SEGA unveils new Sonic game for Wii

By Robert Purchese Published 21 July, 2008

Follow-on to Secret Rings next spring.

SEGA has plans to release a brand new Sonic adventure exclusively for Wii in spring 2009.

It's called Sonic and the Black Knight and is part of the storybook series that started with Sonic and the Secret Rings last year.

Sonic Team is the clever-clogs behind the game. It's set Arthurian Britain where your little blue hedgehog has a sword and can become a knight - and perhaps fight a dragon and kiss humans.

It will be fast and filled with all the usual faces from the series, plus sport a similar motion-sensing control system to Secret Rings.

Other details are scarce, but hopefully it won't stray too far from the less-is-more reinterpretation that Sonic and the Secret Rings charmed us with.

That game still commands a spot in the UK all formats top 40 chart, and finished at 22 last week.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Razz #1 4 years ago

    I hope it will be good this time.

  • johnnybrn #2 4 years ago

    Sega have done well to allay themselves with Nintendo and drop hardware production.

    They have also taken the same line and determined to flog the same games again, and again and again...

  • asphaltcowboy #3 4 years ago

    I bought Secret Rings on EG's recommendation (admittedly once it had hit the bargain bins) and it was utter shit.

  • the_dudefather #4 4 years ago

    it....might be good

  • rudedudejude #5 4 years ago

    Likewise asphaltcowboy, took it back and swapped it.

    It wasn't too bad, but the crappy control method sucked and the pixel perfect jumping sequences just sucked ass.

  • ryohazuki1983 #6 4 years ago

    Wonder if sonic will change into a few different things with different abilities, like kid chameleon

  • Cadence #7 4 years ago

    Talk about flogging a dead horse.

  • jmctavish #8 4 years ago

    Sonic and the Secret Rings is one of the main reasons I don't trust game reviews. It is abysmal.

  • gingerlink #9 4 years ago

    likewise, I thought the original was rubbish as well, although for me it was borrowing from a friend, so no money lost ;)

  • Quint2020 #10 4 years ago

    "Your little blue hedgehog has a sword and can become a knight"

    MASSIVE FAIL.

  • Artemus #11 4 years ago

    How low can Sonic go?

  • redgiemental #12 4 years ago

    the motion sensor portion of the controls weren't the problem i had. It was having to charge jumps and release running against decades of platformer experience with a throughly opposite method. It was counter intuitive for me and always felt awkward. If this games uses the same jump mechanic I shall be giving it a miss thank you.

  • consignia #13 4 years ago

    How low can Sonic go?

    I agree. I mean, the Sonic series hasn't been truly great since the 16-bit era, but these last couple of years are hitting Bubsy the Bobcat lows. It's genuinely depressing to see the once great Sonic plunging to such depths of shit.

  • Agent_Llama #14 4 years ago

    Secret Rings is an awful mess of a game, horrid to play. How it reviewed well I don't know.

  • FooAtari #15 4 years ago

    Poor Sonic, what have Sega reduced you to,

  • Zelos #16 4 years ago

    Wow, reading that Eurogamer review of Secret Rings it's like they played a completely different game to me. It wasn't terrible, but it's definitely not 8/10 level.

  • Daikon #17 4 years ago

    Sega should just kill the blue bugger.
    I'll take the Monkey Ball monkeys or Ulala over Sonic any day.

  • clockworkzombie #18 4 years ago

    Like others I too purchased it based on the EG review, now when I read a review I think, will it be another sonic?.

    I was having fun, then I noticed I would rather play something else or make excuses than boot the sonic game so back it went. EB in Australia have a return policy where you can return it for credit in the first week no questions asked.

  • Darren #19 4 years ago

    I came from the dreadful 360 version of Sonic the Hedgehog to the addictive Wii version of Sonic and the Secret Rings and that game was an absolute joy to play in comparison, believe you me. The decision to make the game a Pandemonium-style 2D game in a 3D world worked well and the only gripe was the inability to turn and run the other way, instead you could only WALK backwards. Still it was a game where you had to keep moving forward so it didn't spoil the game significantly for me. Good game, probably the best Sonic since... forever really.

  • JamesG #20 4 years ago

    Another one who brought Secret Rings on the basis of the Eurogamer review. It was dire, the controls felt unresponsive and cumbersome. I certainly wont be touching another title in the series. (Also, given the title of the latest Batman film, I wouldn't be surprised if this title gets re-named.)

  • SharksInYourMouth #21 3 years ago

    Can't wait, Secret Rings won me over.