Sega is back to their awesome Sonic days! (Sonic Adventure 2 HD on 360 | PS3)

[FamicomRetroGamer]

While Sonic IV Episode II had a bit of a slow gameplay, it was actually a pretty good game, and now, later on this year we're gonna get Sonic Adventure 2 HD on Xbox 360 and PS3.

Yes, the marvellous Sonic Adventure 2 HD is making its way to Xbox 360 and PS3.

Release date: 3rd October 2012!

Source: Digiex - Sonic Adventure 2 remaster for XBLA and PSN coming 3rd October

As for the price, I'd imagine it's gonna be 800 MSP for XBL, PSN will probably about the same cost or so.

I really hope they also bring back Sonic Adventure 2 Battle HD.

[petik1]

Sonic's been on a good streak since episode 1. Ill probably download this.

[L___E___T]

SEGA is hardly back to their awesome Sonic days.  Total shame because I love them but I think they've been losing fans ever since the Dreamcast went downhill.

[son_ov_hades]

^Whole lotta truth there.

[GohanX]

As much as I love Sonic Adventure 1, SA2 is a buggy piece of crap. It's most redeeming feature is that it's at least not as bad as Sonic 2006.

I even tried to play through it again last year on the DC. Maybe I didn't give it a fair shake back in the day. I played through to the end, and the Sonic stages are pretty fun, but the others are not, and I quit playing Sonic's last stage since the bugs were so horrible that stage is nearly unplayable.

Now, if they fixed the bugs, I'd give it another shot on XBLA, but Sonic Adventure 1 didn't turn out so hot.

[petik1]

But SA on xbla was a port. This looks like an HD remake

[L___E___T]

I think the fact that they can't reproduce what made the Sonic Megadrive games so special is telling in itself.  
I played SA2 but never thought it was anything near Mario 64 I'm afraid.

I'm not shitting on SEGA I just hoped they'd return to former glory but all I read lately makes it look like they're taking one step forward two steps back

[nintendodork]

Nice! I'd say I'd buy this right away since I really liked SA2 when I played it all the time on the GCN as a kid, but XBLA ports/HD remakes are almost always too expensive for my taste when I already have the game on an older system.  It would be nice to have the convenience of it being on my Xbox though, since I hardly play my Dreamcast or Wii anymore.

[L___E___T]

By the way, is it really an HD remake or are the polygons just scaled up?

Just having it in 720/1080 isn't an HD remake in my book.

[FamicomRetroGamer]

By the way, is it really an HD remake or are the polygons just scaled up?

Just having it in 720/1080 isn't an HD remake in my book.

Remastered in 720/1080 is in fact an HD resolution & HD remaster. It's obviously remastered in 720p HD.

[FamicomFreak]

OK so what of it? It's a remake of a game released over 10 years ago? How is this back to their awesome Sonic days? It's the same game just with better graphics...how about a good sonic game for once?

[petik1]

Sonic 4 ep. 1&2, Colors, Generations, and the CD remaster. That should be good for the last two years.

[L___E___T]

I thought Colours & Generations were ok, but both mixed with great bits and poor bits.  I thought Sonic Episodes sucked, which made me sad.

I think of your a fan of the DC Sonics then this is well worth it, but why can't they just make another great Sonic game?  Why?  What's stopping them?!

[FamicomRetroGamer]

OK so what of it? It's a remake of a game released over 10 years ago? How is this back to their awesome Sonic days? It's the same game just with better graphics...how about a good sonic game for once?

Sonic Unleashed, Sonic Colours, Sonic Rush, Sonic Generations, Sonic CD, Sonic 4 Episode 2 and now Sonic Adventure 2.

I thought Colours & Generations were ok, but both mixed with great bits and poor bits.  I thought Sonic Episodes sucked, which made me sad.

I think of your a fan of the DC Sonics then this is well worth it, but why can't they just make another great Sonic game?  Why?  What's stopping them?!

Sonic 4 Episode 1 sucked but Episode 2 is a lot better.

If they're going to make something relative to Sonic 4 Episode 2 then no, even tho it's better than S4E1.

[NintendoKing]

I have been playing Sonic CD and Sonic 4 part 1 & 2 on my iPhone. I am very happy with these updates to Sonic. Sonic CD is still one of my all time favorite Sonic video games!