Whatever you may think about the Sonic games the music has always been a high point managing to stay fresh and interesting for most of Sonic’s 20 years. From the simple yet catchy melodies of the early 90’s Mega Drive/Genesis console offerings, to the more recent soft rock approach of the late 90’s to now where we have the latest evolution in the sound of Sonic in Colours which I can only seem to define as a mix between a full orchestral and techno.

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Rules and entry details after the break

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Urtheart has already weighed in with a new year message but I thought I’d better poke my head up and say hi as I haven’t posted in almost two weeks.

2010 was a great year for Emerald Coast, I finally got a site design I’m happy with, we added the amazing artistic talent of Nemain to the staff, we’ve strengthened our ties with the community and sister site Sonic Wrecks… and I got to go to Japan for two weeks. Okay that last part had nothing to do with the site.

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Well Urth be here, currently sitting at the EC lair, thinking far too much about the future.
First off, Happy New Year, to celelbrate, New Years day from Noon GMT onward, Livestreaming Urth is back, dunno if I’ll be arting or gaming at the moment but tune in anyway.

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The Sonic Riders series has baffled me, the first game was terrible and then they brought out Zero Gravity which was even worse at this point I honestly thought that someone at SEGA had woken up and smacked the person who came up with the idea round the head with a wet fish and then fired him, out of a cannon, into the sun. Alas this did not happen as we now have the third instalment of what I fear is turning into a continuing series, but this time there’s something different.

Free Riders is a exclusive launch title for the Kinect, the new motion sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360.

So does this new control system make the game any better than it’s predecessors or does it fall flat?

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Sonic 4 was everything the fans asked for and yet somehow I didn’t like it.

Then there was Colours, a game aimed at the little kiddies, yet somehow this is the one title I’ve looked forward to, this first for a while in the Sonic series.

So considering I was the only EC crew member who hadn’t played it in advance did it live up to my expectations, rather critical as they are?

In short no, they surpassed them, by a long way.

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Sonic Adventure is one of those games that has made a lasting impression on the series, first released in 1999 as a launch title for the short lived (and much loved) Dreamcast. It was the first Sonic game to be fully 3D it sold over 2.5 million copies and brought Sonic the hedgehog back to the living room of many old fans. The game was then re-released as a directors cut in 2003 for the gamecube and PC with a lukewarm reception mostly due to it no having aged well, and now we have it re-released once again this time for Xbox Live, and Playstation Network, the question now is, has the game faded any more from it’s last re-release?

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Well first off is some important news for you guys. Anyone a fan of Urtheart’s Boombox or EC Airwaves? Or even that special edition of Boombox which saw Nemain invade? Want more? Well there will be a special SSR show on the 5th November right after Turbo Drive Live featuring the whole EC crew (transportation permitting).

So what should you expect? Well the usual madness of course, we’ve already got a few things planned, and we have some prizes lined up, and we’ll be announcing our next major EC competition. Along with a huge selection of music from all 3 of us.

Next up is guest comics, we’re still always happy to accept them but we could use a couple for the next week so if you guys fancy shaping up again then feel free to send us stuff, you did a bang up job during the takeover so more is welcome.

But why do we need em? Click the more button for news.

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So yeah this weeks Just in Time might be a wee bit delayed… ask vger.

Instead we are going to bring you some art from the ever so lovely lass Ram the Dragon aka Sofia.

But do you want a picture just as awesome for one of your characters? Click the more button to find out how…

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During Radio Redux we mentioned 2 things:

1) People want an EC Plush Collection

2) There will be a special edition of the next DtN comic, what it is? You’ll have to wait and see.

However we’ll only be showing you it if you support us first! by Pre-Ordering the first EC plush collection free of charge!

Hit the jump button to see a preview of the EC plush Collection!

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