Sonic Unleashed game revealed in leaked video

Sonic Unleashed werewolfSega Magazine announced Sonic Unleashed, a new game for next-gen systems (presumably PS3, Xbox 360 & Wii). Apparently the game has a massive budget and the development team has the following mission statement: “To rebuild the Sonic brand and prove it could work in 3D environments.” Although it looks like there’ll be 2.5D platforming too, similar to Sonic Rush. After this news leaked online, Sega Europe officially confirmed the game for a November 2008 release. Play as Sonic, Knuckles or Tails through 12 packed stages.

Sonic Unleashed will be the next Sonic canon game, a follow up of Sonic 06’s Iblis disaster, which explains the dark Sonic werewolf character shown in the screenshot above. Also shown is a yellow Super Sonic attempting to stop Eggman once more, but the bad guy has a new trick up his sleeve, which results in Sonic having to deal with a rather unnatural curse that creates a werewolf alter-ego of himself. At various points he will change into his werewolf form, at which point a gameplay gimmick will come into play, using rapid combo maneuvers and Ring Energy. Could this be Sonic’s return to glory?

Sonic returns to his roots in this new platformer. Watch the first Sonic Unleashed video.

More details are expected on May’s Sega Gamer’s Day. — Screenshots can be found at Sonicstadium