SEGA explains why it brought Shadow movie version to Shadow x Sonic Generations

SEGA shared plenty of news about Shadow x Sonic Generations this week, but the big announcement was that Shadow from the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie will be featured in the game. A level will be included that’s inspired by the film and Keanu Reeves is even on board to voice the character for the DLC.

Series producer Shun Nakamura spoke about how this all came about in an interview with the PlayStation Blog. He started off by sharing the following:

“Since the game and the movie pack content are releasing before the film, we thought it would be ideal to have people to play the game and have their feelings about Shadow, then go out and see the movie. After experiencing the film, hopefully they would want to come back to play the game again as Shadow.

We imagined that with so many new Sonic fans who love the movies, perhaps this will be the perfect motivation to jump in and play Sonic x Shadow Generations if Shadow from the movie would appear.

Hopefully, this makes this holiday season and the Year of Shadow even more exciting for all types of Sonic (and Shadow) fans out there.”

Nakamura added that it wasn’t originally the plan to have Shadow from the movie in Sonic x Shadow Generations since the two worlds (game and film) are different, and that it would pose a challenge to integrate them. But given how both are coming out around the same time, SEGA saw an opportunity there and started working on development last fall.

You can find more information about the new Shadow x Sonic Generations DLC with Keanu Reeves here. If you’d like to read the full interview, you can do so here.