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Well, I didn't see that plot coming...! eek question

And something tells me that that control method's going to be the scourge of parents everywhere.

Sheer scope, I'm assuming. There's a lot of it.

Although, looking at the new gameplay footage from StH, there seems to be a heavy Eastern feel to it. It's Far East rather than Middle East (which Arabian Nights is, although we do have this "Iblis" thingie in with the Japanese stuff for StH...), but whoever's coming up with the plots these days seems to be leaning heavily towards civilisations with a tradition of that sort of mythology.

What a strange plot...

Where is my God now? gonk

What? The Yoshi's Story plot sneaks it's way back into gaming?

That aside, this sounds promising enough.

Nuala

Although, looking at the new gameplay footage from StH, there seems to be a heavy Eastern feel to it. It's Far East rather than Middle East (which Arabian Nights is, although we do have this "Iblis" thingie in with the Japanese stuff for StH...), but whoever's coming up with the plots these days seems to be leaning heavily towards civilisations with a tradition of that sort of mythology.

Did you notice that they used Latin American stuff in Sonic Adventure? I think they're using the same people from SA here now.

The PS3's one is tilt control only, so you can move it to do up, down, left and right, the direction you're holding it. The Wii is a fully manipulative, if you swing it, it'll imitate the entire motion in game.

Sort of like the Sega Bass fishing rod that the geeks among us used for Big's fishing game *hugs his*

As for Wild Fire. I'm suprised that it's an action game. I was expecting Sonic Shuffle style stuff with the Wiimote.

As I'm getting a Wii regardless, thanks to Mario Galaxy and Twilight Princess, I may check it out if I'm feeling dirty.

The promise of no extra hedgehogs makes me feel slightly better about this.

I assume this means Sonic alone, no other Sonic Universe characters.

It'd be false advertising to say "Sonic's first solo adventure" when he's the only playable character among 21 or so other familiar faces.

Afterall, Sonic and Tails were teamed up in Rush, yet Tails was not playable at any point.

Interesting teaser. I liked Sonic's line: "Finally! Something interesting!" xd

Well, apparently there is a new gameplay video up on IGN or Gamespot something, but since they use crappy-as-hell streaming videos and I'd have to be a member to download it, I'm just going to say what I've been told by those who have seen the video. And that is, that Sonic Wild Fire is basically "on rails".

I think that it's a great idea. One of the biggest problems with the 3D Sonic games is that at top speeds, Sonic just isn't controllable with any sort of precision. But this eliminates that; it gives you the 2D idea of just going forward, but you can still get to different areas even though it's not a free-roaming game (not that any Sonic game was free-roaming, but you had 360 degrees of movement in the 3D games) so it isn't necessarily one path, since you get forward and left-to-right movement, can turn around, and you can jump as usual. Y'know, simple stuff. I was initially worried that this game was going to be free-roaming, actually, because there's no way the controls would work with it, but I think this will be a great way to do the Sonic games in 3D.

People are comparing it to things like Panzer Dragoon Orta or Starfox. Oh yeah, here's the IGN article. They seem really pleased too.