Posts Tagged Sonic

Thanks Budls & Tristan for the pics

Everyones favorite blue hedgehog is back, facing down his old nemesis, Dr. Robotnik. This time Dr. Robotnik has a new surprise in store...

It seems that Dr. Robotnik has uncovered an abandoned military experiment, one that has yeilded what promises to be the ultimate weapon! He only has to force his way past the robot guards and unlock the weapon - a black hedgehog named Shadow, who can utilise the energy of the Chaos Emeralds to increase his speed to warp capabilities. Fighting alongside Robotnik and Shadow is a bat named Rouge. But just who is leading who in this motley group of villians remains to be seen...

Many questions remain to be answered: who is Maria, the girl who helped to raise Shadow from infancy? Where is the Professor, who designed Shadow to be the ultimate life form? What is Rouges ulterior motive?

The fate of the planet is in the hands of Sonic and his friends; will it be peace on Earth, or Earth in pieces?"

This page truly is something worth to look at. It shows so much more information than the Sonicteam page, all about the backgrounds of the characters (Rouge has a crush on Knuckles ;>) To the map screen which you select levels from. Also it shows:

Kart Racing!'

Not much longer to go now, can't wait! The page also includes screensavers, wallpaper, a Timeline, a new large competition, and many other great things! Be careful though, it needs Flash, and it seems that this hates loading to the full. you may need to refresh it a few times.

Sonic Adventure 2 showcases Sonic and company like you've never seen them before. Sporting all-new animations and a higher polygon count, Soinc Adventure 2 taps into the hardware muscle of the Dreamcast system like nothing before it. Fast and smooth, Sonic Adventure serves up a heaping helping of Dreamcast goodness.

* Play as either the heroes to save the world of the villains to conquer it.
* More than 30 unique missions across 5 visually stunning zones (desert, canyon, island, city, outer space). Explore a forgotten pyramid, an abanoned military base, and a giant space station.
* New scoring system rates your performance in each level. In Stage Select mode, you'll play each mission with five different objectives--see if you can get 'A' ratings on all of them.
* Chao, Chao, and more Chao! Your favorite cuddly critters from the original Sonic Adventure are back, and better than ever. Raise them right, and they could be champions. Collect the whole set, or trade them with your friends.

The Sega.com SA2 Page

The Chao Gardens have been revealed at the SonicTeam webpage, in Engrish! Now thats some fast updat'n. :)

Chao are back and better than ever!
Now's your chance to raise your very own hero or dark Chao. Imagine your Chao taking on hero traits as they hang out with Sonic, Tails or Knuckles. Better yet, how about raising you Chao to be a little "rascal" being with the likes of Shadow, Dr. Eggman or Rouge. This is all possible with the new breed of Chao in Sonic Adventure 2. Chao are now directly affected by which game characters interact with them, and over time, their personality and appearance will change. Also, your Chao's personality is affected by how you interact with them...bully your Chao and he might just turn out to become a little rascal...

Chao Garden

Welcome to Chao garden that will be your first stop when you acquire the "Chao key" in the action stage. Here you will find Chao eggs, which you have to hatch and then raise. Let's have some fun raising Chao!

Hero Garden

Welcome to the most heavenly garden of them all... which opens when you do something very special!

Dark Garden

Welcome to the garden filled with darkness and chaos! How did we get here?

There are also pictures of the Chao Races. But these Hero/Dark Chao rooms show that Tails and Robotnik Actually get outside of their vehicles! Hazzahs are in order, lets hope some normal levels are like this. But what could Eggman do? Find an toaster and toast? "I've made toast! Delicious!" :)

Also, a New SA2 Movie has also been posted, download now!

SA2 Page

SA2 Chao Page

SA2 new Movie Page

Again, thanks goes to CyClone for locating this. The intrepid reporters at planetgamecube.com interviewed Yugi Naka at E3. All references to Nights and Sonic are vague, as usual, but there might be hope that Sonic will come to Gamecube.

Max Lake: I was wondering if there is any chance we'd see a Sonic game on the GameCube in the future?

