Sonic the Hedgehog is… a thing that exists. Nobody really knows why it still really exists, but it’s fanbase is made up from a unique groups of people. While the Sonic video games have been mostly terrible, the television show based on Sonic Boom has been doing quite well and isn’t bad at all.
Now Sega Group’s production arm is expanding into other Sega franchises with the help of Fear the Walking Dead producer Circle of Confusion. These new projects include Altered Beat and Streets of Rage. These Sega classics haven’t seen games in decades, but both have potential for solid television. Well, okay television at least.
“We look forward to seeing the centurion from Altered Beast rise from his grave, and the Streets of Rage heroes Adam, Axel and Blaze fight to take their city back,” said Stories International CEO Tomoya Suzuki.
Streets of Rage (part two is one of my favorite games ever) tells the story of a group of young cops who leave the force to clean up the streets from crime while wickedly cool music plays. It’s not a lot, but that lose story leaves the door open for a lot of neat ideas.
Altered Beast on the other hand is a bit weird. One of the launch titles for the Sega Genesis, and not a very good one, the game sees some Greek era (or thereabouts) heroes that are brought back from the dead to save some lady. Oh, and there they turn into animals with superpowers. The funny thing about this one is that at the end of the game it’s revealed that the entire thing was simply a big movie production.
Sega is also looking to get some more modern Dreamcast properties into development as well including: Virtual Fighter, Crazy Taxi and more. No word on the timeline for production, but if you’ll excuses me I need to get back to writing some spec scripts.
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