SEGA SUPERSTARS TENNIS MONTH: START-UP SEQUENCE EXPOSED
EXCLUSIVE! Here’s what happens when you put the SEGA Superstars Tennis disc into an Xbox 360 and prepare to play the game:
First of all, there’s the SEGA logo. It looks sharp and vibrant on that black background!
Then there’s the logo for developer Sumo Digital! If Sumo Digital’s involved, we know we’re in for a Triple-A thrill ride!
Then there’s the logo for Criware! If Criware’s involved, we know we’re in for a game built on a fully stable middleware environment!
Then there’s a logo for the game itself. Thank god they’re not just re-using old Sonic Adventure artwork. This is totally custom – clearly the budget for this production was BLOCKBUSTING.
Then you get to watch the intro movie! The intro movie tells you to “press start” to skip it, although it’s such a great intro movie we doubt you’ll want to! In fact, we can’t EVER imagine a time when we would want to skip this intro movie. It’s THAT GOOD!
Then, once you press start, up comes the proper in-game press start screen with its glorious blue sky background. Come back tomorrow to see what happens AFTER this subsequent start request…
filed in SEGA SUPERSTARS TENNIS MONTH on Mar.11, 2008
March 11th, 2008 on 4:56 pm
i’ve stained my pants.
March 11th, 2008 on 5:02 pm
Sumo seem to do Sega better than most of Sega these days, aside from Maybe AM2, and that other UK team that did Sega Rally.
I’m assuming this is something to do with someone high up in Sega Europe knowing what we want, if this is true, they should be in charge of all console development for Sega, and leave the Japanese AM teams making arcade games.
…as for the SEGA USA people – have they actually done anything good since the STI/Megadrive/Early Saturn years?
March 11th, 2008 on 5:56 pm
Yeah Sumo, Sega Racing Team and whoever did VF5 seem to be the only Sega teams who can make decent Sega games these days.
Someone needs to break into Sega Japan and break Yu Suzuki out of the dark dungeon they’ve got him locked up in.
March 11th, 2008 on 7:32 pm
Blue sky!!! yess! yes! yessss!
if only the real sky looked that blue and beautiful.
March 11th, 2008 on 11:39 pm
“Tripe A thrill ride”. Sounds amazing… but maybe a bit smelly.
Highlight of my day, making a “ha ha you made a typo” post.
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