Sonic Boom video game prequels for TV show.

• Position: What's New? - Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric - Brief article - Product/service evaluation

A new branch of the Sonic the Hedgehog universe has arrived with a fresh look and feel for Sonic, Tails, Amy, and Knuckles. The latest video games from Sega, Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric for Wii U and Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal for Nintendo 3DS, serve as prequels to the stories revealed in Sonic's first CG-animated series, which debuts this month on Cartoon Network. In these unique adventures, Sonic and his team work together to stop an ancient evil, Lyric, their most powerful enemy yet.

In Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric, Sonic and his friends encounter an ancient tomb sealed deep within an island, where the powerful, snake-like villain Lyric is released. The group must put aside their differences to save the world from Lyric's evil plan and his army of war-mongering robots. In Sonic Boom: Shattered Crystal, Amy discovers a secret...