Unleashed

It’s a bit late for me to be reporting this, but a few weeks ago, a brand new Sonic game was announced for the Wii and other systems. It’s called “Sonic Unleashed” and it’s due out this winter. All that’s known about this title is that it sports a unique gameplay they call the “hedgehog engine,” which smoothly transitions in between 3D and sidescroller gameplay and that it features a new side of Sonic we haven’t seen before. Watch this teaser to see what I mean:



Dang. That’s some crazy looking blue werewolf thing there. I wonder who it could be. Maybe it’s the result of Sonic having his DNA spliced together with that of Sulley from “Monsters Inc.” Or perhaps…Whoa, this is gnarly.



I got the above image from “The Sonic Factory.” The hulking figure in the background is Sonic in his new form in the game, being dubbed “Werehog” or “WereSonic.” So far, it looks crazy, awesome, and I’d like to know what new powers this new form has or what caused it to happen. Looks like it could be the old new-powers-contracted-from-machine-transformation deal again. But I would like to know what else the game has to offer. Are we going to be able to play as other characters in the series? Will we see a WereTails, a WereKnuckles or a WereShadow? Does Amy Rose, in her ongoing pursuit for Sonic’s heart, turn herself into WereAmy just to try and please him?

As you can see, there’s a lot of questions I have before I even consider buying this game as cool as it looks. I thought “Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games” was a cool idea, but then I thought it might be more interesting to have a battle royale between characters of both universes as opposed to have them compete in swimming events. I guess my hunch was right as the game apparently sucked. So I just guess I’ll have to wait on this one and hope that it turns out to be something more in line with what they did for the “Sonic Adventure” storylines, aka something better.

A full gameplay trailer can be seen here, courtesy of IGN: