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Sonic Forces Lets You Create A Custom Character

Can you top Big the Cat and Cream the Rabbit?

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In addition to playing as Sonic, you'll be able to create and play as your own character in the upcoming Sonic Forces.

Sega announced the news today with a new trailer, which you can watch above. It highlights many of the customization options available to you, including tweaking your body, color, gloves, footwear, and headgear.

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Now Playing: Sonic Forces - Custom Hero Trailer

We also get a peek at a custom character in action, as well as some of the gadgets you'll be able to use in the game, including a flamethrower and a grappling hook of sorts. The video concludes with another quick look at Forces' modern-style, 3D Sonic action, and a 2D side-scrolling segment.

Sonic Forces, formerly known as Project Sonic 2017, is one of two new Sonic games being released this year, along with Sonic Mania. Like that game, Forces is slated for release on PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. For more, check out the gameplay videos we've seen that show a city under siege and Forces' version of the Green Hill Zone.

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holy crap this is gonna make a lot of gross furries Super happy

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Coolsteel the Hedgeheg... Purple, the cool kind...

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"Can you top Big the Cat and Cream the Rabbit?"

LOL...

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That's pretty cool

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I wonder how possible it will be to make Manic, None of my OCs are furries....If a mecha hedgehog was possible I could say that's my MC in a robo suit.

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i'm just gonna go ahead and recreate all the comic characters from before the reboot that is currently sending the comic into cancelled territory.

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@Degalon: Archie still release that mess?! Quality of that comic went down since issue 50.

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@Pupchu: They kept it going and it was pretty good up until Sonic Chronicles came out then all the lawsuits bc of it ripping off the comic characters so much and now the entire comic got wiped, DC Reboot style, a few years ago and now its dying because it's basically more like the games which is exactly the opposite of why the comic was so successful. All the characters and history are removed so its ONLY game characters and whatever replacements they can make now, but anything before the reboot is offlimits. So the entire history of the comic is off limits now. Oh and Sonic isn't allowed to emote anymore, as mandated by Sega. he can't cry, be angry, show any kind of emotion other than being cocky and happy.

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This feature will definitely boost sales.

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That community is gonna be TERRIFYING.

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The Sonic fanfiction community just fainted in joy.

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@Thanatos2k: Think they did more than that. XD

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Whats bad is, even if this game was the best goddamn Sonic game ever made, sold 8.9m copies, won a f'in Oscar, Emmy, and somehow a Tony award Sega would STILL go back to the drawing board and completely remake Sonic in it's next game.

Jesus christ Sega, just make it SONIC, don't add gadgets, don't add werehogs, don't add upside down shifty bits.

But if you DO add those things, stick with them and actually make a decent game. Like Sonic Lost Worlds wasn't a terrible game, it was rather interesting, but NOPE it's out the damn door with the rubbish.

Sonic Generations? Pfft, screw that make Sonic Lost world, then ignore that and make Sonic Boom, then ignore that and make Sonic Forces. You have to give Sonic a chance Sega, you have to let it actually sit in one type of game with one type of mechanic.

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@jasperwest: THIS SO MUCH, I'M SO ANNOYED THAT THEY'VE IGNORED THE SUCCESS AND POSITIVE REACTIONS OF GENERATIONS AND COLOURS THAT I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS. I HOPE THIS CREATE A CHARACTER THING IS OPTIONAL AND NOT FORCED DOWN OUR THROATS.

Lets hope Sonic Mania doesn't have any hidden BS in it.

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I'm sure Chris-chan will love this. lol

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I'm going to make a female Shadow character!

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It begins... Sega could make a mint selling diaper and inflation DLC.

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i would, but i already like knuckles, even i don't follow since the n64 days.

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I don't belive it that sega had listened to fans, So now we can make characters from archie comics and migthy armadillo and ray? :D

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This will absolutely open the door for plenty of edgy, cringe-inducing fan characters to crawl out of the woodwork. As if the Sonic fanbase doesn't have enough of those. But for what it is, this customization option looks pretty decent and fun to mess around with. Not the third play-style I was hoping for, but it looks nice enough. I can dig it.

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Oh god the furies will be all over this now making their Fursona's in it and posting it on-line everywhere. God help us all!

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That actually sounds very cool.

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The character creation is cool and his gameplay in 3D reminded me of Ratchet and Clank.. then they showed 2D gameplay and i lost all excitement.

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Cold Steel incoming

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@stage4saiyan: pssssh... nothing personel, kid

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@Abomination713: You and 578383 other people will, for the lulz.

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Deviant Art is canon now!

Long live Nightshade the Super Enchilada-Werehog!

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@baron_machina: I always enjoy Googling my name and then "the Hedgehog" after - it always yields hilarious results.

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prediction: Flop, big fat belly flop into a pool of jello in flop city....united states of flop.....eh, there's a place where all flops go to die....it's Flop City USF

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@darthrevenx: ....I don't think that's a prediction sir. :-) Predictions must have a chance of being wrong....

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@Khasym: it's still gonna flop.....and they'll be singing the song....

welcome to flop city where the graphics suck and the gameplay bores......take me down to the flop city where the graphics suck and the gameplay bores...oh won;t you please take me to hell......lolz

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This is basically Sonic Generations 2 with character creation! :) :)

Plus Sonic Mania looks awesome too,

omg, maybe this is the year Sonic redeems himself?

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@sellingthings: My name is Chronic, and I am the highest hog alive. When I was a child I saw my mother getting high by something impossible. My father went to rehab for her overdose. Then an accident made me the impossible. To the outside world, I’m an ordinary hedgehog, but secretly I use my dope to fuel crime and find others like me. And one day, I’ll find who made my mother get high and get justice for my father. I am the hemp hog.

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@sellingthings: Seems like he took your idea and rolled with it.

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Look what the Furries have done

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