Sonic Wild Fire Comments by Tom Bramwell
Hogging the remote.
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Halo Jones
25/05/06 @ 11:10
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It's sonic and it's aimed at kids and you know it's going to be a POS!
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Carrybagma
25/05/06 @ 11:14
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Haven't played any Sonic since someone showed me Sonic summitoranother on his DC.
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Ignatius_Cheese
25/05/06 @ 11:18
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I challenge anyone (including Halo Jones...) to watch any of the various videos pottered about the net for this title and restate their opinions. Words can only say so much but, in motion, this title looks quite impressive
For those of you who played the first Sonic Adventure, the gameplay looks very similar to the first level but with a realtime "killer whale chase"-style feel. Seeing as that's the only level of SA I play when I dig out the DC, that says something.
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The Bodybuilder
25/05/06 @ 11:20
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I must say, I've been thoroughly underwhelmed by many of the wii previews.
Prior to most of them, I was filled with hype. But 90% of the wii games so far seem so.....shallow.
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Wrestlevania
25/05/06 @ 11:28
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It's with creeping dread that I have to admit: you might be right, Bodybuilder...
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Ignatius_Cheese
25/05/06 @ 12:08
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@ Psi - Here's a link to some videos: IGN vids...
Not too sure how long this link will stay visible but try and have a quick peek :o) |
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"Wild Fire's easily one of the prettiest Wii games we've seen. Like Monkey Ball, it's second only to Nintendo's home-made stuff in terms of visual detail, with huge draw distances, no hint of slowdown and a heavy, sandy sort of atmospheric complexion that looked far nicer than any of his recent Adventure engines and, frankly, a bit of an improvement on the tech-demo sterility of his PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 outing"
WooHoo! Wii is better than PS3 and 360! Confirmed! |
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This game looks pretty crap. :/ A totally gimmicky use of the controller - turning it left and right to turn Sonic? Sonic is not a fucking car, despite his recent corridor running affairs. A great use of the Wii controller would have been to turn it on it's side, make a 2D Sonic, and have classic Sonic controls with the D-pad and the 1 and 2 buttons.
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It's too on rails for my liking, and the control system doesn't seem suitable for a game that is on rails.
I think using the remote as a pointer and dragging Sonic around the screen, ala Sonic Rush's special stages, would have been better. The special stages in Sonic Rush would have been impossible to complete without direct touch screen control, but it gives you immediacy of control like a pointer would. |
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"At no point during our demo though did SEGA's spiky hero start roaming around freely."
Good! Because I have never played a Sonic game to go 'free roaming'. That's what Mario (and countless other 3D platformers) are for. Sonic games have an altogether different appeal, and given that it was always the most linear parts of the Sonic Adventure titles that I enjoyed most, this game is looking extremely promising to me. If there's one thing Sonic Adventure 2 did really well it was the grinding in that jungle level - I can imagine this working really well with the Wiimote, as you could use it to balance Sonic as he's speeding down the rails. Make it happen, Sega!
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"At no point during our demo though did SEGA's spiky hero start roaming around freely."
Could you elaborate on this, please? Are you saying that Sonic's movement in Wild Fire feels like being "on-rails", in the way that you don't have any choice on where to go, like, say, Panzer Dragoon Orta?
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NegativeZero
25/05/06 @ 23:22
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Whenever Sonic comes up in discussion I get the feeling that I was the only person alive who really liked the original Sonic Adventure. Shame that everything since then seemed to have forgotten what it's supposed to be doing.
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3william56
26/05/06 @ 04:29
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The big question is whether the game any more fun using the wiimote, compared with a thumbstick or steering wheel for the same game, or it's another DS Ridge Racer type forced use of a novel control method?
But, god forgive me, it looks again like it would be more suited to tilt control than waving / movement. So far, few (if any) wiimote games seem to use the additional functionality of the wiimote over Sony's tilter. If ninty don't want to get spoilered by the DS3, they really need to get out some things that the Sony watered down effort can't do. |
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The Bodybuilder
27/05/06 @ 16:52
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>"I was the only person alive who really liked the original Sonic Adventure"
The SA games were great. They were the only good sonic games left. I especially loved the first (other than the knuckle levels), firs time playing sonic on the dreamcast. Nights into dreams would be great on the wii, but I have to say I'm not more careful about the wii than ever before. |
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