Sega Trademarks New Sonic Title

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The next Sonic game will be called Sonic Unleashed. Give yourself a moment to make an obligatory joke about it being time to put him back on a leash. Now carry on. 

Even though there are no details whatsoever to go on, forum-dwellers have kicked up the whole “will they, won’t they” debate about whether Sega will turn back the clock and create another 2D blur. As much as I’d like that to be true, I doubt it. 

The fact is that Sonic sells, whatever form he comes in and however annoying the cast he comes packaged with. I just hope it goes to Wii – I have suspicions following Sega’s recent defence of Wii as a serious console. Sonic and the Secret Rings was just so much better than Sonic The Hedgehog 2006 on PS3 and 360.

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  • http://www.savetheinternet.com/ DavidGX

    Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good. Please be good.

  • shajir

    I can clearly understand why DavidGX is worried… Sega has not given a good sonic game for sometime now…

  • Throe

    I’m not entirely sure it’s possible to make a decent Sonic game in the same thread as the originals without making it 2D. I’m all for someone trying to make a great 3D Sonic game, but it’s going to be an enormous challenge. I wouldn’t mind playing through the Sonic story line with an RPG. It worked with Super Mario RPG, why not Sonic? Or they could always break the mold and go in some totally new direction with it. Maybe they could take lessons from the people who made the last few Metroid games. Those came out pretty well, and Samus has a ball form that was implemented excellently.