Wed, Sep 09, 2009 | 07:26 BST
Sega to release 2D, HD Sonic in 2010
Sega associate brand manager, Ken Balough, has confirmed to Gamespot that a new Sonic game is in development – currently branded Project Needlemouse – that will feature 2D, HD graphics. There’s a teaser trailer after the break – it’s out next year.
The game’s concept is a response to “old-school Sonic fans” who “have long asked to see Sonic return to a more 2D style of gameplay,” said the staffer.
“Speed returns in an all new 2D adventure built from the ground up,” says the movie.
Amazing. It had better be.
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Tags: Ken Balough, Project Needlemouse
12 comments
#1
Lutz
09/09/09, 8:45 am
Oh yes. Finally!
#2
Blerk
09/09/09, 8:52 am
I wonder how they’ll fuck it up this time?
#3
SticKboy
09/09/09, 11:26 am
This image has never been more appropriate
#4
Prof Power Glove
09/09/09, 12:56 pm
That’s nice.
Let’s see if they approach it as they do with most updates, i.e. so it ticks every box to ensure it fits in with the current gen design wave:
a) Badly constructed co-op mode.
b) Re-painted graphics by A-level grade artists.
c) Completable without losing a single life.
d) Online leaderboards which are a bastard to check (see XBLA Outrun for details).
#5
cachucha
09/09/09, 1:05 pm
took them 2 consoles gens to realize this
#6
Dr.Ghettoblaster
09/09/09, 2:47 pm
It also better be a downloadable title for $15 or less.
#7
Michael O'Connor
09/09/09, 5:53 pm
That silhouette looks like the image from the first game’s start screen ( http://www.consoleclassix.com/info_img/Sonic_The_Hedgehog_GEN_ScreenShot1.jpg ) so I can only assume that this is going to be a HD remake of the original game.
Lets hope it’s just not a flat out graphical upgrade, and that the evolve the gameplay to boot… just without werehogs or other gimmicky ideas.
This could be cool. Can’t wait.
#8
Gekidami
09/09/09, 5:57 pm
Stop wasting money on crap Sega and make Shenmue 3.
#9
Hero of Canton
09/09/09, 6:09 pm
“New” 3D adventure “built from the ground up” certainly doesn’t suggest a remake. I think it’s just going to be a return to old-school Sonic dashy-leapy goodness.
Fingers crossed, anyway.
#10
Michael O'Connor
09/09/09, 7:00 pm
I think you mean 2D.
It could very much be a remake while still evolving the concept, much in the same way Bionic Commando: Rearmed was a remake but was structurally entirely different to the original.
#11
angelobrs
09/09/09, 7:43 pm
I think it’s a great idea, but I agree (and fear) that SEGA sometimes really likes to screw things up… I guess we’ll just have to wait and hope that they don’t.
#12
SunKing
09/09/09, 8:44 pm
That’s a great teaser, regardless of how good the actual game turns out to be.