Tag Archives: Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

According to this CrispyGamer piece, BioWare DS RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood has gone gold.

The game hits on September 30. Please be good. More through the link.

See them over at Gamershell. Five videos of a Sonic RPG on DS developed by BioWare: what more could you want on a Friday night?

Go watch.

By Mike Bowden

BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, its hedgehog-related DS RPG, will provide a pretty healthy amount of play-time, if this Gamespot interview‘s to be believed.

“For the full single-player gameplay experience, you can expect about 20–25 hours,” said art director Joel MacMillan.

Yep, that means there’s multiplayer.

“There will be some multiplayer ‘trading’ to take advantage of,” MacMillan added.

Game’s out this year. Thanks, MaxConsole.

Sega has announced its official E3 lineup. Loads of stuff here. See below.

• MadWorld (Wii – March 2009)
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (DS – Fall 2008)
• Sonic Unleashed (360, PS3, Wii, PS2 – Holiday 2008)
• Alpha Protocol (360, PS3, PC – February 2009)
• Samba De Amigo (Wii – September 2008)
• Bayonetta (360, PS3 – 2009)
• Bleach: Dark Souls (DS – Fall 2008)
• Dinosaur King (DS – Fall 2008)
• Empire: Total War (PC – February 2009)
• Golden Axe: Beast Rider (360, PS3 – September 2008)
• Stormrise (360, PS3, PC – 2009)
• Space Siege (PC – August 2008)
• Valkyria Chronicles (PS3 – November 2008)
• Yakuza 2 (PS2 – September 9, 2008)

By Mike Bowden

Couple of movies after the link of a documentary on DS RPG Sonic Chronicles development at BioWare. Footage of the game itself is halfway through the second bit, apparently. Thanks, GoNintendo.

More »

Couple of playtests just popped up of BioWare’s Sonic RPG, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. There’s one on 1up and one on MTV. Plenty of detail there for those interested, and new screens showing what appears to be a fairly standard team-based FF-esque console RPG combat system.

They’re both taken from the US Nintendo Media Summit. Go see.

Update: GoNintendo’s got one too.

1up’s gone live with a heap of impressions from last week’s Nintendo Media Summit in the US. They did it first, so they get the links. Look: LostWinds!

• FFCC: My Life as a King
• Guitar Hero: On Tour
• LostWinds
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
• Samba de Amigo
• Boom Blox

Update: Here’s Eurogamer’s stuff. So that’s what Pop is.

Update 2: New movies, courtesy of IGN:

• Wii Rock Band
• World of Goo
• LostWinds
• Pop
• Wrap-up video from the Summit

Update: First impressions of BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood just went up.

Some new screens of Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood here. Please don’t be rubbish. The Bioware RPG, one of the most unlikely games in history, releases this year.

Bioware bosses Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have been talking in public about DS RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Big the Cat is about to get a boost, apparently.

“I think maybe the challenge there, if people are not as excited about having the friends, is making them worthwhile, making them a good part of the game,” said Zeschuk. “They’re not going to be gimmicky. They’re not going to be side things. It is actually a core part of the gameplay mechanic. It’s actually, we think, going to revitalize the love of the Sonic friends, especially Big the Cat.”

Good gravy. Not only is Big being thrust back into the limelight, but Bioware is also focusing on “speed” as a Sonic ability.

“We’re really excited with how you combine narrative flow in a way that’s appropriate to the DS platform and aimed at little younger audience — but really, all ages,” said Muzyka. “We’re trying to make a game that is going to appeal to a lot of people. But also to use the best things about the Sonic IP, like speed. It is really about speed for Sonic, but for the other characters it’s about other things. They have their own unique abilities.”

Either really, really awesome, or really, really broken. We’re staying positive. It’s releasing this year.

Sega’s just sent out a press release saying that Bioware DS RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is going to release in 2008. Sega couldn’t be more specific on the date saying, “We’re not going to be able to say any more than that, to be honest.”

The game’s a bit of an enigma at the moment, but Sonic people being Sonic people it’s sure to sell well. More on this soon.

We missed this last night because we were blinded by the Sega Bass Fishing release date. BioWare RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is coming out this year in Europe. Woot. The info was on the same release list as the Bass Fishing info, so we know we’ve got our priorities sorted.