First Look at Holoska Level in Sonic Unleashed

1 November, 2008 21 March, 2025

Yesterday Sega gave us a new look at Mazuri and today thanks to Gamersyde we’ve been given our very first look at Sonic Unleashed’s arctic themed level: Holoska. Full credit goes to TSSZ news readers F0Xit who was first to send a News Tip into us, followed closely by Crazee and kwami.

The level starts on an usually wide track giving soniclots of scope to move left and right. He’s later funneled into a slippery looking half pipe section and finally is stopped by a closed door. The only 2D section in the video shows some higher vs lower routes. In one instance the player mistimes a jump and gets electrocuted by a badnick. Sonic then falls but not to his doom, simply to a lower part of the level which was extremeally refreshing to see.
Overall what little of the level that was shown looks a little barron compared to the highly detailed and densly compacted city stages. This could beby design to show just how vast the artic tundra of Holoska is but could prove a little boring to look at. No Werehog footage of the level was shown but it wouldn’t be hard to imagine him having to scale some ice cliff faces and beating up some frosty bad guys.

Chack out the trailer here and be sure to keep an eye out for more trailers. What do you guys think about how much we’ve seen of the game up to press; are you happy to be given such an insight so you can make a more informed decision about the game or would you rather Sega not be so liberal with the level previews to retain some of the mystery of discovering what the levels are like?

24 Comments

This sucks!!! I was the first to post the comment that informed about the game clip!!! WHY didn’t I received any credits? T_T …i deserved it!

Did you ask them to put it in the article?

Sry @ gabsonic I feel yur pain lol
But “THEY DONT LIKE WHEN YOU DO THAT” haha jk
TSSZ ROKKZ

@gabsonic: Hey! Why worry? I was the first to report the new Africa level trailer by a youtube video I made. Yet, they used the link that Aqua Team sent to tssz. Yet…
I never complained. Not only was I still mentioned, but I am actually happy that both myself and Aqua Team were mentioned in alerting tssz.
So just play the video and chill. (and watch the ice stage video)

I kinda complained ROFL
but it’s ok because the fact still stands that we all wanna be………..
FIRST @ TSSZ! lol (I’m hooked.)
Also the games looking to be worth WAY MORE THAN 50 BUCKS (o well lol)
But there’s only ONE PROBLEM.
Is anyone else mad that the game won’t be out for Thanksgiving?

You saw the news from Gamestop, Aqua?

Isn’t going to be released BEFORE Thanksgiving?
The only one coming later is the PS3 version. According to Gamestop, it’s December 12th. Wii and PS2 is the 18th and 360 is the 24th.
Why wouldn’t they release them all at the same time?

what news?

OH YEA I SAW THAT, but isnt thxgiving on the 22nd?

Thanksgiving is the 27th this year.

WTF is going on here? Thanksgiving? rofl
/Holidays

O yea I asked somebody. lol
Man I feel so STUPID I didn’t think I’d be able to play SU with my family this year
My bad. haha

Man, it’s nice to see my name up there.
I had this video since…this morning? Then I saw it mentioned at CS, so I updated TSSZ about it. Anyway, the spoilers don’t bother me. The story is a complete surprise, and besides…we only know what the levels look like from 30-40 sec snippets(apart from Mykonos).
As far as information…I mentioned it at CS, but does anyone else believe it possible that the medals help unlock the final day and night stages and not individual stages in each world?

@Crazee My hypothesis is that w/o ALL THE MEDALS (or at least, like, 80%) you will only complete the game w/o going Super Sonic at the end. But get enough medals, and SUPER SONIC FOR THE EPIC WIN HAHA
(Theory) Get ALL THE MEDALS, AND…….
Super WEREHOG, MAYBE??????????????

Why does this level have sonic running?! Shouldn’t he trip on the ice like he did in Sonic X? Jeez, they should’ve made like a snowboard part or somethin here…wait, how do imagin the Werehog’s gonna be like in this level?

Did anybody notice Sonic only loses 20-25 rings when he gets hit, and not all of them?
Doesn’t look like he’s given a chance to pick them back up, either.

gabsonic, I totally missed your comment as I only looked at the ‘News Tips’ sent in. I’ll be more vigilant in future. You can have your name in bold in this message as a small consolation.

Bold? lol

Medals? What you talking about Aqua Team?!

WDF Watch the Ice level gameplay and at the end, sonic collects a MEDAL!
I forgot where I saw it, but SEGA said that collecting medals unlocks levels.
I think they said it on GameSpot a while ago.

Ok… I learned my lesson… NEVER COMMENT IN TSSZ cuz some other guy will simply steal your news! Ok, I got it now…

Oh i just noticed, my name is in BOLD! How sweet of you… ~_~’ (oh by the way thnx for the sarcastic comment, I completely needed it…)

lol, gabsonic, I was just having a bit of fun. Seriously now, if you or anyone else leaves links to new stuff in the comments rather than send in a News Tip I really will endeavour to notice it, write up a story and give proper credit where it’s due. It really was just an oversight of mine. Please accept my full apology.
Aqua Team, Super Werehog is a scary thought!