Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is a Nintendo DS console role-playing game based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. It is being developed by Canadian RPG developer BioWare, who is now part of Electronic Arts. The game is scheduled to be released in 2008 in North America and Europe.

A preview of the game was featured in the February 2008 issue of the Nintendo Power magazine, giving details on the game features and confirming its name. It also confirmed that there will be 11 playable characters.

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is an RPG that will be fully controlled by touch screen control. There will not be any random battles, you will be able to see an enemy on screen. The battles will be turned based. Each character in the game will have a specific ability, such as Tails being able to fly. The player can have 4 party members at a time, and will be able to split into teams during the game.

Special attacks in the game will be made by tapping and dragging on indicated locations on the touch screen of the Nintendo DS. This are done by "Fatigue Points", which are similar to "Magic Points" (MP) in past RPG's. The player will choose which attributes to increase when leveling up, and you will be able to buy special attacks using rings as currency.

The game will have two acts, one set in a standard Sonic area, while the other one will take in a "darker world". There will be sidequests in the game.

After defeating Doctor Eggman, Sonic went on vacation for two years. He gets a call from Tails to inform that Knuckles has been kidnapped by a group of Marauders, and 6 Chaos Emeralds are missing.

According to BioWare, Eggman will not be the main villain, he will be a "more credible bad guy again". The game will have fully animated cutscenes.

Did you say EA is in charge of it?

BioWare.

I have heard of this for quite some time, before it had a name, it sounds good, I hope it is like the Mario & Luigi games, and this will be the 3rd sonic game made by a Canadian company am I correct?

Shame they stole the name from Oblivion. 😛

BioWare, did they not do the Sonic Rivals games?

Originally posted by ESB -1138
BioWare.

Did you ever play Marvel Nemesis?

It is being developed by Canadian RPG developer BioWare, who is now part of Electronic Arts.

Originally posted by Cosmic Cube
I read EA somewhere in there...

Did you ever play Marvel Nemesis?

Yes awful game.

Originally posted by ESB -1138
It is being developed by Canadian RPG developer BioWare, who is now part of Electronic Arts.

A Sonic RPG would be great, though.

Originally posted by Cosmic Cube
EA shouldn't even be associated with an attempt at making anything other a Sports title. Everything else they've produced has ranged from terrible to unspeakably ghastly.

A Sonic RPG would be great, though.

Crysis and Dead Space...nuff said.

The Simpson's game for humor was great
They helped FRD develop the legendary Timesplitters series.
Harry Potter. 😂 I could not resist.

They made the critically acclaimed Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth series.

Originally posted by ESB -1138
Crysis and Dead Space...nuff said.

I'll go by my experience, and retain my inclination. Everything sucks.

Originally posted by ESB -1138
They made the critically acclaimed Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth series.

Wow, turned based, no thank you. 😬

Originally posted by @st
Wow, turned based, no thank you. 😬

Originally posted by ESB -1138
They made the critically acclaimed Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth series.

Nothing special, I have both games and the expansion pack.

Starcraft, and from what I've seen from Halo Wars so far, is loads better.

Yeah, when I think Sonic, I think of standing in place and taking turns. 🙄

Originally posted by @st
Yeah, when I think Sonic, I think of standing in place and taking turns. 🙄

Ultima Online, Command & Conquer series, Medal of Honor series, James Bond series (including Golden Eye 007), and Battlefield series and BioWare is making the game which is a part of EA. BioWare has KoToR, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect. Those games alone tells me that this will be a great Sonic game.

Originally posted by @st
Yeah, when I think Sonic, I think of standing in place and taking turns. 🙄

Originally posted by ESB -1138
Ultima Online, Command & Conquer series, Medal of Honor series, James Bond series (including Golden Eye 007), and Battlefield series and BioWare is making the game which is a part of EA. BioWare has KoToR, Jade Empire, and Mass Effect. Those games alone tells me that this will be a great Sonic game.