Sonic Unleashed Prototype Found
Tristan Oliver | November 3, 2009
To be Obtained by Community Researcher, Details Not Known
We want to pass along some potentially exciting news, especially to fans of Sonic Unleashed–it appears a prototype of the game has been found, and will be acquired by prominent collector and Sonic community researcher drx.
He dropped that line tonight on Sonic Retro in conjunction with a secondary announcement that he received prototypes from various editions of Sonic Riders and this year’s copy of Sonic and the Black Knight on display at the 2009 New York Comic-Con.
drx noted he will be receiving a XBOX360 prototype of Unleashed, but he did not disclose the date of the prototype.
However, being a collector of these types of discs is expensive, and for the community to learn anything from them, it may collectively have to pony up some money.
“I’m not pursuing having them dumped (it’s a costly process), but if anyone is interested, it would cost around $1500 for the five discs.,” drx said. “I can probably dump the PS2 protos separetely for around $200-$300 each,” referring to the PS2 prototype copies from the Sonic Riders franchise.
In the context of Unleashed, it may be worth it, depending on how old the prototype is and what can be learned about the game’s development process from it. For now, it is up to the Sonic research community to determine if they want to make the investment–literally–in such a chance. We will keep you informed of any significant developments on this matter.
Filed Under Sonic Fan Flash, Sonic Scene, Sonic Unleashed
Something just tells me the Werehog isn`t in the prototype
Interesting…I can’t wait to see what they find in THIS prototype!
What kinds of things are different?
Things like gameplay or things like story and cutscenes?
Or both?
@Edwin Shy: Yeah. He will.
Omega : yOu could be wrong if I`m right prototypes don`t have what`s in the final … totell the truth I`m not sure…
Oh wow. Cant wait.
Edwin Shy: He’ll be in there. Somewhat defeats the purpose of calling it Sonic UNLEASHED.
Keydown : It can still be called “UNLEASHED” without the Werehog basicly Sonic unleashes extreme speed so it could be still be called “Sonic Unleashed” without the werehog but I got no problem with the Werehog it`s just the sound of it … since the “were” animal thing has been done so many times but the Werehog kinda reminds of the Were-mole from Courage the Cowardly Dog ( that show was funny)
The whole point from the begining of Unleashed was to make Sonic cursed in a way. So they had to have had him in the prototype
key : you got a point there…
cool!
lucky whoever is buying it! 
@ Edwin Shy: You do know that the werehog is half of the game, right?
Oop, prototype hype time!
is a prototype like an earlier type off the game or just a secrect section off the game OR the whole game only quite differant? cool….
@blueblur
A prototype is an early copy of the game while it was was still in production. What it contains depends on the stage of production at which this prototype was made. (We don’t know this about the Unleashed prototype at the moment)
It could be a test level, the whole game or anything in between. It will probably contain bugs that didn’t exist in the final release.
If this is what I think it is, then we could be seeing some of the levels in the trailers the way they were meant to be played! Awesome find!
I bet they’ll find the electric shield along with many other item boxes.
How else would you be able to collect the rings in those loops?
With SEGA’s limited budget and time with these Sonic games, you can be sure that they had the idea of the Werehog long before this prototype.
Sounds intresting. I hope this guy dosen’t lie about this. Cus I really want to see a prototype of this game.
I’ve just got the demo of SU yesterday with Apotos day time stage.XD I can’t help it, but I love it. I really like SU, and it would be fun to see a prototype.
@Mike: When you preform a Sonic Boost, you attract nearby rings, even those in the loops in Chun-nan and Shamar.
Holy crap, time to donate Hidden Palace. This is interesting.
I remember that in one of the trailers sonic lost his rings, and it was the old fashion way (you know, rings scatter all over the place)…
But apparently, this wasn’t included in the final ps3/360 versions =O
um… wasnt the original version of the game was called WORLD ADVENTURE? i know it still is in japan but…
unleashed is a stupid name. sounds like friggin power rangers… but thats just my oppinion. other people think unleashed sounds cool I just dont. But those people can state their oppinions like I stated mine.
but all attempts to resolve any conflicts over my oppinion before they start aside, the werehog has always been in sonic world adventure from the begining. If he wasnt the game wouldve been shorter, not as good and it would have a giant piece of plot missing from it.
@silverpwns
Doesnt it just kill you how you cant see the rings be collected though? I actually thought you had to jump off the loop to get those. It took me from december when the PS3 one came out to about August to realize that I was getting those rings…
edge: No it wasnt called World Adventure in the begining. It was originally planned to be Sonic Adventure 3.
PROTOTYPE?
I’M GETTING A GERM OF AN IDEA HERE.
SONIC AND ALEX MERCER TEAM UP TO STOP DR. EGGMAN FROM RELEASING THE BLACKLIGHT VIRUS ON AN UNSUSPECTING PLANET.
TURN ALEX MERCER’S ARM INTO A CANNON. LAUNCH SONIC OUT OF IT.
RETAILING IN SUMMER 2011 FOR 59.99.
Jeff, you’re on to something. Call the move the Spinball Special.