SONIC HEROS SCREENSHOTS
Although planetcube is a honest source of news(most of the time) These screenshots of the newest sonic game look very suspicious...What do you guys think? hoax or not?
I\'m almost certain it is.

http://planetgamecube.com/games.cfm?action=profile&id=1003

:rolleyes:

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I hope it\'s like sonic/shadow\'s kind of gameplay.
No slow paced stuff like the eggwalker. --;;

Really could you give me a link?
Well...I\'m not sure what to think...They make it sound like the game is going to play like the lost vikings...Switching back forth for puzzles and stuff will just slow this game down...Atleast knuckles no longer has to search for those damned emeralds! WOOT!
Hopefully It\'ll be another great chapter in the sonic saga....Heres to....Wait is that vector??

Yeah, that\'s Vector, right along with Espio and Charmy..

E3 2003: There\'s a nifty kind of irony to some of the features in Sonic Heroes, the first game in Sega\'s flagship series to debut on multiple platforms. A game coming out on three competing consoles also happens to star teams of three heroes, working in concert with their different strengths to overcome a shared goal. It\'s a funny contrast to the tooth-and-nail competition between PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube, none of which would ever think about working with the other...although, perhaps we\'re just reading too much into this.
Its tandem three-character gameplay, regardless of whether you want to read it as a comment on anything in particular, is the central feature of Sonic Heroes. It\'s presented more or less like Sonic Adventure, with our speedy heroes blazing down a high-speed track, but instead of just one star, there are now three lined up in single file. Or, depending on the formation you choose, they might run side by side in a neat delta formation. Or they might all hang together from Tails\' arms as he flies them across a gap to their next destination.

Even though there are three heroes, you see, one of them has to lead. To reflect who\'s in charge at any given time -- Sonic, Knuckles, or Tails -- they have three formations, which in turn affects what type of challenges they can overcome. Speed formation, where Sonic takes the lead, is naturally useful for covering ground at a good clip, or building up the momentum required to get around a loop or clear a long jump. Power formation, with Knuckles in the lead, lets the team smash through barriers and clear other obstacles requiring a little brute strength. And Flight formation, of course, lets Tails grab hold of his partners and helicopter his way over a gap or up a high cliff.

At least in the early demo, the game offers some cues pointing towards which formation is useful in any given situation. While blazing through the level, you\'ll cross through gates that pop up a warning and swap the team over to the recommended formation. It looks as if the level design will eventually offer more than one option in some situations, though, so it\'s not as if the game devolves into a simple Simon-Says sort of affair.

It\'s also cool to learn that there isn\'t just the one team of characters to play with. It\'s not clear whether other teams besides the main heroes will be available at the start, but the game will contain other trios led by different characters from throughout the Sonic series. Sonic Adventure 2\'s Shadow will lead a team of darker opposite numbers, while there\'s also going to be an all-female team led by Amy from Sonic Adventure. The complete selection of characters hasn\'t been revealed as yet, but it\'s good to see Sonic Team taking advantage of the expansive cast it\'s built up over the years.

Sonic Heroes has a ways to go before we can get a solid handle on how far it plans to take its multi-character gameplay. The first demo level is very simple, a linear high-speed excursion in the style of the first level from Sonic Adventure. It\'s also not all that visually astounding, with relatively simple backgrounds and characters as yet -- Billy Hatcher is much further along and looking better so far. Sonic has the potential to become something very cool, though, if Sonic Team can create level designs that use its concepts to the fullest. Let\'s hope his multi-platform debut makes a suitably impressive splash.


Publisher: Sega Developer: Sonic Team (Sega) Release Date: December 31, 2003




Poor knuckles...Always stuck with people of lesser talent.

It looks pretty cool. I saw my four favorite caricters (Amy, Big, Cream, and E-102 Gamma) so I\'m gonna get it if it is real.

Can you mix up the char\'s as long as you have 3 with the same style\'s
Sonic/Shadow
Knuckle\'s/Knuckle\'s
Tail\'s/e102 gamma

I don\'t think so...And gokgok its real! it was at E3 and gamers.com posted as part of their E3 Coverage so i\'m sure its real! WOOT!:cool::):D

Since I\'m usually found on The Sonic Foundation, I\'ve got a pretty good amount of info on the game:

1) There\'s four teams, each composed of a speedster, a flyer, and a strong guy. The teams are as follows:

Team Sonic:
Speed: Sonic
Flying: Tails
Strength: Knuckles

Team Rose:
Speed: Amy Rose
Flying: Cream the Rabbit
Strength: Big the Cat

Team Dark:
Speed: Shadow
Flying: Rouge
Strength: The robot. It\'s definately NOT E-102 Gamma, as he was destroyed in SA1, and besides, this robot has an Omega symbol on its shoulder, so it\'s probably called \"Omega.\"

Team Chaotix:
Speed: Vector the Crocodile
Flying: Charmy the Bee
Strength: Espio the Chameleon

You can NOT mix up the teams.

2) Robotnik\'s back to being the main villian, thank god. Metal Sonic\'s also back, and is shown in the Sonic Heroes video at Sega\'s website.

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I have the demo and Omega kicks @$$

Just for fun, I\'ll fill you guys in on just who Charmy, Vector, and Espio are if you don\'t already know. These three are part of a team of five or six, which also include Knuckles and Army the Armadillo, known as the Chaotix. A game by the same name was they\'re debut, except for Knuckles. The story line is unknown to me, but I do know that this was not they\'re only appearance. They have been appearing in the Archie comics series pretty regularly. Also, when Knuckles had a comic series, which spaned only 32 issues, they appeared very often in there. Now for a brief, comic-based bio of the Chaotix team of Sonic Heroes.

Vector: Music-oving, girl-crazy crocidile.

Charmy: Bee of royal heritage, ran away to escape responsibilities, able to change size when need to fly comes.

Espio: Little known to me, can camoflauge and is relatively fast.

Remember, these are based on the comic series and may not be true in Sonic Heroes

Game will be coming out...in less than 2 months. Whoop!

Anyway, as you all seem too now know, it is a real game. And yes it is similer to Knuckels Chaotix. However Sega assures us that the key play-point of this game will be its speed. No puzzles that can\'t be solved in less than .00042 seconds!

I\'ll be playing it...

Does anyone know what the release date for the UK is?
(they all seem to differ)

i have the demo on the mario kart preorder thing..... not a big fan of the game.....

Even IF I\'d want it, I\'d never be able to play it anyway.... but, as it\'s somewhat the same as Chaotix, I don\'t even mind. Chaotix was... well, you know!

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Make, do you know if it has been confirmed whether or not the non-Gamecube versions of the game will include the Japanese cast?

About the non-Gamecube versions of this game, I\'ve heard from Electronic Gaming Monthly that the PS2 version \"is slower, has worse graphics, and somehow even sounds worse.\" Of course, they may be wrong. I don\'t have a PS2 so I can\'t check that.

Theres also seems to be a karaoke part in it with the Chaotix. x.x;;
Oh and release date for it in Europe is 6th Feb.
:: Poorly made wallpaper :. ..yes I do wanna play it quite abit.

EDIT: wtf? That link had a smile in it.

[Edited on 12-1-2004 by VicKun]

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