GamesMaster Gives Sonic Unleashed “Most Wanted” Title
We had a few people submit this yesterday (both in comments and email), but it looks like ENVY16 from SSMB was the first to get their hands on the latest issue of GamesMaster. Nothing new jumps out at us, but something worth noting is that Sonic Unleashed definitely impressed the folks at GM.
How Much?
Well, enough for them to give it a rating of 5 on the Most Wanted Scale. Their only complaints about the game was the lack of multiplayer and online leaderboards (which I have a feeling may be more of an assumption the way they stated it). At any rate, if you’d like to read their impressions catch the scans below!
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Man this is awsome. I hope this game could be compared to SA2 or maybe SA1.
Hey admin have you also notice the whistling in the Werehog trailer, that it sounds like angel island in Sonic 3. I found out about this, a few months ago back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o55cdoKRBNk
To here it combined go to 1:38
PS. sorry for grammar
I pray that it is as good as SA and SA2, i love them
Looks like nearly every magazine is getting hyped about this game.
On a side note, a while back, ONM said Sonic Unleashed would appear in there August issue. (Even though it says September on the spine.) It’ll be the next issue, I’ll try and pick it up if I can to check when it comes out.
Sonic games have an amazing ability to gather an amazing amount of hype for some reason.
Even Sonic 06 and the early videos(trailer) looked so amazing. I remember seeing speedruns from Crisis City.
Sonic Unleashed… whether this game is good, or bad, it may sell well.
wow. 5/5 pretty sweet!
@okay: crisis city is my favourite because its one of the few where you actually get to run fast. But i didnt like the speedrun in it, jumping is a nightmare!
I never saw any pre-release trailers for sonic 06 (hadnt discovered the net) but i bet they looked great which gave viewers a false impression on the gameplay. But i just cant see this game being bad! it looks excellent!!!
‘endless possibilities’ was great!
@okay: Sonic games gather so much hype because there was a time when SEGA could blow us all away – which was back on Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure 2 – and everybody knows that they can do it again. They just don’t know when, so they gather their hopes up.
I’d consider most Sonic fans to be the best fans in the world because they’ll never give up hoping. But somehow, other people say the franchise is dead, Sonic is a fag, it’s Dr Robotnik and not Eggman, Shadow is a worthless emo who ruined the games because he just keeps whining and other crap.
One thing that I don’t understand about the article is that they’re criticising the Shadow the Hedgehog when they talk about realism gone wrong! Shadow wasn’t made to look real at all; it was made to exercise a new gameplay mechanic. I think they’re trying to say Sonic ‘06, but just don’t have the guts to mention that game anymore in case SEGA accuses them of connecting the two games.
hey that vitality meter for the werehog isnt like in prince of persia 2 is it. when the prince went bad you have to destroy monsters to get ‘vitality’ or else you die. I didnt like that much, it put the pressure on. But that sounds pretty much like the werehogs vitality.
p.s whats the sonic stomp mentioned in the article?
maybe…. at the final boss sonic could be a super werewolf or even hyper sonic!! woohoo!
Using the hedgehog engine, I’d like Sega to take 4 levels each from Sonic Adventure 1, 2, and Sonic 06 and release it as an Xbox Live Arcade/Playstation Network game.
Something like what recent Mario Kart games do.
Well, at least there Wii pics up there. But none of them are new -.-
@TailstheHedgehog:
Go watch the High Europe Trailer, and skip to 1:28. You’ll see Sonic perform a stomp then.
That last scan has an awesome picture!
This is my first post here so hello sonic fans!
@Sinister96: uggh please no superwerehog. That sounds aweful
hmmm i dunno a superwerehog does sound pretty cool
I my opinion the super werehog idea is really unoriginal and lazy.. it’s like giving every character in the games a super form.. just no.
@Chaos Blast: thankyou, I found it. Its like a quick way of dropping down to earth…like the bounce in sonic 06..except you dont bounce lol
@TailstheHedgehog: It’s gunna happen. Guaranteed.
SEGA is making Sonic U as a movie.
The next Sonic Adventure.
If they don’t have a Super Were-Sonic in sonic unleashed, it will definitely be in Sonic Unleashed 2.
and there WONT be a 2. Bottom Line.
In This Picture it says Sonic was created from A ROTTEN EGG AND RUNNING SHOES WDF?
ALSO In This Picture in the 29-Hit combo picture it says “Defence” instead of “Defense”
Not a very potent video game magazine lol
@TailstheHedgehog:
No Problem and That’s what I thought too, one of those moves that can shave seconds off your time.
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Reminds me of that time I was playing SRA, I was doing a timed mission, and I was really running out of time, so I blasted through the last part of the level and finished, with 43 MILLISECONDS left on the clock!
omg this game would be perfect if it had multiplayer!!!
@ shadow:
There were many references to multiplayer but Sega said Single Player experience only.
why…………….?
why the sega didnt put the hedgehog engine on wii and ps2?
what is the reason for that?
it would be so much realistic and gorgeous…….-.
@Chaos Blast: close one ;) ive been meaning to get that game for ages
@Nano:
Because the Wii and PS2 can’t handle the Hedgehog Engine. Where have you been?
