It's cruel - it looks like Sonic, and when you fire up the website it actually sounds like Sonic too.

But deep down you know; They WILL fuck it up. This is Sega.

They're embarassing. People have to beg them for years to release the few gems they've somehow managed to come out with in the past few years (After Burner Climax for example). The rest of the time they're too busy inflicting humiliating shit like this on us;

http://www.sega.co.uk/games/tournament-of-legends/

FFS it looks like the hideous garbage Midway would have forced onto the world back in 1995!

I think its a cynical marketing ploy... the last throw of the dice.

Why call it Sonic 4? What bother pretending its got anything to do with anything to do with Sonic the Hedgehog... its like a marketeers dream, maximum coverage, minimal effort.

The fact that its episodic and they haven't the confidence to release a boxed game just stinks. Although downloadable games are fine.. its just a medium after all.

In terms of game lineage having Sonic on his own in the fourth game doesn't make sense. a "New Sonic the Hedgehog" as a concept is more interesting, a New reboot, people are open to that.. but because Sega Sammy have their head jammed so far up their arses, they can't see it.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER SONIC 3D!!>>!>>!?!?!??!

I loved Sonic 1 and really enjoyed racing my mate at Sonic 2...but there it ended. Maybe I tried Sonic 3, but can't really remember anything about that one. Not sure I'm that bothered about going back to this, the video looked like a whack version of what was done like 100 years ago...

I'm not a huge sonic fan, but I dabbled a fair bit in the Sonic Jam collection and I think that the 3 megadrive sonic games are for the most part good.

I quite enjoyed Sonic Adventure on the DC too oh and Sonic R (that was underrated). Secret Rings wasn't too bad, but a bit of a grind to get anywhere.

I know people keep bleating on about just doing Sonic 1 or 2 but with better graphics and different levels and to an extent they right. In my opinion though the core gameplay is too dataed to appeal to a wide audience these days.

You'd have to mix it up a little bid (not guns or any of that shit), but something like Sonic + Witch Time, would be mint . Just bring back lightspeed dash as an evade mechanic and job done no?

Saur tells me that Sonic CD is where the game happened.

I am most interested to try that as a consequence.

I can see the concept working, somehow.

I always remember being perfectly happy to trundle through Zone 1 on the Master System over and over again.

Sonic CD I've always held up as THE Sonic game. I loved everything about it, you really had to get to know each and every stage as gaining enough speed to time travel became very tricky later. You had to make a good future in every stage, collect enough rings to access the bonus stage, then ensure you complete the bonus stage as missing a Chaos Emerald was disasterous!

The mechanics were simple, but there was just enough going on to tighten it all up just enough so that there's a real sense of urgency without it being too much to handle. Plus it blatantly had the best music of the series!*

* - but not the US version, they changed the audio ¬_¬

All my favourite Sonic games were the ones Sonic Team had no hand in!

Sonic CD
Segasonic
Sonic The Fighters

I've got Sonic CD on one of those PS2 Sonic Collections. Perhaps I should bust it out. Think it has fighters on there too. Segasonic always looked incredible. Only played it once in the arcade iirc.

Anyone played Knuckles Chaotix? That game looks bonkers with the elastic connection between the player characters. Would like to give that one a go sometime.

I gonna hunt down Sonic Gems for the cube, so I can play on the Wii.

It has US soundtrack though...

Dont.

Emulate it if need be but play it with the original soundtrack, the vibe is too perfect.

Japanese version of Sonic Gems here, including correct Sonic CD soundtrack, and Bare Knuckle.

I win!

I think for one of the Xbox/PS2 versions you'd get the right soundtrack if your system was set to Japanese language.

There is a leaked video from an early build knocking about. Looks a bit like Sonic Rush.

Sounds like it is being developed by Dimps too, so presumably partly designed and project managed by Sonic Team as before. I predict it will be entirely ok, but not spectacular.

This is what I don't get. Sonic Advance is really the actual successor to all that 16 bit 2d jam right... is it because its on a portable it doesn't count?

What about those Sonic Advance games? Do they not count?

(Everyone forgets Super Mario Land too, bloody airplanes and submarines)

Its like Star Wars Extended Universe out there in portable land.

Sonic Advance is actually alright iirc. They introduced a neat mid-air dash thingy, which you had to use to extend Sonic's jump range. Other than that it was pretty much business as usual.

I've been dabbling with the GG/SMS versions of Sonic recently (via Gearoid on the G1). First impressions are it's a very solid game that has enough ideas of its own to be distinct from the Megadrive version. Pretty nippy too considering the hardware.

My first Sonic experience was SMS Sonic, seemed fine and the upgrade to the Mega Drive one didn't seem worth it... I couldn't see the USP at the time, (more colours?)

I did get foaming at the mouth excited for Sonic 2 on the MD, but could never afford an MD... I was most interested in the Sonic and Tails split screen idea, which was then also seen in games like Unicycles and Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures.

I had a big thing for co-op games back in the day, anything to stop being beaten (up) by my brothers.

Its never really worked though, the split screen coop platformer... maybe thats down to those I was co-oping

More speed.