Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood offers up overproduced trailer

by Kevin Kelly { Aug 22nd 2008 at 6:30PM }

This has to be one of the most incredibly overproduced game trailers in existence. It's like SEGA and BioWare hired the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack producer and forced him to write a full-blown soundtrack for Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. Sonic has never had so much fanfare, especially on such a small system.

Zack nailed this in his hands-on impression, and the gameplay backs it up, but it looks like you could have dropped any ol' characters into this real-time RPG. When we hear the name Sonic, we tend to think hyper-speed running and gold rings flying all over the place. Call us old fashioned.

Still, this trailer is sure to wake you if you're in that end-of-the-week coma.

Tags: BioWare, Sega, Sonic, Sonic-Chronicles, Sonic-Chronicles-The-Dark-Brotherhood, The-Dark-Brotherhood

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:37PM

This game is going to be very good... finally a good Sonic since Sonic Adventure and Sonic and The Secret Rings.

I hope it can deliver. The idea might be weird, but same thing happened with Super Mario RPG and nos is one of the best RPG's.

WhoMe @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:55PM

Hey man, where is your avatar from again? kthxbai

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:56PM

Protoman, from Megaman the series.

Zertoss @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:01PM

Are you kidding? It's obviously Rash from Battletoads.

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:09PM

Sometimes I forgot that the majority of gamers here started in the PS1/N64 era.

I feel old. =(

WedgeTalon @ Aug 22nd 2008 10:12PM

I NEVER thought I'd see the day when someone would ask who Protoman was.

Next they'll ask what a Q*Bert is. :(

Superstar90 @ Aug 22nd 2008 11:50PM

WHO THE FUCK IS QBERT? IS HE IN SMASH BROS?

Foetoid @ Aug 23rd 2008 12:08AM

Q*Bert?

This is probably very poor of me, but i've been playing games for 23 years and i don't know who Q*Bert is.

*hangs his head in shame*

Superstar90 @ Aug 23rd 2008 12:24AM

He's some little ball guy with like a nose/mouth thing. And he jumps up and down these like cube pyramid things.

Tiptup300 @ Aug 23rd 2008 2:06AM

Sonic the fastest thing ALIVE (except this time!)

#28 @ Aug 25th 2008 1:58AM

Secret Rings sucks more crap than a scat lover.
Honest to god, I bought that game at launch and immediately wanted to kill myself.
The game suffers from a lack of anything resembling gameplay. Also, you use about three or four movements/ buttons for the ENTIRE game.
And it blasts awful, awful progressive rocky bullshit music at you everytime you load the thing.

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:40PM

Is this the new Duke Nukem Trilogy Trailer? Also they didn't need that fancy soundtrack.They could've just used Requiem for a Dream/Lacrimosa since they make everything sound EPIC!

Shmil @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:59PM

That or pull something from The Planets
Mars ftw

Rob Accomando @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:42PM

Thundering music and fancy text = "Overproduced"?

Anyway, it's funny how they make it look "Epic" when it will probably be mediocre at best.

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:46PM

This game is being developed by BioWare. They have a very good lineup: Baldurs Gate series, Mass Effect, KOTOR, Neverwinter series.

If someone can make a good RPG with Sonic, is BioWare.

Red Leader @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:12PM

@ Fernando

Not even BioWare can save Sonic now. It's over man. Game over. Sonic is a joke.

Now I'm sad.

Mr.ESC @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:18PM

“Not even BioWare can save Sonic now. It's over man. Game over. Sonic is a joke”.

I say Sonic isn't as good as it used to be but it's not death unless Sega decides to move to the M+ stuff and pull the plug on their mascots like what they did to Alex Kid.

That day would be sad I mean Sega had many original concepts it would be sad to see them go the way of every developer doing Bloody FPS with Brown filters for 12 year olds and social rejects like everyone and their Grandma.

Zertoss @ Aug 22nd 2008 10:43PM

Besides, Sonic collected enough rings in both of the Rush games on the DS to earn a few continues.

He'll be back, he just has to start the current world over from Act 1, which of course means a sequel to Sonic 2006. I expect it to rip its story straight from the Cell games.

343 Guilty Fart @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:48PM

Wow, no kidding it's overproduced. All it needs is a movie announcer voice to say "In a world where... etc."

BigD145 @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:18PM

In a world where worlds are worlds, men are men, and women are women. There stands a standing man that stands.

