Yeah, I totally forgot about Sum-Up Sunday this week, and judging by the title I don’t even know what day it is today (although if you’re in the UK, it makes perfect sense)! But that won’t stop us from rounding up last week’s news, just a little later than normal.
Sonic Generations
- And we begin with the news that a number of Best Buy stores in the US started selling Generations soon as they got it, causing much
mayhem, droppin’ dramaexcitement among the US fanbase. - A German game site was the first to review the game, giving it 85%, and crazy Sonic fans got angry. IGN followed suit, giving it 8.5, and crazy Sonic fans didn’t get angry. Guess there’s something to this 10-point scale after all…
- Likely contributing to those pretty cool scores is the revelation that the original Sonic on Megadrive is an unlockable in the game.
- Plenty of previews, as you’d expect from the week before a major release. We got footage of a Green Hill race against Knuckles (which actually shows Knux for about… half a second?), a Jp showing of the Collection Room, and a load of rival battle screens.
- Meanwhile, IGN went as far as streaming their live gameplay of the game… at least before they assumedly realised what they were doing, and abruptly shut the stream down.
- On the 3DS, we found out how the StreetPass function is used for its mission mode, but didn’t really get much else. Then again, we still got a whole month before this version sees the light of day.
- In the week Sega announced that Generations is the most pre-ordered Sonic game ever, an employee at the UK’s biggest retailer Game Group reveals why they weren’t particularly interested in the shit-hot Collector’s Edition. We at TSS had no such qualms however, posting our buyer’s guide
in a feeble attempt to make money. - And to close with the subject of Sonic after Generations, we hear that Classic Sonic won’t be seeing a return in later games. Hopefully that doesn’t mean Sonic will peak with Generations and then slide back into mediocrity…
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games didn’t see much news… apart from a new trailer showing footage of some of the new events.
The Other Stuff
- Remember that skateboard event we reported that Sega were sponsoring? Brad and a few guys decided to head up there and see what’s what.
- Over the pond in France, Sega’s teamed up with French restaurant chain Flunch to promote Generations.
- Our sister site The Sonic Show celebrated getting 1000 subscribers on Youtube, by doing… well, what any Sonic fan in the 90s probably wanted to do.
- And in one of the weirdest linkups I’ve seen for a while, artificial crooner Hatsune Miku will be “singing” Sega songs including Live and Learn in a new CD.
Finally, some kid called Svend put his green echidna sprite on a webpage for the first time eleven years ago. To celebrate, he decided to talk about what happened this year, instead! Silly boi.
So that’s it for what happened last week. Let us know what you thought of the week’s news, and the Sum-Up will be back this Sunday. Promise…
FIRST! for the first time!!!
FUN FUN FUN FUN looking forward to the weekend
i love these sum-ups. can’t wait for friday now!!
its seems i send comments from the future lol
Why do your headlines regularly have snippets of D12 lyrics from like 10 years ago?
…I can dig it.
Sega are going to make a bundle from Sonic Generations. They would be absolutely mad not to make a sequel.
They might do, but probably not in such an abrupt way as “Sonic Generations 2”. They might do a “continuation”, as they did with the adventure series > heroes. Or they might use elements from the game for later games…
Or they might decide to do something completely different, but still AWESOME.
I don’t think there will be a Generations 2, but the hype and positive reception behind the game can only get people interested in Sonic again, so this will hopefully boost the ‘hog’s profile.
Actually…its been said that they WONT be doing another Generations game because it was a anniversary exclusive….reading the description of Sonic Dimensions…sonic might go back to being mediocre (casual gamer style)
JUST 2 MOAR NIGHTS!!!
not me 2morrow
U no the shadow boss battle…. SEGA should make sonic adventure 3 and have shadow able to boost like he does in sonic generations!!!! that would be cool and have super shadow or make a Sonic 2006 2 but have it Sonic 2012 and have sonics gameplay like it is,Shadows like sonics but harder and silvers like star wars the force unleashed sort of or have a game when sonic and amy have 2 kids named Sonic Jr. and rossy that would be AWSOME!!!!!!!!!
lmfao….that actually sounded cool in my head.
Erm…..Cool……
you can pre-load generations on steam now!!
im doing mine this minute
sorry for saying twice i could not connect to the page properly
Ian, you missed the reveal of Tropical Resort for Generations 3ds. it happend over the week end.
They didn’t miss it.Go around the news and find it.
I guess that just about sums it all up then huh
AWESOME 😀 Loving these some ups great to catch up
I CAN’T WAIT FOR FRIDAY the best DAY EVER Perfect day to release Generations!
2 More days >_>
Hey I’ve gotta question has anyone ordered their Generations Collector’s Edition via base and if so have they shipped your’s yet? As it’s now Thursday and mine’s still pending… I hope it arrives on time :s (p.s how reliable are base.co
?)
Just got it yesterday… You guys are gonna love it trust me.
Mine’s still not dispatched from Amazon. Knew I should have left it on Super Saver Delivery. Not gonna change it now though just in case I lose my allocation or some crap!
Mine’s not been dispatched either, on the order status thing it says its in the middle of dispatch and was estimated to have left yesterday. I contacted Amazon about it but they don’t know why there’s been a problem here and I’m waiting to hear back to see if I’ll actually get it this side of the weekend. Is there anyone else with this problem at all?
On a side note hopefully with generations Time travelling escapades, we can have a bit of a Hedgehog Universe Reboot, with Egg-man’s return to the Robotnik name, maybe a Sonic Model halfway between Modern and Classic Sonic, the Return of some Classic zone areas near Station Square ya know a fusion of the two universes and actual badniks again instead of Egg Pawns and freakin special zones lol
@SegaSonic27 A game were Sonic and Amy have kids will never happen.
I GOT IT I GOT IT I GOT IT GAMEMANIA SELLS IT