Comments on: Review – Sonic Unleashed (Xbox 360 / PS3)

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By: Alun

Alun — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:31:14 +0000

Played the demo of this a few times now…absolutely shockingly bad IMO. Not even close to the old Sonic games – the old ones were never god because they were fast. They were good because they were challenging, well thought out levels with a great feel to the physics and handling of the character. Sonic Unleashed supposed ‘good parts’ are simply being rocketed from one checkpoint to the next with no actual platforming involved – I found it clumsy, boring and frustrating. The problem is that Sonic Team spend too much time making the game go as fast as possible and throwing in as many daft gimmicks as possible (whether that be awful secondary characters or werehog).

Sonic Adventures 1 and 2 were good games on the Dreamcast at the time, but need to be improved for the current generation, which just hasn’t happened. Frankly I just don’t think Sega have the skills to make a good Sonic game anymore, even fi it’s 2D – the DS games were considerably better but still nothing compared to the old games. I’d like to see another company take him on personally, whether it be 2D or 3D.

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:35:18 +0000

Something that I didn’t have room to mention in my review, but the thing that made Sonic Adventure really popular was that you were completely able to complete the game (albeit without the “Super Sonic” ending) with as many or as few characters as you wish.

I never like Amy Rose’s stages, that Robot guy scared the crap out of me, but it didn’t change my opinion of the game because I completed it with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Gamma and even Big.

If Sonic Unleashed was more like this, I might have been more favorable.

By: Spike_UK

Spike_UK — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:31:18 +0000

I haven’t played any of the recent sonic games but I have fond memories of the megadrive versions. I did play sonic adventure 1 on the dreamcast a lot (the 2nd wasn’t quite as good) and I thought they had some good ideas there. Well maybe not the levels with knuckles…

I reckon Sonic Team have only 2 choices if they want to have a successful sonic game.
Either make a new 2d sonic in 1080p for online download or swallow their pride and let another developer make a 3d sonic game.
What do you guys think they should do?

By: stedaman

stedaman — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:07:02 +0000

It annoys me Sega pesist in making on rails Sonic games when they quite clearly suck. how boring is a game controlled by itself and u move left or right or jump…..

Until they stop being retarded and make a real Sonic game, which includes the most important part; platforming…(not this shoddy attempt at including platforming) then all versions of Sonic made will suck .

They seriously should just do a Capcom with Megaman and make a classic 2d Sonic game for wiiware/psn/xbl. It would wipe the floor with on rails rubbish.

By: Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:27:27 +0000

1. Sonic 2 – Mega Drive
2. Sonic CD – Mega CD
3. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle – Gamecube

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:45:09 +0000

I’m glad you enjoy it so much.

I hope you’ve played Sonic CD, Sonic Pocket Adventure and Sonic 3 & Knuckles though.

By: SIlverlink

SIlverlink — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:45:13 +0000

Stop whining,

As a sonic fan i really enjoyed this game. The Speed levels are fun and i even like the platforming. This is the number 3 sonic game at this moment: #1: Sonic 1 #2 Sonic Adventure 2(b) # Sonic Unleashed.

By: Cutty

Cutty — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:56:14 +0000

Will Sega EVER make a Sonic game that doesn’t include anything that drifts away from the traditional formula?