Despite its critical acclaim (and record pre-orders), it bounced about the charts rather erratically, going up and down, and got price reductions pretty quickly. 3D remixes of classic Mega Drive Zones allowed for Modern Sonic’s boost play, while Classic Sonic could plough through 2D renditions of stages from Sonic Adventure and Sonic Unleashed. A game made for the blue blur’s 20th Anniversary, this was a Greatest Hits collection to truly admire. The following year, Sonic Generations would vastly improve on the Colours/Unleashed formula to the point of almost perfecting it. Our World Exclusive Reveal of Sonic Colours’ Cutscene was HUGE – revisit it here!.Fans loved it too, as the Wii and DS game managed to clock around 2 million sales shortly after launch. And the Wisps felt like the first true effective set of ‘power ups’ created for a 3D Sonic game, adding a layer of strategy and exploration to the mix. A more thoughtful platformer than the overly-speedy ‘Simon Says’ approach of Sonic Unleashed, with original environments that made the series feel fresh (Tropical Resort is a fantastic opening Zone). Sonic Colours was an entertaining Wii adventure that – if you ignore the cheesy story – showed a lot of promise for the Sonic series. In terms of the mainline platforming series, the decade started off on a good footing. There was definitely no shortage of Sonic the Hedgehog video games during the 2010s, with multiple console spinoffs such as Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, mobile titles like Sonic Dash and various Mega Drive and Dreamcast re-releases being of considerable quality. Prototypes, spinoffs, rumours and drama! 2010s in Games This chapter is all about the video games side of things – from Sonic Colours and Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing in 2010 right on through to Team Sonic Racing in 2019, and all of the bits in-between. We’ve decided this time around, to cover the decade in segments. Let us take your hand and chuck you down this hellish warp zone we call a Retrospective, and blitz past all the crazy stuff that’s happened since 2010. But don’t worry, The Sonic Stadium is here to help you remember. Well, that was a decade and a half wasn’t it? So much has changed in the last ten years, it’s difficult to wrap it all up in a very succinct way.

Sonic 1 beta remake sprites