. I WANT TO SEE IT!!!!!! NOWWWW!!!
Another reason I am buying this game is the story/cutscenes. I have a strange addiction with cutscenes. In fact, I’m going to watch some from SR:ZG right now…
I WAS WRONG. I GUESS HE STILL LOVES RINGS AS THE WOLF
@ Chaos Blast..
I love cutscenes and that plus the gameplay is making me get this game, i mean i know sega by cool cutscenes of the game, and i can’t live with a game that doesn’t have voice cutscenes not subtitles, thats why i want this game to see how jason gonna make himself look stupid this time!!!!
@ unleash the beast…
I understand what your saying about the ring….. why did he do that i think he was really pissed!!!! I hope he trys to attack his friends without knowing what he was doing, cause that be sooooooooo freakin awsome!!!!! IT’S THE HULK, RUNN FOR YOUR LIFE AND THEN a boss battle with TAILS,SHADOW,KNUCKLES,AND AMY!!!!! SWEET!!!! BUT THEY DON’T KNOW ITS SONIC!!!!! I LOVE YOU SEGA!!!
When Weresonic walks slow, he looks like those strongest-man-in-the-world type of things XD
Weresonic is BADASS.
@KuroBit: u can move backwords
I watch this video 3 times an hour.
okay. personally i think sega could improvie this game alot by takeing out some things and puting in some things
mostly for sonic gameplay
1.return the old ring syestem
2.add a co-op mode but improved unlike sonic06 splitscreen and xboxlive and actually add a story
3.make other playable characters. (such as tails knuckles shadow amy rouge and maybe team chaotix (i thought they were kickass )and im a fan of sliver so sliver but this is only my opinion
4.make sonics levels longer (because of speed) and have more enemys (it looks like you can just hold forward)
for werehog gameplay
1.add a few more combos
(thats it i dont have many i thought he was badass)
This is the coolest gameplay of Sonic the Werehog ever!:D
They need to ask if the game is going to be jacked up like sonic and the secret rings for wii. That game was so dumb, he ran by himself on a set path for him and all you do is tilt the wii remote left and right to make him move left and right, and to make him do a homing attack you had to shake the wii remote,and to make him walk backwards you had to tilt the wii remote backwards, he never turned around. All of that sucked.
@whapaaaaaaa: I heard SatBK is gunna be EXACT SAME THING
but dats just a rumor.
a dirty, dirty rumor lol
I know there’s no ” hedgehog energine” on Wii, but do you still got some feeling like ” WOW i’m goin fast!” ??
WOW! the wii version is gonna suck! i have a wii and not a ps3 or xbox…. wow im pissed, the wii version is being made by a different team!!!!! what the hell sega? you better be communicating alot cause what if the levels turn out to be WAY!! different.
is there mutiplay on psp & ps2
is shadow,tails,and knuckels in here
whats the diffrent betwwen robotnik an eggman
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i hope theres chao.. its been rumored. i really hope so i love chao that why i always play my sonic adventure 2 battle so much cause i love my chao’s!
cill dude tell mom to get ps2 so you dont have to get pissd asshole
This is the ultimate game!!!!!!!
Da Best
Wait a minute, the night-time music doesn’t sound completely fitting. Normally, when people play night-time stages, they hear intense music like the music you would hear in Resident Evil, killer7 and Trauma Center.
I know! I think another music composer from another company should be hired! Someone like Masafumi Takada (killer7 & No More Heroes), Tetsuya Shibata (Devil May Cry 3 & 4) or even better, the great Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater). That would be swell! Fancy hearing Shawn McPerson singing one of Sonic the Werehog’s theme???
i really really want this game but its taking so long 2 come out 24 days left!!! I cant w8 that long i want the game now!