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Prerelease:Shadow the Hedgehog

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This page details prerelease information and/or media for Shadow the Hedgehog.

Director Takashi Iizuka presents the three versions of Shadow The Hedgehog, while giving a smile that shakily sends mixed signals about his game.

Shadow the Hedgehog was an attempt to attract a "teen audience" to the franchise, where they wanted to explore more of the character's dark nature while trying out the new "gun mechanic". Overall reception of the game was considered to be heavily divisive, where fans thought that it signaled the downfall of the franchise before the advent of Sonic 06.

Concept Art

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Storyboard for the game's opening Sequence, from SEGA's U.S. archives.[1]

Music & Unused Tracks

During the production of the game, Jun Senoue went into the project creating songs that fit the game's radically different atmosphere, much closer to metal.[2] Because of this, Jun started reaching out to other, smaller artists in order to create tracks for the game that fit the darker atmosphere, giving the artists a general outline while giving them mostly free-reign.[3]

Broken

"Broken" by the band "Sins of a Divine Mother" was originally intended to be the game's Hero ending theme, previously being released on the band's MySpace page in 2005. Jun Senoue originally contacted the band's producer & bassist, Danny Parker & Kyle Keiderling respectively, in order to try & get the track into the game. However, the band had already broken up & neither Jun or the two contacted were able to track down the band's lead vocalist, Wylie Biechler, in order to receive permission. Danny & Kyle suggested they record a track for the game with their new band, A2, in a style very similar to "Broken", which would end up becoming the track "The Chosen One".[4] The track actually ended up in a prototype of the game from September 16th, 2005, just one month before the game's release date, suggesting that "The Chosen One" was made extremely late in the game's development.

E Rating Cut

Rumors have persisted that the original English script was more "mature", featuring much more swearing than there is in the final game (i.e. Sonic saying "Hate to piss off G.U.N." instead of "Hate to tick off G.U.N.") However, Jason Griffith, the voice of Sonic & Shadow in the game, does not recall ever recording any sort of lines like that. However, he does mention that he does recall recording alternate takes for lines which censored the swearing, such as saying darn instead of damn. None of these takes have ever surfaced, as the game uses the original uncensored takes.[5]

E3 2005 Trailer

This is the E3 trailer for the game.

  • There is no HUD.
  • There are no Street Cones at 0:23. (You can tell here since objects are visible)
  • The Taxi is in a different position, the brown object on the left of the mailboxes is missing, the tree was replaced by a phone booth and there are shelves on the buildings to the left at 0:24.
  • The 2nd Battleship in a different position at 0:25.
  • Some parts are different at 0:26.
  • We can move Shadow's body around while Skydiving instead of straight forward at 0:37.
  • Seems to be the end of the Sky Troops but there's no Jewel-like objects at 0:48.
  • Enemy on the Square-like platform while the rest seems mostly barren at 0:49.
  • The last Battle Ship is much closer since there is Grass on the bottom at 0:51.
  • The blood colour is different.
  • The missile launcher reticle is different.

Trailer

This is a trailer for the game.

  • There is no HUD.
  • The Chaos Blast was blue instead of red.
  • The missile launcher reticle is different.

Uncut Opening

An early version of the opening movie done by Blur Studio. This was uploaded on Vimeo by Cemre Ozkurt for his portfolio.

  • Does not cut to any to any other FMVs made, instead being one large video of the Black Arms attacking Westopolis.
  • Because of this, the scenes that are also in the final are extended here, and connect with one another.
  • Uses placeholder music & sound effects from The Chronicles of Riddick & Star Wars.