Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Early Footage

By Jorge Ba-oh 17.02.2010 20

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Early Footage on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Footage from an early build of upcoming download game Sonic the Hedgehog 4 has leaked onto the internet world.

SEGA's promise to take our beloved excitable hedgehog back to his roots can be seen in the X360 edition as he pegs through a Sonic 1-inspired Green Hill Zone, past some of your favourite badnicks and through several loop-de-loops. Bare in mind it is early footage, so does seem slightly glitchy, but certainly does offer some promise.

Box art for Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I
Developer

Dimps

Publisher

SEGA

Genre

2D Platformer

Players

1

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Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  7/10 (2 Votes)

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Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 17.02.2010#1

Smilie sega taked it down

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 17.02.2010#2

You sure posting this as news is ok? o_o SEGA seem to be popping all over the place to try and take this down.

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Sheena is offline. Sheena 17.02.2010#3

I call rebell time, yarr!

 
Spencer (guest) 17.02.2010#4

It's already been removed! Smilie

Sheena is offline. Sheena 17.02.2010#5

Wow, they really are fast. NINJAS! Smilie

 
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RudyC3 is offline. RudyC3 17.02.2010#6

Sonic's animation is err... i don't have any words to express how much i don't like it XD.

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 17.02.2010#7

How the hell have GameVideos not had that taken down yet? o_o

Anywaaaay~
Sonic's initial startup running and jumping look pretty stupid, I hope they fix it (or make it pure 2D rather than 2D with 3D bits Smilie), but his full speed animation is actually pretty awesome. I can't be the only one who thinks that?

( Edited 17.02.2010 16:14 by Lyra )

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Teetrab is offline. Teetrab 17.02.2010#8

I love it how the guy who's playing this sucks at it. He refused to go on the speed ups and run through the loops correctly.

Looks promising.

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WP-Final is offline. WP-Final 17.02.2010#9

The little screenshot of the special stage in the video looks like the Sonic 1 Special Stages.

 
welshwuff is offline. welshwuff 17.02.2010#10

got i hope when they say early, they mean EAAARRRLLLYYYY. controls, animation and style look god aweful. well really it is obviously early with alot of bugs, but even so the stuff that looks "finished" needs to be revisited like the animations.

Anyone else notice the sprite sonic as a loading screen, and think "look, how its SUPPOST to be."

( Edited 17.02.2010 18:29 by welshwuff )

 
JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 17.02.2010#11

welshwuff said:
Anyone else notice the sprite sonic as a loading screen, and thing "look, how its SUPPOST to be."

I'm not happy with the animations either, but I'm ecstatic that SEGA didn't pull a MegaMan 9.

( Edited 17.02.2010 17:21 by Lyra )

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PMD is offline. PMD 18.02.2010#12

I think it looks great. It's floaty, and some of the animations don't look polished, but you can't make a 3D game exactly like a sprite-based game.

 
TimoteiWest is offline. TimoteiWest 18.02.2010#13

Honestly, I didn't get time to focus on the running animations, I was distracted by giant, white hedgehog farts.

Those dust clouds need toning down, just, make them smaller and translucent or something! Gah!

 
E-Dracon is offline. E-Dracon 18.02.2010#14

.... this really should be sprite based, Sonic looks terrible like that.

 
Super Sonic is offline. Super Sonic 19.02.2010#15

Since this is just a Beta,you can't look that much into it. Maybe SEGA will fix the animation plus increase the running. I am looking forward to this but I might see if there is a demo first, just to see what it is like before I spend money on it.



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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 19.02.2010#16

Super Sonic said:
Since this is just a Beta,you can't look that much into it. Maybe SEGA will fix the animation plus increase the running. I am looking forward to this but I might see if there is a demo first, just to see what it is like before I spend money on it.

Since it's download there almost definitely will be a demo, on PSN and XBLA anyway.

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Super Sonic is offline. Super Sonic 19.02.2010#17

Lyra said:

Since it's download there almost definitely will be a demo, on PSN and XBLA anyway.

You don't think there will be a downlaod for the Wii Ware version?



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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 19.02.2010#18

Super Sonic said:
You don't think there will be a downlaod for the Wii Ware version?

Are you kidding? Wiiware has only had like 4 demos ever, and they're gone already.

( Edited 18.02.2010 21:27 by Lyra )

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Sonic_13 is offline. Sonic_13 19.02.2010#19

Lyra said:
Super Sonic said:
Lyra said:
Since it's download there almost definitely will be a demo, on PSN and XBLA anyway.
You don't think there will be a downlaod for the Wii Ware version?
Are you kidding? Wiiware has only had like 4 demos ever, and they're gone already.

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There could be. The demos that were available this past fall were part of a trial by Nintendo. The results seem promising as there were many reports that sales increased for the games that had demos, which bodes well for getting demos for more games in the future (Sonic 4 could be one of those).

Obviously there is currently no demo feature for the Wii Shop Channel, but between now and the game's release (which is summer, right?) there is the North American/European Media Summit, GDC, and (depending on when during the summer it comes out) E3. At any of those events WiiWare demos could officially be announced (and I would guess they likely will be).





( Edited 19.02.2010 08:39 by Sonic_13 )

 
LKR000 is offline. LKR000 22.02.2010#20

wAyNe said:
The little screenshot of the special stage in the video looks like the Sonic 1 Special Stages.

I much prefered the ones in sonic 3, far better in my opinion but if there bringing the ones from sonic 1 back thats gonna suck. I hated those special stages xD

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