Nintendo of Europe and SEGA of Europe have today confirmed that they have entered into a new distribution agreement for the forthcoming Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice scheduled to release exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems across Europe this Winter. Under the terms of the agreement Nintendo of Europe will be responsible for the sales, marketing and distribution of the game throughout European territories, with SEGA of Europe remaining as publisher.

The iconic 'blue blur,' Sonic the Hedgehog, will be racing once again in Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice as the game introduces more adventure, speed, exploration, and an all-new fire and ice gameplay element that will help propel the action. The game will also feature the triumphant return of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Sticks.

Developed by Sanzaru Games Inc., Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice is a single player game with collaborative gameplay components that shares key characters, events, and lore of the Sonic Boom universe.

 

[RevPokemon]

Sega why not make a new shenmue game instead????

 

[Clydefrosch]

Sega why not make a new shenmue game instead????

i guess expensive in development, pretentious as f, they know they couldn't possibly make anyone happy if they tried cause how do you satisfy all those people who hyped this game as one of the greatest in history. and the salesnumbers being at best, moderate, considering the reviews and ratings the game got back then.
in addition to that, at this point, they would probably need to redo the original games first, so people actually know whats going on, unless they're supposed to start over with a whole new storylike or something

on the other hand, sonic games are easy and quick to do. and I'm pretty ok with sonic boom. even with all its faults, stil liked it more than the original sonic adventure

 

[RevPokemon]

i guess expensive in development, pretentious as f, they know they couldn't possibly make anyone happy if they tried cause how do you satisfy all those people who hyped this game as one of the greatest in history. and the salesnumbers being at best, moderate, considering the reviews and ratings the game got back then.
in addition to that, at this point, they would probably need to redo the original games first, so people actually know whats going on, unless they're supposed to start over with a whole new storylike or something

on the other hand, sonic games are easy and quick to do. and I'm pretty ok with sonic boom. even with all its faults, stil liked it more than the original sonic adventure

Just saying that who will buy this? The first sonic boom was a bomb and did poorly so why will this one do better? Sega needs to take time off instead of releasing a sonic game every year

 

[Clydefrosch]

Just saying that who will buy this? The first sonic boom was a bomb and did poorly so why will this one do better? Sega needs to take time off instead of releasing a sonic game every year

because they're more recent failures and they still have the sonic name attached to them. they give this a better chance than the game people usually can't even pronounce right

 

[RevPokemon]

because they're more recent failures and they still have the sonic name attached to them. they give this a better chance than the game people usually can't even pronounce right

I know but still stop releasing a sonic game every year, thats what killed mega man

 

[Clydefrosch]

I know but still stop releasing a sonic game every year, thats what killed mega man

didn't megaman die because they stopped releasing games?

 

[RevPokemon]

didn't megaman die because they stopped releasing games?

Well before that they were releasing a huge ton of those D's/GBA RPG type of games like battle network and then people complained how they never changed or improved and eventually they just quit.

I'm all in for mega man and sonic games just don't make a game a year and it be mediocre but take time to make a good game

 

[Clydefrosch]

Well before that they were releasing a huge ton of those D's/GBA RPG type of games like battle network and then people complained how they never changed or improved and eventually they just quit.

I'm all in for mega man and sonic games just don't make a game a year and it be mediocre but take time to make a good game

never got people complaining that these games never changed or improved. every new game changed up the gameplay and added new mechanics and improved on old ones. and they did sell decently. (well, the battle network games they ported to the ds didn't sell much. and it was funny how they chose the least sold games to port over too) two at least outsold shenmue and most of them outsold the other shenmue games.

but whatever, at this point, i dont think that working longer on these games is really the way to save them. people have been burned by sonic games one too many times so they gave up on the series. and they've been burned because sonic just never really translated well into the realm of 3d. quick 3d jump n runs just dont work. only way to make it work really is to put the character on rails as they did in the last games, which people usually didnt like, or slow down the character through werehog. which, again, people didn't like. putting the char back on 2d like they did in sonic rush or generations can work, however, towards the end of sonics 2d run, the stage designes were usually hideous and annoying. i mean, god, sonic 3 on genesis and advance 3 had hideously annoying stages. not challenging, simply hideous.##
its not easy making a good sonic game these days honestly.

 

[Chary]

So is this gonna be like Rise of Lyric or Shattered Crystal in terms of gameplay? I really liked Rise of Lyric (well, the demo at least, I haven't gotten on to buying it yet)

It's by the same team that developed Shattered Crystal, so I assume it'll be similar to that game.

 

[CathyRina]

Sega please just give me a Chao Garden game. I don't care for anything else sonic related.

 

[The Catboy]

Please try not suck this time around.

 

[Hells Malice]

Sega why not make a new shenmue game instead????

Just like Bamco was afraid of money, Sega is afraid of good franchises. They drop a franchise once it's established to be excellent.

 

[RevPokemon]

Just like Bamco was afraid of money, Sega is afraid of good franchises. They drop a franchise once it's established to be excellent.

Also jet set, samba, crazi taxi, ecco.

 

[NeroAngelo]

this is sooooo confusing ... wasn't the previous Boom game crappier on the 3DS ?? how did these people think "lets make another 3ds one!!" instead of say ... WiiU ?

 

[Sheimi]

I'll have to wait for reviews on this one.

 

[RevPokemon]

this is sooooo confusing ... wasn't the previous Boom game crappier on the 3DS ?? how did these people think "lets make another 3ds one!!" instead of say ... WiiU ?

Wiiu was by far worse and awful.
3ds version had no bugs but was just boring uninspired 2d platforming

 

[tbb043]

A Sonic of Ice and Fire?

I hope it's full of incest and murder, and

Spoiler

Sonic gets beheaded at the end of the first level.

 

[TecXero]

They should have stopped at Sonic CD and the Sonic Adventure Games. Everything since then has been redundant.

I wouldn't quite agree. Sonic Generations I enjoyed, first Sonic game I really got into since Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

 

[NeroAngelo]

I wouldn't quite agree. Sonic Generations I enjoyed, first Sonic game I really got into since Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Colors and Lost World (WiiU) were quite good as well

 

[Chary]

They should have stopped at Sonic CD and the Sonic Adventure Games. Everything since then has been redundant.

Tsk, what about Sonic Advance?