@Michal Shipman:i take a vacation.only for a couple of days
by the way…………you are right the ps2 and wii cant handle hegehog engine so there is nothing they can do…….
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thhis inst about sonic unleashed but it is something i dindt know about
sonic CD
Well well well. Just when I thought Sonic Rush Adventure would be the best Sonic game so far, there’s a chance that Sonic Unleashed could temporarily knock it out of the spotlight. Lol even GameMaster says that the Werehog gameplay is similar to The Legend of Zelda. XD
Ahh, damn Nintendo and their lack of a hard drive for the Wii… :D
But seriously? 5/5? While I am happy about this, it seems a little too suspicious for me… Like, the Sonic Franchise is trying to come out of a horrible stage, then GameMaster here gives it a 5/5? I mean, 4/5 I could deal with, but I think that the perfect score might just add to the unnecessary hype it already has! *shot*… But whatever, I’m still getting this for the 360, so I guess I shouldn’t be complaining… XD
Though I am liking a lot of the things that they’ve shown already, I’m looking forward to high-speed antics with Sonic and down to earth platforming with the WereHog!
@Aregulardude: Personally, I don’t think SEGA will be able to redeem themselves (for lack of a better way of putting it) in just one title. The names “Sega” and “Sonic” were once very powerful names. Over the years, it seems to me that they’ve lost a lot of trust in their core-gamer market, and trust is much more easily lost than gained.
For me, and perhaps for GM, Sonic Unleashed is a step in the right direction again, and a step to earning some of our trust back in the company, and in the name Sonic. It may not put Sega back on its pedestal completely, but it’s still something a lot of us have been wanting for some time.
Isn’t were-sonic supposed to be Sonic with the negative energy of the chaos emeralds?
and if Super Sonic uses the positive energy, what happens when he use both? He will turn HYPER SONIC!!!
That would just complete the game for me!
think of a giant monster trapped at the center of the earth. If eggman went to all that trouble to release it, then it’s gotta be huge! like half the size of the earth. I bet at the end of the game, it comes out and you have a space battle as Hyper Sonic! Super Sonic is to slow to take that thing out. only Hyper Sonic can take out something as big as a planet!
hey Shadzter over at sonic stadium said that GamesMaster will have a review of the game in their october issue coming out August 27th and he said sonicstadium will also have a full unbiased review closer to release
and in the real Sonic franchise there is NO hyper sonic just supersonic who goes at the speed of light! thats 300,000 miles a second!
in any game, has super sonic gone the speed of light.
and what do you mean the REAL Sonic franchise?
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles WAS a real Sonic game.
sorry, I meant has Super Sonic ever gone the speed of light in any game.
cause you said supersonic would be too slow even thoughhe can go the speed of light
@TailstheHedgehog:
I have to agree. Super WereSonic is not a good idea.
@Spittingup: Super Sonic can go faster than normal Sonic, but nowhere near light speed.
Super Werehog could not be possible anyway. I think Sonic goes Werehog when he absorbs the negative power of the emeralds, and Super when he absorbs the positive. I think… Though he could absorb both at the same time, but that’s highly unlikely. Sonic can only tap into the positive energy. (He went dark in Sonic X because of the faulty chaos energy from the fake emeralds.)
@KCross: Defence is the same word, just an alternate spelling.
And to Eggy Origins, that was true in the Fleetway comic, which is only one sonic comic and NOT CANON. I wish publishers would stop treating it as such.
“DID YOU KNOW?
Sonic came about thanks to an accident involving the Chaos Emeralds, a pair of high-tech trainers, Dr Kintobor (later Robotnik) a treadmill and a rotten egg!”
Does that only applies to the UK Sonic comics when Sonic got his super speed and Robotnik turned evil?
@WOWZ: Not exactly.
Before Fleetway even used that origin, there was Disney Adventures: a magazine.
There, Sonic made his first appearance ever, even before his first game! That issue had a comic with Sonic which was a promo to the game that came out later.
Check this out!
http://archive.sonic-hq.net/newsite/comics/images/first.php
@Kev: Yes there is a such thing as hyper sonic, from sonic 3 and knuckles, I can’t believe that any sonic fan wouldn’t know that. And no, super sonic can NOT go the speed of light. In SA1 Tikal says that you have to turn into a bolt of lightning to hurt chaos, if that was true then in the 10 or so seconds it takes to get to perfect chaos you would have gone around the world 70 times. No offense but we all need a heaping helping of the truth sometimes
@Kev: Oh, and the speed of light is 300,000 KILOMETERS a second, and 183,000 miles a second look it up.
@Sonication: Heh, funny. I actually just approved that link in our User Submitted Links area :P
@Max: To extend on that, the speed of sound is 330 meters per second, or 761.6 miles per hour.
Super Sonic can travel at Mach 2 or 3. That is about twice or thrice the speed of sound itself.
@Sonication: Yep. Too bad sonic can’t go the speed of sound in the games like in the comics, Sonic has gotten kinda slow
@David Leggett:
What? You have?
@Max: I agree. Even though the Sonic Boost allows Sonic to go at 300 MPH, that is still not the speed of sound.
Well, this IS within the games limits.
@Sonication: Yeah, actually scheduled to go up in about 5 minutes.
@David Leggett: Cool!
BTW, I may submit another link that’s a video. Just to let you know.