Coldbrand @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:38PM

They already did that actually. Seriously.

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:48PM

The battle system looks excellent... kinda like Elite Beat Agents.

Joe @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:48PM

Make them feel your POW moves!

I think that's my new slogan.

Blank-Mage @ Aug 23rd 2008 4:36AM

"Show them your (POW) moves! FALCON PUNCH!"

Mr.ESC @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:55PM

Too JRPG-ish for Bioware don't ya think.

Eh still feel the whole concept is hard to digest but I still like Sonic and this is Bioware.

Coldbrand @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:59PM

WREAK HAVOC

*tap* *tap* *tap*

General Gweevus @ Aug 22nd 2008 6:59PM

It's so big it slowed Viddler down to a crawl.

Also, Day 1 purchase.

Mr Khan @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:11PM

I thought it was only me and my lacking-RAM PC that was having trouble with the Viddler player

It goes at like 2 fps, but the audio stays on task, so its like watching a slideshow

Mr Khan @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:15PM

Knuckles > All

Now and forever

And ANOTHER September game? When will people learn that you can't beat Wario Land: Shake It?

Samba De Amigo, and now this

Of course, this game i will get by Christmas at least

Mr.ESC @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:30PM

You know there are some great games coming that I really looked forward too but I don't feel hyped like in 07 maybe is the fact I'm getting older or that the stuff MS added to the water to make you feel hyped in 07 disappeared.

So far my list is Gears 2, Silent Hill 5,Fallout 3 and Fable 2.

Plus Megaman 9,Castle Crashers, Chrono Trigger,Sonic and Wario land.

Mr Khan @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:54PM

Sounds pretty epic to me

Maybe its because all the hype drained out early this year. First half of the year got GTA, Smash Bros, MGS, Mario Kart

I don't know. I feel kinda drained myself, despite the fact that my greatest wish of more Wario Land has come true

treqie @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:26PM

The name.. it's ridicilous. The dark brotherhood? yeah that sounds so Sonic:ish.

Blank-Mage @ Aug 23rd 2008 4:43AM

At this point, Sonic could use some time being not-Sonic-ish. For the record, I lost hope when Shadow the Hedgehog came out, and mercifully killed my hardcore Sonic fan pride when they introduced Silver. He's a telekinetic white hedgehog from the dystopian future. How did they green-light that?

(Side note - Sonic Rush was just okay enough to make me hope again, I think so Unleashed can crush it again.)

Nigeria @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:27PM

I really don't see any game bettering this during the winter. All the elements are in place for this to become a great game, maybe one of the greatest games. This has taken on event status, for me anyway.

General Gweevus @ Aug 22nd 2008 8:15PM

Finally, someone's making some sense.

You and me both.

Kenkaze @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:40PM

This just reminds me why I don't really care about the franchise anymore...

Zorink @ Aug 22nd 2008 7:50PM

What is the color of the night?

Psaakyrn @ Aug 22nd 2008 8:21PM

Brown!

Squirrel3D @ Aug 22nd 2008 9:17PM

Once I saw characters that debuted in Sonic Adventure and it's sequel in this trailer....that was the end of it for me. Thanks agian Sega, another reason why Sonic The Hedgehog is a joke.

Only Unleashed remains in question.....it's the last game that still has me on the fence. I'm am old school sonic fan like many of you, and if Unleashed becomes crap, I'm gonna quit being a Sonic fan.

Blank-Mage @ Aug 23rd 2008 4:37AM

Werehog.

Trippy Haps @ Aug 22nd 2008 10:08PM

"You might get taken by surprise...

"...But you'll be ready".

Ummm.

Foetoid @ Aug 23rd 2008 12:09AM

Am i the only one who loves Sonic and the Secret Rings?

Blank-Mage @ Aug 23rd 2008 4:37AM

Yes.

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 23rd 2008 10:47AM

Sonic and The Secret Rings is the best 3D Sonic since Sonic Adventure...

Just think: How many Sonic games were developed in the Gamecube and PS2? And then the Sonic 360/PS3.

The only good reviewed 3D Sonics are Sonic Adventure and Sonic and The Secret Rings. Is a great games, with great graphics and gameplay. The only mistake is that at the beggining Sonic is to slow, but after a few stages, it becomes really fast.

I personally love The Secret Rings.