Naka-san: (smiling) I have to ask Sonic which hardware he wants to run on.

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Max Lake: Is there any chance we'll see any new Nights games in the future?

Naka-san: A lot of people tell me that! I haven't even made it for the Dreamcast, so we'll have to see.

Click here to read the whole article

Earlier this month, it was mentioned that Amy IS in Sonic Adventure 2, and is a big part of the plot, but is not a playable character. In the latest Electronics Gaming Monthly magazine, the first picture of Amy has been shown.

Thanks to Staroxide and Teila for the image.

Sega Europe have announced that the Limited Edition Birthday Box version of Sonic Adventure 2 is heading to PAL territory.

Sonic Adventure 2 is released on the prickly one's tenth birthday on June 23, and there will a strictly limited version of the game available exclusively from our online store. The Sonic Adventure 2 folder contains a copy of the fantastic new game, a 23-track CD of music from Sonic's history, a commemorative gold coin and a booklet covering the 10-year history of Sonic and his friends, all presented in a deluxe blue package.

As there will only be 200 copies of this promotional item released it will become an instant collector's classic, so you'll have to be faster than Sonic to get hold of one. The limited edition of Sonic Adventure 2 goes on sale from midnight on June 23 for a mere ?29.99, and remember, it's only available in our online store.

Source: SoE Birthday Box page.

A new Sonic Dreamcast Bundle is now avaliable across the county. A must for a Sonic fan, who doesn't have a Dreamcast yet.

The Sega Dreamcast Sonic bundle features: a Dreamcast Console, a blue VMU, Sonic Adventure game, Sonic Shuffle game, and a demo of Sonic Adventure 2. All this for one very affordable price!

At $119.00 US dollars, its pretty cheap. That Blue VMU also seems to be that special edition Sonicteam one.

Source: EB Games

SonicTeam.com have just updated with a array of new pictures, of new levels, and new bosses!

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SONIC, Metal Harbour: You are Sonic,? imprisoned with false crime. The prison facility "prison island " empty their troop as it escapes. Here metal harbor is the marine military establishments which were made making use of the shoal of the prison island.

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KNUCKLES, Pumpkin Hill: Breaking searching the fragment of the master emerald which scatters, to mountain zone the .......... which is done. When perceives, as for there, the mountains of the weird pumpkin line up, it was strange mine zone...

MILES "TAILS" PROWER, Mission Street: Sonic, which becomes the wanted person from the troop and the police. In order to shake off the chaser of the troop who is chased obstinately, the night it forces breaks throughout the city in the cyclone!

DR. ROBOTNIK/EGGMAN, Sand Ocean: In order to return to the secret base of the egg man who is hidden in desert zone, it pierces the encirclement of the troop and tears. It jumps over foothold, using the dynamite, it levels the stone pillar of several dozen meter thing heights, that keeps crossing the sea of the quicksand the bridge substituting.

Stage of the rouge which appears in the story first half. Chasing after the egg man, the rouge which it disappears to the secret base of the egg man. But, in order to advance to the inner part of the base, the key of three To handbills must be gathered, it seems....

Note: Yes! That IS E-102 Gamma. The Description reads: Mass production type " E of E - 102 gamma which appear in the previous production - 1000 ", protects here.

O_O! WOW! Not only that, but they have new picture of 2 new boss fights! Shadow Vs. Sonic (Sonic Game), and Dr. Robotnik Vs. Tails (Eggman Game)

More picture and More Info can be found at this address, for the Japanese version of the Sonicteam site (They take about 2 weeks to update the English website), and since E-lingo now hates us all, we'll have to use the Babblefish Translation. Not the best, but you can make some words out :)

This info is from Sega Dojo:

The man who can't be stopped (AKA Mojoe) has uncovered even more tidbits of information for the two upcoming Sonic titles, Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast and Sonic the Hedgehog Advance for the Game Boy Advance. What kind of information, you ask? Multiplayer modes, of course!

