First Sonic Unleashed review from British newspaper
Posted by Hudson. Filed under Europe, Hudson, Microsoft Xbox 360, News, Sonic. Tagged with Sonic Unleashed.
In a strange, strange, extraordinarily strange reversal of coverage trends, the first Sonic Unleashed review to hit the ‘net comes to us from Tom Higgins at Telegraph.co.uk- the Web site for one of Britain’s national newspapers, The Daily Telegraph.
That’s right. A newspaper beat 1up, IGN, and all the other games journalism giants to the punch. What’s more, it’s a review of the Sonic Team-developed Xbox 360 version that’s not due for release until Nov. 28 in Europe.
Most impressive of all? It’s well organized, insightful and gives plenty of context to demonstrate that Mr. Higgins knows damn well what he’s talking about.
So go on, give it a read! As you might expect, it sounds like Sonic Team still can’t leave a good core concept well enough alone.
[via Telegraph.co.uk]
Site News: Our forums are back… sort of
Posted by Graham. Filed under Chris, G, George, Hudson, James, Nathan, News. Tagged with Site Talk.
Apologies are in order to everyone.
As many of you know, our forums had been down for the last few days. Unfortunately, it was completely out of our hands, as there was a hardware failure in the servers where the forums are stored.
For the more perceptive of you, you will have noticed that our forums are back up. Our resident forums “housekeeper,” TOGGI3, has the forums up and running again, but unfortunately, he was unable to recover the posts that had been made.
Sega still won’t let people actually play NiGHTS:JoD. Plus possible release date
Posted by Hudson. Filed under Europe, Hudson, News, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.
More impressions today of NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, courtesy of Gamespot at Leipzig. Well, visual impressions, anyway, as the press didn’t even get to play it.
In this case, someone else played it while the game journalists watched and wrote what they thought about the game that some other guy played. Despite this added layer of separation, some new details squeaked their way through, such as the following about gameplay while the presenter chased a bird in-game:
In his pursuit of the bird, our presenter darted through rings and hit speed boosts to bring himself into range, then leapt on the beast’s back and stole its keys. From there, he had to fly to the end of the racecourse and deposit his plunder for a grade.
The revelation in all of this is that the targets NiGHTS has to reach are moving, and apparently don’t require a set number of collectible blue orbs to take their keys (JoD’s equivalent of colored ideya orbs from the first game).
Aside from these new impressions, is anyone else worried that Sega won’t let people play the game this late in development? It’s slated for an as-of-yet unspecified Q4 release*, and if you haven’t noticed October is fast approaching. In any case, stick around Sega Nerds - we promise to let you know as soon as someone actually plays the game.
*Jeuxfrance.com is reporting that Nights will be available for purchase on November 23, 2007 in Europe. Exciting! (link translated via Babelfish)
[from Gamespot via 4 color rebellion, Jeuxfrance.com]
Sonic Rush Adventure gameplay movie
Posted by Hudson. Filed under Hudson, News, Nintendo DS. Tagged with Sonic Rush.
Fresh from Gamespot UK comes a video of Sonic Adventure Rush’s gameplay. And lo, it’s, uh, another Sonic Rush game. Notable changes present in this video, from the previous Sonic Rush, include, less detailed backgrounds, and Sonic’s complete and total inability to shut the hell up. Enjoy!
[via Gamespot UK]
A little more about NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams
Posted by Hudson. Filed under Hudson, News, Nintendo Wii. Tagged with NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Unreleased.
IGN has translated some of the recent NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams Famitsu scans and has come up with a little something something to help tide fans over until E3, when the game will hopefully have a little more exposure . The article reveals a little bit about the two dreamers that will be fighting alongside (inside?) NiGHTS, including the fact that they have parents.
William, known amongst friends as just Will, is an excellent student who also excels at soccer. He starts having nightmares when his father gets sent far away for work.
Helen has been learning violin from her mother since childhood. However, as she grows older, she’s started separating from both her violin and mother. She begins to see nightmares as a result of this seperation.
You know in the last game we never even saw Claris or Elliot’s parents, and those two overcame Wizeman and his horde of terrifying nightmaren just fine. I guess kids are getting soft these days, what with their violins and life preservers.
[Original- IGN, via the GHZ, Thanks for the tip, Aki-at]
