Let's hope they aren't trying to revive a long dead corpse. Sonic's first three games, from what I have heard, were great. Heck, I've been lucky enough to get to play a little bit of the original Sonic game, and I loved it. But when it came to the "ZOMG! 3D!" stuff...well, you know what happened.
But I'm with Spit on this. They could get Sonic to be great once more, instead of being killed slowly before our eyes. If this "restart" fails, then hopefully Sega will see that Sonic will not be able to run again (huzzah for bad puns!

) and just stop trying to rape the poor guy. We'll just have to wait and see, I guess... *sighs*