Sonic Adventure 2
We already knew that Sonic Adventure 2 would have multiplayer games, as we played a few of them at Sega's booth at E3. However, what we didn't know is that one of the games would be kart racing! Yes indeed, boys and girls. A new kart racing multiplayer game will be added to the final version. Also, in regards to chaos, collecting them will in fact open up hidden game features and mini-games. Perhaps the chao side quests will be worth it this time around, hmm?

Sonic the Hedgehog Advance
In our fresh-off-the-presses Sonic the Hedgehog Advance screenshots story, we revealed to you a picture where you play as Amy, a character introduce in Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. To elaborate on this, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy will all be playable in the final game. Could this be the biggest 2D Sonic game yet?

Also, Sonic the Hedgehog Advance will also support multiplayer games between multiple Game Boy Advance. While details on the games haven't been fully revealed to us yet, we do know that there will be a Chaos Emerald Hunt and Battle mode.

More as we receive it!

Source: Sega Dojo

its here. the sonic advance movie from E3. just go to www.videogamespot.com and go to e3 live then the movies and u will c it. it looks great cya lata robo13

At it Sony and Bleem go again...

In a press release today released by Bleem, Inc., Bleem! has filed a motion to the US District Court for the Northern District of California blaming Sony Computer Entertainment of America (SCEA) for interfering with the marketing and sales of Bleem's new product, "Bleem! For Dreamcast". The motion filed accused SCEA of unlawfully using its market power to strong-arm retailers via threats of legal action and harm to their business dealings with the company. The motion claims that as a result of Sony?s coercion, Babbages stopped distribution of Bleemcast to its stores and asked to return nearly all of its 7,000-unit initial order. "Sony has already asked the judge to pull bleem! from the market in three separate motions, and each time, they?ve lost," stated David Herpolsheimer, president and CEO of Bleem. "This is nothing more than an end-run around the justice system ? Sony is using its huge market power to force retailers into giving them what the courts won?t."

Released on May 2 of this year, Bleem claims that when Electronics Boutique initially carried bleem! for Dreamcast, it sold out of its 11,000 units in barely a week. It quickly became the number-one best-selling product across all gaming platforms on the ebgames.com website, outselling even the highly-anticipated Gran Turismo 3 title and the PlayStation 2 console. However, Bleem claims that pressure from Sony halted reorders and Bleemcast! was temporarily removed from the site. We have yet to get a comment from SCEA, though hopefully we'll be able to speak with someone at SCEA about Bleem's claims later on this week. Stay tuned for more.

And next, on Springer, game companies that'll never stop fighting...

Credit: DCIGN

There just might be some hell to pay for this...

It has been confirmed that Sega has dropped Black & White from its release schedule, no doubt to the surprise and anger of many DC owners - especially when an Xbox version is tipped to already be in the works.

"Unless we can find another publisher this is unlikely to happen," a spokeswoman for developer Lionhead Studios told FGN Online. As soon as we have any further news, we'll let you know.

Credit: FGN Online

Gaming Age just posted some excellent new movies of Sega arcade games! Click here to get to them.

Credit: Gaming Age

Sega had better hope the news is better next year...

As expected, Sega reported a record net loss in its past fiscal year ended March 31, hit by a hefty charge from scrapping inventories of its loss-making Dreamcast, Reuters reports.

The company posted a loss of about $421.9 million for the year, compared to last year's loss of about $349.5 million. Sales dropped 28 percent to about $1.9 billion.

Sega's poor year marks its fourth loss in a row. However, the company's CEO Shunichi Nakamura said Sega expect to make a small profit of about $17 million in this fiscal year, thanks in large part to it focusing on software for other platforms.

Maybe there IS a little light at the end of the tunnel as far as Sega's financial woes go.

Credit: Gamers.com

You may of missed it, but IGN have given the public this new Sonic Adventure 2 movie. This does show new levels, including what seems to be a ship with planes, played as Sonic, and Tails in Radical highway, a level only seen before through the eyes of Shadow. Also, it shows Rouge looking for something besides Emerald Shards, Eggman Keys!

http://dcmedia.ign.com/media/e32001/movies/sonicadventure2.mov