


If Sonic Boom goes pear-shaped, it won’t affect whatever it is Sonic Team are working on. The easiest comparison to make would be Marvel’s Ultimate Universe, which features different character back stories and designs, while not affecting the main series.

It’s an offshoot of the Sonic universe, existing with its own canon. This should come as good news to some of you. This is designed to be one of the games that show off the capability of the Wii U. What this also means is that Sonic Boom might actually not contain a ton of annoying and intrusive bugs, which have been known to hinder Sonic games in the past.īig Red Button confirmed in an interview with CVG that they worked closely with Crytek to produce dual splitscreen on the Wii U Gamepad and the TV simultaneously. Especially for a Wii U game, the game looks very good graphically, with all sorts of lighting and particle effects. In a Crytek video from GDC in March 2013 showcasing the different environments from CryEngine projects, one of the sizzle reels shows locations from Sonic Boom. People have been clawing at the possibility of a non-Sonic Team game since time immemorial, so now they get the chance to see how another developer would interpret the series.Įagle-eyed Sonic fans have seen the locales shown in the trailer before. Now it appears he gets the chance to right some of those wrongs with Sonic Boom. Chris Senn worked on the ill-fated Sonic Xtreme for Sega Saturn, which was infamously cancelled in 1996. Rafei was a key player in the creation of Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and the first Uncharted title.Īnother developer whose name might be a mystery to some of you, but whom Sonic fans might know is Chris Senn. Bob Rafei was one of the first Naughty Dog employees, and was employed at the legendary studio for over a decade. The first trailer for Sonic Boom revealed that the developer for the Wii U version of the game is Big Red Button Entertainment, a studio formed in 2008 by Bob Rafei. It’s being developed in the US by notable developers Here’s everything you need to know – the good, bad and the ugly. Amid all the controversies and jokes you’ll find on the web, it can be tough to separate fact from fiction and criticism from crying. One of the big talking points on the day of the reveal was the new look given to Sonic and co. SEGA finally lifted the lid on Sonic Boom, a new game and 3D animated cartoon show, coming as a surprise to many.
